Beste Alan Lomax Archive podcasts (2024)

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23 - MIX: Alan Lomax in Carriacou, 1962 30:27

18d ago30:27

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Been All Around This World has a new co-host! ACE Program Coordinator and Been All Around This World producer Michael Cormier-O'Leary joins Curator Nathan Salsburg in bringing you new episodes of this podcast. We are expanding the show's format to include episodes like today's, which is a continuous mix of music, mixed in with our deeper dives. Thi…

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21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year 30:26

7M ago30:26

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An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from the Lomax Collection," available now on the Lomax Archive's Bandcamp page as well as the streaming services. We invite you to pair this mix with our older holiday-themed episode, which features other related mate…

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20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings 34:17

8M ago34:17

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Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip. 1) Frank Goodwyn & Manuel Salinas: Chinese Breakdown (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) 2) Lake Porter: The Lost Girl (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) 3) Lake Porter: Drunken Hiccups (Falfurrias, Brooks …

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19 - Go to Sleepy Little Baby: Lullabies from the Alan Lomax Collection 32:06

9M ago32:06

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The Lomax Collection reflects a variety of human experience—from the sacred to the profane, from the rural to the urban, and from the public square to the domestic scene. The Lomaxes recorded lullabies all over the world, creating a record of the universality of these particularly intimate moments between parents and children. This episode gathers …

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16 - Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year 2:21:37

1+ y ago2:21:37

2:21:37

An expansion of our Christmas and New Year episode of a few years back with extra tracks and more all around cheer. Links are to tracks' records in the Lomax Digital Archive. Those without them are either not Lomax recordings, or not yet included in the LDA. (If you'd like to assist in digitization/cataloging efforts to preserve and make available …

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15 - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations" 1:03:39

1+ y ago1:03:39

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Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begin to fall," etc. Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive): [Bed music] Fred McDowell: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning 1. E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson: Tribulations (Rugby, Virginia, …

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14 - "When I'm Gone, Gone": South Carolina, 1934–1940 28:12

2y ago28:12

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(Scroll down for playlist and links to resources mentioned.) This episode provides an introduction to the singers and sites visited by John A. Lomax in the Palmetto State between 1934 and 1940, on the occasion of...: The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Association for Cultural Equity, and the Charles Joyner Institute for Gu…

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13 - Songs and stories for Halloween 1:08:46

3y ago1:08:46

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[Bed music:] Sid Hemphill and band: The Death March (Quitman Co., Mississippi, August 1942). Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Hoskins: Ah, Lovely Appearance of Death (Horse Creek, Clay Co., Kentucky, October 1942) Bessie Jones: Oh Death (St. Simons Island, Georgia, October 1959) Nimrod Workman: O Death (Mascot, Tennessee, July 1983) Bessie Jones tells a story of a …

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12 - The Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 70 years later 2:09:03

3y ago2:09:03

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August 30, 2021, is the 70-year anniversary of the 1951 Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, the seminal event that heralded and generated the Scottish Folk Revival of the 1960s. Alan Lomax was on hand to record it in the Oddfellows Hall, and thus able to preserve a document of a legendary concert that alerted the astonished urban audience to the c…

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11 - "Making It In Hell": Parchman Farm, 1933–1969

4+ y ago

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Brutality and inhumanity were central to the Southern state prison farms, in their theory and their practice, and of them all, the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm was the most brutal and inhuman. Both John A. and Alan Lomax made repeated visits to Parchman, recording — under the eye of the disinterested white captains, sergeants, an…

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10 - Singing from the Sacred Harp, 1928-1983

5y ago

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Sacred Harp -- the four-part shape-note singing tradition long confined to the American South, but recently enjoying remarkable international popularity and participation -- fascinated and challenged Lomax for most of his career. He recorded it multiple times, trying with increasing technological sophistication to capture its indelible magic. In th…

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09 - The Mississippi Hill Country, 1942-1978

