# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roscoe-holcomb
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:45.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roscoe-holcomb"
name: "Roscoe Holcomb"
slug: "roscoe-holcomb"
description: "Roscoe Holcomb was an American singer, banjoist, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term \"high, lonesome sound\", coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen in 1959. It was meant to describe the singing style and vocal timbre of Holcomb. The \"high lonesome sound\" term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, although Holcomb was not, strictly speaking, a bluegrass performer."
tagline: "American musician (1911–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roscoe_Holcomb_1960s_LOC.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-09-05"
deathDate: "1981-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.46
  momentum:             3.333333333333333
  historical:           7.690030666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13199467/"
    handle:    "nm13199467"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/271137"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8"
    title: "روسكو هولكومب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Holcomb"
    title: "Roscoe Holcomb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fe6023f7-e015-45cb-9bc4-f3039f76622b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3817217"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump