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Roscoe Holcomb & Wade Ward - "Moonshiner"

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Uploaded on Feb 9, 2009

For more information about this album, click here:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetai...

and for more information about Smithsonian Folkways , the non-profit record label of the national museum, click here:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.aspx

This video features Roscoe Holcomb's "Moonshiner" from the 1962 album 'The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward on Smithsonian Folkways.

Digital Downloads are available of this album in both MP3 and FLAC format.


©2008 Smithsonian Institution

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  • seymourbbest

    seymourbbest 2 years ago

    I had been searching for this voice my whole life. When I discovered Roscoe I was home.

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  • CMLovejoy

    CMLovejoy 4 years ago

    Love this music. Great stuff.

    If whiskey was in the form of music, this is what it would sound like.

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  • Patrick Twomey

    Patrick Twomey 2 months ago

    I love singing this song. The last line always gets a laugh.

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  • David Campbell

    David Campbell 10 months ago

    Roscoe Holcomb has such a pure voice . any one of his tunes he sings catches my attention. and im totally draw to the song till its over then on to the next one . their are many great old time musicians and Roscoe is up there with the best of them .

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  • danzigvi

    danzigvi 10 months ago

    man what a voice! I love this guy. Thats comin right from his soul.

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  • guy wolff

    guy wolff 1 year ago

    Did Ralph Rinzler record this ??? Great stuff!! Powerful ! Thanks Guy

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  • fatjud1

    fatjud1 1 year ago

    This is the old time high lonesome sound, i grew up listening to this kind of music.

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  • ceepatton

    ceepatton 2 years ago

    Big baby

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    in reply to myarmsbendback2000 (Show the comment)
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    ceepatton 2 years ago

    Other than his cds, check for Roscoe on wolfgangsvault website and digital library of appalachia website

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    in reply to KITCHENOFDISTINCTION (Show the comment)
  • LiquidDreams07

    LiquidDreams07 2 years ago

    Oh I just love this song!

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