Episode 80: John Lomax III (Part 1)
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English - May 20, 2014 20:17 - 30 minutes - 34 MB - ★★★★★ - 701 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Arts Performing Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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John talks about his grandfather documenting cowboy songs in the late 1800s, Carl Sandburg, Studs Terkel, John Sr. and Alan Lomax recording Lead Belly in Angola Prison, discovering folk singers in churches and prisons, finding Muddy Waters at Stovall Plantation,… Continue Reading →
John talks about his grandfather documenting cowboy songs in the late 1800s, Carl Sandburg, Studs Terkel, John Sr. and Alan Lomax recording Lead Belly in Angola Prison, discovering folk singers in churches and prisons, finding Muddy Waters at Stovall Plantation, Honeyboy Edwards, Ironhead Baker, making recordings on horseback, traveling in a Model A Ford, Lightnin’ Hopkins Stories, Mance Lipscomb stories, Les Blank films, his family’s legacy, etc.