SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - DJ John Lomax visits KSLA’s studio to speak with ArkLaTex Artistry about the third installment of his Strange Music for Nice People. On April 26, at 8 p.m., DJ Lomax the Grey ...
HOLIDAY -- Alan Lomax, the world's pre-eminent collector of folk songs, died Friday morning after suffering a heart attack in his nursing home. He was 87. Lomax, best known for his discovery of Muddy ...
Most people who know American music probably have heard of Alan Lomax. He’s the guy who visited rural areas of the country around the time of the Great Depression, recording — and thereby preserving — ...
Longmont banjo player Jayme Stone holds an old recording from the Alan Lomax collection. "Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project" puts a new spin on old music. The new album from the Longmont banjo player and 14 ...
In 70 years of collecting and popularizing folk music, Alan Lomax changed the way people heard American music. John Szwed's new book, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, is the first biography ...
It’s safe to say the foresight of John Lomax, assisted by 1934 technology, accomplished what the musicologist set out to do with the field recordings he made some 80 years ago in south Louisiana. And ...
When the firetruck showed up at John Avery Lomax Jr.'s West University Place home, the flames out back were 30 feet high. This was in the 1950s. Lomax Jr. had collected discarded Christmas trees from ...
The single most important and transformative figure in 20th-century American music is arguably not a musician at all. Sure, a case could be made for the likes of Bob Dylan, Hank Williams or James ...
In the late 1880s, when John Lomax would sneak out into the desert, he could hear cowboys singing around campfires. "He wasn't a musician, but he wrote what they were saying," says Troy Campbell of ...
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