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Article: SOUNDS OF FOLK AMERICA REVISITED BY ENTERTAINER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 8, 1997
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In 1933, John Lomax, a pioneer folklorist, loaded 315 pounds of recording machines into his Model A Ford and set out on a back-roads journey in search of the sounds of America.
Before they were done, Lomax and his teen-age son, Alan, gathered more than 10,000 performances - songs and stories, sermons and prayers, along with the occasional tick of a kitchen clock.
From that collection emerged 3,000 78-rpm Library of Congress folk music recordings, housed in jackets of bureaucratic gray with maroon lettering, too voluminous for anybody's casual listening.
The Lomax mother lode served as a resource for students of American folk music. It has ...