P.O.V. - Lomax the Songhunter . Alan Lomax Radio

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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.

ADDITIONAL SCENES
The Songhunter's Trail

BOOK EXCERPT
Alan Lomax: Selected Writings

IN DEPTH
Folklife and Field Recording

"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
"Thug M Gaol Dhuit"
Performed by Calum Johnson
World Library Scotland, (Rounder 1743)
"Tartantella"
Performed by Michelle Borgese and Guiseppe Velardo
Italian Series: Calabria, (Rounder 1803)
"La Partenza"
Performed by Longshoremen of Genoa
Lomax Collection Sampler, (Rounder 1700)

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"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.

Rounder Records - The Alan Lomax Collection

More Special Features:
The Songhunter's Trail | Alan Lomax: Selected Writings | Folklife and Field Recording

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Posted August 17, 2006