This collection of Alan Lomax's essays--from the scholarly to the popular--documents his efforts to collect vanishing American folklore and music over a half century, and to appreciate and celebrate the common man and woman and their everyd...
Featuring introductions, speeches, and album liner notes by the noted musicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax, as well as descriptions of the numerous artists he recorded in over five decades of musical exploration, many of the essays anthol...
This fascinating 2001 reproduction of Jelly Roll Morton's original 1950s biography includes Morton's own colorful and often embroidered account of his life, as well as folklorist Alan Lomax's riveting account of his investigations into the ...
In 1942, Alan Lomax traveled to several Southern states with the goal of finding the true origins of the blues. Not surprisingly, he encountered black musicians who professed a "white hatred," and met head on the Jim Crow laws that sought t...
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Enhancements include a 53 page PDF file with expanded liner notes.Personnel: Davie Stewart (vocals, accordion); Jimmy MacBeath (vocals).Co...
Recorded in Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Spain,, Southern United States and the Caribbean.This is part of Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection.These recordings were made between 1950 to 1964 by Lomax and his associates and reflect a marv...
This is part of Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection.Personnel: John Strachan (vocals, spoken vocals); Hamish Henderson (vocals, spoken vocals); Alan Lomax (spoken vocals).Liner Note Author: Hamish Henderson.Recording information: Fyvie...
Compilation producers: Anna L. Chairetakis, Jeffrey Greenberg.This is part of the Alan Lomax Collection.Personnel: Hobart Smith (vocals, guitar, banjo); Inez Munoz (vocals, guitar, lute, castanets); Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son Hous...
Personnel: Fred McDowell (vocals, guitar); Sidney Carter, Rose Hemphill, Annie Mae McDowell, James Shorty (vocals); Miles Pratcher (guitar); Fanny Davis (comb).Producer: Alan Lomax.Compilation producers: Anna L. Chairetakis, Jeffrey A...
Alan Lomax's influential body of field recordings covered more than just music produced on American soil, as Rounder Records incredible collection THE SPANISH RECORDINGS attests. Lomax was a player on the world stage as well, and this set f...
Though folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax's legend rests on the singers and musicians he and his father John Lomax recorded on their travels throughout America--from Leadbelly to the unknown Georgia Sea Island singers--he did occasional...
Performers include: Jumbo Brightwell, Isla Cameron, Bob & Ron Cooper, Harry Cox, Elizabeth Cronin, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Thomas Moran, Jeannie Robertson, John Strachan, Phil Tanner, Belle Stewart.When Alan Lomax set out to collect fi...
Alan Lomax's journey to Scotland in 1951 yielded some of his most earthy and genuinely folkloric material. When he wasn't hitting the cities chronicling street musicians and festivals, he was trudging through the Hebrides and propping his m...
The first set focusing on Spain from the Alan Lomax library released by Rounder, The Spanish Recordings: Basque Country -- Biscay and Guipuzcoa does not present a style of music one might expect to be found in Spain at all. As Lomax travele...
The companion piece to The Spanish Recordings: Basque Country -- Biscay and Guipuzcoa, this edition of Alan Lomax's trip to the Basque Country focuses on the Navarre area, west of Biscay and Guipuzcoa. The greatest difference in the two are...
Recorded in Guadeloupe, Martinique, & St. Barthelemy in 1962.This is the latest installment in the massive Caribbean Voyage series from Rounder Records, drawn from field recordings made by Alan Lomax during a swing through the Lesser Ant...
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