Links & Bibliography, Remembering The High Lonesome

Links & Bibliography, Remembering The High Lonesome


www.johncohenworks.com — John Cohen's official website features a filmography, discography as well as a sampling of photographs and drawings.

www.folkways.si.edu/ — Folkways Records distributes several albums of music that John Cohen collected in his travels, including the music of Roscoe Holcombe. New Lost City Ramblers albums are also available on Folkways. Highly recommended is "Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads"

www.madisoncountyproject.org/ — A 2005 video and research project being carried out by Rob Roberts and Martha King. Their focus is on the singers and the history of documentation of the ballad-singing community of Madison County, North Carolina, where John Cohen filmed Dillard Chandler and others for End of an Old Song(1972).

www.rounder.com — Rounder Records also has released recordings from the New Lost City Ramblers.

www.archipelago.org/vol7-1/agee2.htm — Joel Agee, John Cohen's assistant on the The High Lonesome Sound, has written an essay recounting his experiences in Kentucky titled "Killing a Turtle."

Bibliography

Cohen, John. There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs. Powerhouse Books, 2001.
A collection of John Cohen photographs spanning the Beat Generation, the Abstract Expressionist movement, the Folk Music Revival, Cohen's travels through Appalachia and Peru, and many other subjects. A companion CD was released by Folkways Records. For details and ordering information, see www.johncohenworks.com