Alan Lomax

The estate of Alan Lomax, Haitan scholar, and the Library of Congress have joined forces to produce a chronicle of Lomax's 1936 Haitan recording expedition in collaboration with The Association for Cultural Equity. Read More

Look for more soon, as I've restocked the staff with boxes of random vinyl, apart from everything I've got on this side. Read More

Bess Lomax Hawes, a folklorist, musician and teacher, has died. Read More

The first phrase to learn in Budapest has to be "Maga sokkal jobban tud angolul, mint én magyarul", or "Your English is far better than my Hungarian." Read More

Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday. Read More

In 1936, in the middle of scouring rural America for folk music that might have vanished forever if not for his efforts, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax traipsed off to Haiti for four months with his 19-year-old fiancée and a 55-pound recording unit. Read More

Salsburg paired the majority of performers with their song and uses only one recording of Ball, an introduction of himself he gave to Alan Lomax in 1959. Read More

The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place. Read More

In an age that decries romanticism , Alan Lomax stands out as an enormously romantic figure. Read More

Portraits of Gnawa , its second project on the sublabel Twos & Fews, run by Kentuckian Nathan Salsburg. Read More