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Alan Lomax's Music Archive to Hit the Web

Alan Lomax has set a record. The American folklorist and ethnomusicologist has been regarded as one of the great field collectors of folk music. His personal project with The Association for Cultural Equity is set to stream 17,000 tracks recorded by Lomax, which includes tacks from Ireland, the US, Britain, Italy, Spain and the Caribbean.  read more

Alan Lomax Haitian Music Box Set Celebrated With NYC Party

Alan Lomax, along with his father John Lomax, is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s true unsung heroes. He wasn’t an ace guitar shredder or a multi-octave crooner; he didn’t really have much musical talent at all. Rather, Alan Lomax was a collector. Working for the Library of Congress in the late 1930’s and 1940’s, Lomax archived massive collections of folk music from around the world, most famously through his work recording early American folk and blues musicians like Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly....  read more