Artist: Alan Lomax Genre(s):
Blues
Folk
Other
Discography:
Italian Treasury: Puglia the Salento Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook Year: 2003
Tracks: 41
World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 7: India Year: 2002
Tracks: 18
Songs From Aberdeenshire: The Alan Lomax Portait Series Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
Land Where the Blues Began Year: 2002
Tracks: 28
Go On, Sing Another Song: The Alan Lomax Portait Series Year: 2002
Tracks: 18
Extremadura: Spanish Recordings Year: 2002
Tracks: 42
The Spanish Recordings: Aragon and Valencia Year: 2001
Tracks: 32
Deep River of Song: Black Texicans - Balladeers and Songsters of the Texas Frontier Year: 2001
Tracks: 29
Caribbean Voyage: Grenada - Creole and Yoruba Voices Year: 2001
Tracks: 28
Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs Year: 1999
Tracks: 24
Negro Work Songs and Calls Year: 1999
Tracks: 19
Dominica - Caribbean Voyage: Creole Crossroads Year: 1999
Tracks: 26
Caribbean Voyage: East Indian Music In The West Indies Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Cajun and Creole Music, Vol. 2: 1934-1937 Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters And Hoedowns Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
World Library Of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 2: Ireland Year: 1998
Tracks: 33
The Growling Tiger of Calypso - The Alan Lomax Portait Series Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
First Recordings: The Alan Lomax Portait Series Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Caribbean Voyage: Brown Girl in the Ring Year: 1997
Tracks: 62
Negro Prison Blues and Songs Year: 1994
Tracks: 23
Sounds of the South Disc 2 Year: 1993
Tracks: 22
Woodie Guthrie Year: 1964
Tracks: 14
Funerary Music of Carriacou Year: 1962
Tracks: 24
Carribean Voyage Nevis and St. Kitts Year: 1962
Tracks: 31
Caribbean voyage - Carriacou Calaloo Year: 1962
Tracks: 31
Voices from the American South Year:
Tracks: 23
Trinidad - Carnival Roots Year:
Tracks: 26
Traditional Music and Songs of Italy Year:
Tracks: 30
Tombstone Feast, Funerary Music of Carriacou Year:
Tracks: 21
Songs of Seduction Year:
Tracks: 33
Sailor Men and Serving Maids Year:
Tracks: 24
Martinique, Cane Fields and City Streets Year:
Tracks: 23
Folksongs of Britain, Vol 9, Songs of Christmas Year:
Tracks: 25
Folksongs of Britain Vol 8 A Soldier's Life for Me Year:
Tracks: 22
Folksongs of Britain Vol 7 (Alan Lomax) Year:
Tracks: 20
Folksongs of Britain Vol 3 Year:
Tracks: 25
Folksongs of Britain Vol 1 Year:
Tracks: 23
Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales Vol.10 Year:
Tracks: 20
Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys - Folk Songs from the Bluegrass Year:
Tracks: 17
Classic Ballads Of Britain And Ireland Vol 2 Year:
Tracks: 27
Classic Ballads Of Britain And Ireland Vol 1 Year:
Tracks: 23
Child Ballads Vol 2 Year:
Tracks: 27
Child Ballads Vol 1 Year:
Tracks: 23
Cajun and Creole Music (vol 1) Year:
Tracks: 21
Asturies Year:
Tracks: 32
Aragon visto por Alan Lomax Year:
Tracks: 27
Alabama - from Lullabies to Blues Year:
Tracks: 32
Abruzzo Year:
Tracks: 25
Few figures merit greater cite for the preservation of America's folk music traditions than Alan Lomax. Scouring the backroads, honky tonks and work camps of the Deep South, he unearthed a treasure treasure trove of songs and singers, documenting the medicine of the coarse piece for future generations to see; through Lomax's pioneering efforts, ethnic traditions ranging from the Delta blue devils to Appalachian folk to line of business hollers keep on to hot on, with his priceless recordings offering a compelling portrait of multiplication and cultures otherwise retentive gone. The word of noted folklorist John A. Lomax, the nation's preeminent collector of cowherd songs, he was natural January 15, 1915 in Austin, Texas; from puerility on he followed in his father's footsteps, assisting in song-gathering missions whenever possible. In 1932, John was contracted to get together a scripture of tribe songs, and before long he and Alan set out with a rough recording political machine paid for by the Library of Congress; natural covering some 16,000 miles of the southeast U.S. in exactly four-spot months, they gathered a wealth of African-American work songs, many of them recorded at respective penitentiaries.
