Folklorist, songfinder, author, radio personality, ethnomusicologist, oral historian, activist, filmmaker, concert producer, recording artist, scholar, archivist, lecturer — Alan Lomax was all of ...

Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of... Andy Biskin And 16 Tons Revisit 'Songs From The Alan ...

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Alan Lomax spent more than a half-century recording folk music and customs around the world, and now he is the subject of a new book by John Szwed called Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. In ...

Near the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton was bitter and in financial straits, feeling overlooked for his contributions as a jazz trailblazer while others got the credit. In 1938, folklorist Alan ...

This holiday season, the story of iconic songwriter Bob Dylan hits the big screen. Newly released film ' A Complete Unknown ' ...

The lifework of the late legendary American folklorist Alan Lomax has been acquired by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. "I think it's the jewel in the crown of the collections ...

Words and music principally by Ledbetter; includes folk song adaptations. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...

Jazz clarinetist Andy Biskin worked for the seminal American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax right out of college. For his latest recording, Biskin turns to Lomax’s classic collection, “Folksongs of ...

Prayer -- Adam in the garden pinnin' leaves -- Samson -- The man of Calvary -- Job -- John done saw that number -- John was a-writin' -- Dem bones -- The blood-stained banders -- God moves on the ...

NEW YORK -- -- Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, ...