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Roscoe Holcomb - A Village Churchyard

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Uploaded by on Aug 13, 2009

Roscoe Holcomb - A Village Churchyard

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  • i totally agree. thank you for the info, sm3mb....can you recommend any books or other resources?

  • If it wasn't for justin townes earl i wouldn't know who this was. Amazing. simply amazing

  • gotta have a long attention span..glad that i do!!!!!

  • Just amazing.

  • A very beautiful song, just wish I could have heard Roscoe in person.

  • Man, it could be like 95 and humid and listening to this song would give me goosebumps like its 20, chilling stuff

  • "A Village Churchyard" is a hymn found in Baptist song books prevalent in Appalachia. Roscoe sings these words with such emotion because they give voice to the loss of his own mother. Before she passed, she begged him to stop drinking. He did. Roscoe's singing evokes 19th century American folk hymnody, particularly the slow, solemn lining tradition, and plainchant from the Middle Ages. No song/hymn, perhaps other than 'The Wandering Boy,' reveals who Roscoe was as this one does..

  • I think this is the best song I have ever heard.

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