Among the musicians the Lomaxes encountered during their travels that summer was a Louisiana captive named Huddie Ledbetter; they helped get his release, employing him as a chauffeur and devising his first-class honours degree recordings. Ledbetter went on to fame under the discover Leadbelly, and corpse one of the genuine legends of American folk and vapors. Beginning in 1933 and lasting through to 1942, Alan -- on the job unequalled as easily as in conjunction with his father, writer Zora Neale Hurston, musicologist John Work and others -- recorded folk and traditional music for the Library of Congress throughout the Deep South, as well as in New England, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York and Ohio. He too recorded in Haiti and the Bahamas, pioneering the archival study of reality music which increased in the decades to pursue, and in the field made the first-ever recordings of Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters and Aunt Molly Jackson. Concurrently, the Lomaxes teamed on a figure of books, including 1934's American Ballads and Folksongs, 1936's Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly, 1937's
Cowboy Songs and 1938's Our Singing Country.
In 1938, Lomax turned to jazz, recording more than eight hours of vocals, instrumentals and spoken recollections from one of the founders of the form, Jelly Roll Morton. A twelvemonth after, he premiered "American Folk Songs," a 26-week historical overview air as parting of the CBS wireless series American School of the Air; Lomax likewise continued to save and train particular broadcasts promoting the war effort in the months forward. In 1946, he sabbatum down with Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Big Bill Broonzy to search the origins and philosophy of the blues, issuing the sessions in 1959 as Blues in the Mississippi Night; he spent the remainder of the ten recording prison house songs in the Mississippi region, and in 1948 became host and writer of the Mutual Broadcasting Network series On Top of Old Smokey. In 1950, Lomax resettled to England, where he remained for lots of the 10; in that location he authenticated the traditional music of the British Isles, with his recordings comely the basis of the ten-disc 1961 series Folksongs of Great Britain. During the same point, he besides made extensive field recordings in Spain and Italy.
Lomax returned to the States in 1959, and immediately made some other despatch into the South, where he discovered, among others, bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. A twelvemonth after, he published the book Folk Songs of North America; a six-month field stumble to the West Indies followed in 1962, and thither he recorded traditional musics from the English, French and Spanish-speaking people of the Caribbean, as easily as the Hindu cultivation of Trinidad. In 1967, Lomax teamed with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger for the book Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People; Folk Song Style and Culture, the mathematical product of his years of world medicine study, followed in 1968. The advent of newfangled technologies opened up new worlds for Lomax, and in the 1970s and eighties he made a serial of journeys plump for to the South to videotape traditional musical performances for the PBS series American Patchwork, completed and send in 1990. At the same time he continued work on the Global Jukebox -- an "intelligent museum" interactive software program project -- and arrange the finish touches on 1993's The Land Where the Blues Began, which won a National Book Award. Throughout the 90s and into the 21st 100, Rounder records steadily worked toward reissuing a 100-CD series showcasing Lomax' well-nigh fabled line of business recordings, generating a newfound audience for his scholarly efforts in ethnomusicology. Alan Lomax continued his crop lecturing, committal to writing, and on the job with the Association for Cultural Equity until his decease at the age of 87 on the morning of July 19, 2002. Fortunately for archivists and music lovers everyplace, his scrupulous certification of the music and cultures of the worldly concern testament be educating and enriching the lives of curious listeners for centuries to come up.
