In 1997, Rounder Records introduced The Alan Lomax Collection, a multi-CD set of recordings spanning the folklorist's six-decades of recording in the U.S., Haiti, the Caribbean and Europe. Listen to a streaming radio sampler from Rounder's anthology.
Song Selections
"Darling Corey"
Performed by Alan Lomax
Previously Unreleased
"Wonder What's the Matter"
Performed by Lightnin' Washington & Group Alan Lomax Collection (Rounder 1826)
"Jim and John"
Performed by Ed Young and Others Southern Highway Volume 3, (Rounder 1703)
"The Cuckoo"
Performed by Jean Ritchie
Previously Unreleased
What was once an ancient tropical garden of immense color and variety is in danger of being replaced by a comfortable but sterile and sleep-inducing system of cultural super-highways — with just one type of diet and one available kind of music.”
— Alan Lomax, "Saga of Solksong Hunter." HiFi Stereo Review, May 1960.
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