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Almost every revived American folk-music form was once recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist Alan Lomax. He taped Sacred Harp in 1942 and '59. Unlike other finds such as Leadbelly, it failed to spark during the 1960s folk revival, but musicologists were infected. Now the form had imitable LPs and an academic beachhead...
...head-bobbing beat and unflappable composure. A groove this good could only have come straight from the source: I can picture Beck wandering the back alleys and dirt-caked hamlets of the American South armed only with a good ear and a tape recorder, a latter-day Alan Lomax...
...head-bobbing beat and unflappable composure. A groove this good could only have come straight from the source: I can picture Beck wandering the back alleys and dirt-caked hamlets of the American South armed only with a good ear and a tape recorder, a latter-day Alan Lomax...
...They’re just kids who are passionate about the election,” said Carolyn Payne Lomax, a Bush worker from Waco, Texas, who has been in New Hampshire for 12 days. She pointed to Yale and the University of New Hampshire as other sources of student volunteers...
DIED. JAMES CARTER, 77, a sharecropper's son who led fellow prisoners at a Mississippi jail in a bluesy work song that four decades later became a Grammy Award--winning hit; in Chicago. One day in 1959 when musical archivist Alan Lomax was at the prison collecting material on a tape recorder, he captured Po' Lazarus, Carter's song about a man who is hunted by a lawman and gunned down. In 2000 the song found a new audience when it appeared on the sound track to the Depression-era film O Brother, Where Art Thou...