Hark! The arrival of a late in the year gift: Songs of Christmas, Midwinter & New Year: From the Alan Lomax Collection. Collecting material the legendary archivist recorded in the Caribbean, Italy, Spain, Scotland, the American South, and Harlem, this compilation presents a variety of Yuletide sounds, both playful and sacred, from around the globe.
Category: Alan Lomax
Field Recordings / Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey, 1959-1960
I’ve had this on the mind, and stereo, of late: Worried Now, Won’t Be Worried Long: Field Recordings From Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey, 1959-1960 . Specifically the track “Ida Reed”. Compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Lomax’s “Southern […]
Alan Lomax :: Cultural Equity’s Video Archives
From the Mississippi Delta to Cuba and beyond, Alan Lomax documented a vast array of distinct and disparate varieties of regional music for over sixty years, creating a vast and priceless collection […]