Latest Release
- MAR 15, 2024
- 66 Songs
- Cowboy Songs of the Old West · 1958
- Get in Union · 2015
- Get in Union · 2003
- Get in Union · 2015
- The Complete Plantation Recordings · 1993
- Traditional Music & Songs of Italy · 1999
- Get in Union · 1998
- Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs · 1984
- Get in Union · 2015
- Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs · 1984
Essential Albums
Albums
- 1996
- 1991
Live Albums
- 2024
- 2020
About Alan Lomax
Ethnomusicologist and archivist Alan Lomax's contribution to the preservation and continued flourishing of American folk music is inestimable. Lomax traveled through the American South in the 1940s with a mobile recording unit in order to capture firsthand the rich tapestry of the nation's non-commercial music. The massive amount of music Lomax collected for the Library of Congress is a Rosetta Stone of American roots forms, featuring work and prison songs, raw gospel, Delta blues, string bands, yodels, sacred harp, and rustic country, among myriad other sounds. Although Lomax's areas of discovery were not limited to just the United States, his legacy will forever be synonymous with American music.
- HOMETOWN
- Austin, TX, United States
- BORN
- January 31, 1915
- GENRE
- Worldwide