Moonshiner

[jdylan1984]

I agree my family is from the smokey mtns and this video seems a little offensive to me.Of course,as an intelligent individual you have to consider that for people who arent like us and didnt grow up like us and dont live a life like ours it is more of a romantic thought.Roscoe was singing more about the perspective of an outsider than himself.Anyone who knows,knows that he was happily married and didnt make moonshine.He was a miner and later a musician.Video stupid,song awesome!

[hajiketobu]

Beautifully filmed!

[dropthatwand]

Love this song. Bob Dylan's version is also very beautiful.

[Onbluewater]

Beautiful

[jetlamit]

Hi from france .... (bad english sorry)

I'am not american and i never dig some coal as Roscoe Holcomb ... but ...

Les chansons de R.Holcomb sont incroyables ... elle s'ecoutent avec l'ame et le coeur ... Great Great Great ^^

[LynnLillie]

Hey Buck! Yes, I like this video.

But, you will never be this real.

Lillie

[boritomc]

wow, this video is great!

[kattoy06]

hey thanks-- i found the dylan ones earlier, but i was just having a bit of trouble finding roscoe's version, which I like better as well.

[TheMountainGuy101]

I agree----Unfortunately for us folks in the mountains, Mr. Zimmerman did not give us much credit for a number of traditional songs he covered.

[kattoy06]

Anyone know the lyrics, or know where to find them online?

[lamancuso12]

Type in Moonshiner Lyrics into google, you get a lot. The bob dylan version is word for word I believe. I'd post them on here but there's a word count limit.

[userjdr]

@lamancuso12 the dylan version has a few diffrent lyics but just about the same

[userjdr]

@kattoy06 i have been a moon shiner ever since that i been born i drunk up all of my money and stilled up all of my corn ill go up some dark hallow and put up my moonshine still it will make you 1 gallon for a five dollar bill ill go up some dark hallow and get you some boose if the revenews dont get me no money then i loose come on all you moon shiners stand all in a row your looks so sad and lonsome your lonsome yes i know god bless them prity women i wish they all were mine there breath smell

[userjdr]

@kattoy06 so sweetly like good ole moonshine sorry for all the spelling erros

[WickidBoahd]

Any self proclaimed musician who's worth their shit should be able to play their instrument anywhere any time for any one... and still sound good. Roscoe, you could do that and sound amazing my hats of to you. R.I.P.

[johnbernays]

You'sea am a Reel Littel Miss Knowe It All, ain'Tcha?

[jjkcharlie]

This is good Mountain Music. Hell with Bluegrass. Heh'.

[fiddler317]

agreed. this is old time. bluegrass has too much flash, this simple stuff is the way to go.

[dixieken]

This is a damned fine video. From a moonshiner his self, top of the pile man!!!!

[soapisgoodfood]

That's Roscoe Holcomb

[dddanag]

this is brilliant! who is this guy?

[carrender33]

gives a kentucky boy chills

[Hharl1]

it gives an oklahoma boy chills too. NOBODY does it like Roscoe.

[davideli7879]

were in old KY are you from? the holler's of Pine Mt, had more than a few still's

[lamancuso12]

Where there's smoke...

[robingillan]

That song is stupendous but what's with all the ho's , Love a pretty woman but c'mmon

[Beabrasa]

thank you

[poontwangdrifter]

that is some"haunting" high lonesome!

[rmstudio]

part2. art thou. In your video at 0:38 That was one of my favorite movies. I commend you of getting the "Look" and feel of this era and music. Not something easy to do in such a short video... Well done

[rmstudio]

Le défaut de la reproduction sonore son gentil pour connaître un Français indiquerait une telle chose gentille au sujet de nous des Américains. Merci ! Juste aussi rare qu'il est pour qu'un Américain parle français. Viva Le France

[pyromanic78]

great stuff!!!! cheers for pointing me in this direction rm!

you fluent in french or are you blagging it :)

pyr

[rmstudio]

I am not fluent in it but I am learning it right now. Petit Parlez Français. I do speak spanish fluently and italian,English,Pretty good at chinese,as well as Korean.

[pyromanic78]

well done big yin!  iv enough trouble with english....but then i am scottish lol

[daisuki333]

voice of wasp!!!i love it from France!!!

God bless America,Hank williams and"Vive la France!"

[heldagrudge]

My grandpa was ottis Holcomb his nephew.

[uzefulidiot]

also liked the video: an homage not a period-piece. these were real people. all the old 20th century greats are now passed on or incredibly old, but they were once youngsters who probably raised a lil hell now and then

[lamancuso12]

Thank you for your responses

[ellajaysings]

The song is haunting, I also like the video. Maybe the kids are too clean & sweat-free for some but I'm more fascinated by the single camera with people looking at the camera as if it was also a (unwanted) guest. Camera angles, mood lighting & the characters' expressions-very nice from apparently young folk trying to pay tribute to an old-timer. There are many documentary videos available on old-time music, but this seems to be more a homage, maybe veneration to Mr. Holcomb and his music.

[atkinson4234]

i think your comment is direct, truthful, and relevant. great critique....kudos to you.

[chriscasbarro]

I like the music, of course, but I don't think Mr. Holcomb would have liked the connotation of the video. People made moonshine in these mountains to make a better life for their families and for themselves . . . they didn't do it to get laid. This video sheds a negative light on Appalachian folk-culture as I live it and know it. However, an intelligent person would know that the music means so much more than this silly video.

[lamancuso12]

I appreciate your experience with moonshining , but take into account the lyrics. Roscoe sings about the loneliness of his trade and about alcoholism. He romanticizes it: "God bless them all them pretty women, I wish they all were mine/ their breath smells so sweetly like that good old moonshine". Roscoe isn't singing about making a living or making a better life. He's singing a life dependent on alcohol, making it and consuming it.

And that is what the video makes relevant.

[zorroknowsbest]

What's with the all the pretty college students? Is this some sort of after party? Why aren't people sweating? Aren't they in a barn? Barn's are very hot and humid place! I'm just wondering because the camera work seems to imply that this scene is relevant to the music.

[banjolisterine]

good singing.

[georgepickow]

Rossie was our cousin, lived a few miles on up the road...his version of "Moonshiner" has a different tune than ours. JRP

[lamancuso12]

Is there another recording of the song? I got this one from Smithsonian Folkways from one of his albums "High Lonesome Sound."

[darthsnider1980]

Really? My grandmother is Mildred Holcomb his Neice. so hello cousin

[qwertyyui]

Roscoe is awesome but the video is lame.

[etheangel2220]

Let me hear that High Lonesome Sound

[ZoinkZ]

great voice and style.