Anybody ever heard of Malcom Holcombe?

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I saw Patterson Hood last night (best show I've seen since...well, since the Drive By Truckers on Halloween...and even that's a tie...but that's for another thread) and Chip Robinson opened (he's in the Backsliders, right?) - he was good, but the best song he played was a cover of a song by a dude named Malcolm Holcombe - the song was called "Who Carried You" and it ruled - anybody know anything about him?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 25 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure you don't mean Roscoe Holcomb?

― hexxyAnswers, Friday, 25 June 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no, no. This is a local kinda dude.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 25 June 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that song's one of the best ones on this album. He's good, one of these songwriter's songwriters -- lots of guys in Nashville who'll tell you he's the great lost American artist, which isn't really true but he's idiosyncratic enough that you can kind of see why people think so. He reminds me a little of Townes van Zandt in the elusiveness of his lyrics and the way his melodies kind of sneak in the back door. He's not Townes, of course. But if you ever get a chance to see him, he's pretty great live.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(trivia note -- that album was produced by Steve Soles, who put the Soles in P.J. Soles -- they divorced ages ago, though)

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

A friend of mine just wrote a pretty good piece on him. Leaving aside his technophobia and "folk music" blah-blah, he's an interesting guy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 October 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

www.malcolmholcombe.com

― David Hollister, Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Have you heard the fairly new song by Johnny Reid?... Dance with me.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 3 September 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

He died 10 days ago. RIP. I got to see him live, I guess about 20 years ago now, in Maryville. He was as good as you can imagine, better. Like he was channelling something. Just him and a guitar on stage.

https://www.wmot.org/roots-radio-news/2024-03-12/remembering-electrifying-and-mercurial-songwriter-malcolm-holcombe-gone-at-68

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:35 (two years ago)

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