John Cohen
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John Cohen (born Queens, New York, 1932) is a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a photographer and filmmaker of note. Some of his best known images document the Abstract Expressionist scene centered around New York's Cedar Bar; Beat Generation writers during the filming of Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy; and the "old time" musicians of Appalachia. (The title of Cohen's 1962 film, High Lonesome Sound, has become synonymous with that music.) He has been one of the most important "discoverers" of traditional musicians and singers, finding and recording Dillard Chandler, Roscoe Holcombe, and many banjo players. His field recording of a Peruvian wedding song is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft.
He currently resides in the lower Hudson Valley of New York.
He has taught photography and drawing at Purchase College. He organized a gallery show of Peruvian retablos at the college as well.
The Grateful Dead song "Uncle John's Band," on Workingman's Dead, was written about Cohen and his band.
[edit] Monograph
- There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs, introduction by Greil Marcus ISBN 157687107X, ISBN 1576871193
[edit] Selected Filmography
- The High Lonesome Sound (1962)
- Fifty Miles from Times Square (1970)
- Peruvian Weaving: a continuous warp (1980)
- Sara and Maybelle (1981)
- Gypsies Sing Long Ballads (1982)
- Mountain Music of Peru (1984)
- Dancing with the Incas (1990)
- Carnival in Q'eros (1992)
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