# High Lonesome Sound

CREDITS: Photography, John Cohen; editor, Patricia Jaffee

SUMMARY: Presents folk music and spirituals sung by the mountain people of eastern Kentucky: an unemployed worker, coal miners, church congregations, and members of a miner's family. Explains that these songs are the means by which the people hold to their traditions and dignity while living in a depressed area. Includes performances by banjo-player Roscoe Holcomb and Bill Monroe

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1963
- Runtime: 30 min
- By: Cohen, John
- Genres: Education, Music, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/highlonesomesound)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/highlonesomesound?play=1)