{"product_id":"if-you-aint-right-get-right-todd-fife-roscoe-holcomb","title":"If You Ain't Right Get Right: Todd Fife: “Roscoe Holcomb”","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Roscoe Holcomb”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on a 9”x12” cradled wood panel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoal miner and all-around hardlife laborer, Roscoe Holcomb (actually Halcomb, but that is another story), was described as having that “high lonesome sound.”  Bob Dylan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eapparently many regard Dylan as a singer of note, described Holcomb's singing as possessing \"an untamed sense of control.\"  Holcomb once stated, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“there wasn’t hardly no way for a man to get work, so I asked God to give me something that I could do—that I could make a little money. . . . Twelve months from the time I started playing with this old fiddler I’d learned I guess about 400 tunes and could sing practically every one of them . . . I never did feel that I was a musician—never could make anything of it.”  Maybe he didn’t make much of it moneywise, but he had a huge influence on the 60’s folk revival. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Not bad for a “backporch musician” from Daisy, KY. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e$750\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Todd Fife","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51444000555224,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gradygoods.com\/products\/if-you-aint-right-get-right-todd-fife-roscoe-holcomb","provider":"Grady Goods Artpunk Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}