John Cohen

A historian and folklorist within the custom of Alan Lomax, New Yorker John Cohen went a single step additional, forming a revival music group in the later ’50s called the brand new Lost Town Ramblers. Among the initial groups to construct such an work, the Ramblers pre-dated the complete acoustic coffeehouse-return to root base boom of the first ’60s. Branching out into film, Cohen produced The Great Lonesome Audio in 1964, a documentary that handled the coal mining cities of Kentucky and released the world most importantly to the professional banjo choosing of Roscoe Holcomb. After another film in 1974, THE FINISH of a vintage Tune, Cohen briefly shaped another revival music group before ultimately settling in being a college teacher and musicologist.