Leonard Bowles and Irvin Cook

Leonard Bowles and Irvin Cook

I heard about Bowles and Cook first on the Smithsonian Folkways “People’s Pick’s” playlist series that got kicked off by my friend Daniel Bachman in 2015. He described their music best in his notes, writing: It seems appropriate that this is the first song on the playlist because it was the first I ever heard…

Poor Valley Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rose Hill, VA

Poor Valley Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rose Hill, VA

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Primitive church building, serviced by a group of teenagers from Virginia, close to the Kentucky border. I assume the church was built and active in the summer and fall of 2013. These kids were signs followers and seem to have taken it quite serious. The church building looks like a remodeled shag, has outhouses and…