5y ago

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1. Sid Hemphill and band: The Carrier Line (or the Carrier song). Sledge, Mississippi, August 1942. 2. Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith: Going Away, Won't Be Long. Senatobia, Miss., September 1959. 3. Miles and Bob Pratcher: I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die. Como, Miss., 9/59. 4. Fred McDowell with Fanny Davis and Miles Pratcher: Shake 'Em On Down. C…

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08 - The Southern Journey at 60

5y ago

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The Fall 2019 season of the program will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the so-called "Southern Journey" field-recording trip and explore various regions, traditions, and performers Lomax and Collins visited and recorded. This first episode is a (highly cursory) survey. 1. Hobart Smith: Railroad Bill. Bluefield, Virginia, August 25. 2. Texas G…

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07 - Sing Christmas

5+ y ago

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1. Villagers of Cáceres, La Mancha: Christmas processional, Christmas Eve 1952 2. Merritt Boddie and Marigolds band: Christmas Machete, Gingerland, Nevis, July 1962 3. Norman Edmonds and the Old-Timers: Breaking Up Christmas, Hillsville, Virginia, August 1959 4. Sophie Loman Wing and group: All Night Long, St. Simons Island, Georgia, June 1935 5. K…

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06 - Oh Freedom

6y ago

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Topical, protest, and resistance songs from Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Trinidad by way of New York City, Oklahoma by way of California, and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm. 1. Sarah Ogan Gunning: I Hate the Capitalist System. NYC, November 1937. 2. Hobart Smith: Peg and Awl. Bluefield, Virginia, August 1959. 3. …

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05 - Singing of the Sea

6y ago

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Songs from and/or of the sea (and one Great Lake), from Italy, Scotland, Grenada, the Georgia Sea Islands, and Lake Michigan. 1. Captain A.H. Rasmussen: interview on chanties/Amsterdam Maid (fragment). Recorded in London, 1955. 2. Daniel Aitkens & tombstone feast group: Blow the Man Down. Recorded in La Resource, Carriacou, Grenada, August 1962. 3.…

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04 - Let Us Not Praise Famous Men

6+ y ago

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The Lomaxes are well-known for the recordings they made of artists who went on to become famous and influential figures in traditional and popular music alike: Lead Belly, Bessie Jones, Woody Guthrie, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters. But there are countless wonderful singers and players in the Lomax collections about whom we know next to no…

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03 - Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea

6+ y ago

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Dance tunes from Arkansas, Abruzzo, the island of Dominica, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a front porch in the North Carolina Piedmont, and an excerpt from the "Dancing Around the World" episode of Alan Lomax's 1948 "Your Ballad Man" radio show. 1. Said excerpt, early 1948, Mutual Broadcasting System. 2. Edward King: Le Jour D L'an (New Years Day). R…

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02 - Baby, It Must Be Love

6+ y ago

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A selection of songs concerning love in its vagaries, timed for Valentine's Day. Performances from Atlanta, Georgia; Cajun Louisiana; Scotland; Southwest Virginia; Turkmenistan; Eastern Kentucky, and the Arkansas Ozarks. Playlist: 1. Blind Willie McTell: King Edward Blues. Recorded by John A. Lomax in Atlanta, Georgia, November 5, 1940. 2. Isla Cam…

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01 - I've Been All Around This World

6+ y ago

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In the inaugural episode of "Been All Around This World" we survey Alan Lomax's seven-decade field-recording career, with music from Haiti, Ireland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and the tiny Caribbean island of Carriacou, recorded between 1937 and 1991. Playlist: 1. Rara St. Therese: Mwen tètè (I Am Stubborn). Members unidentified. Recorded on Marc…

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23 - MIX: Alan Lomax in Carriacou, 1962 30:27

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21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year 30:26

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20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings 34:17

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19 - Go to Sleepy Little Baby: Lullabies from the Alan Lomax Collection 32:06

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16 - Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year 2:21:37

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15 - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations" 1:03:39

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14 - "When I'm Gone, Gone": South Carolina, 1934–1940 28:12

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13 - Songs and stories for Halloween 1:08:46

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12 - The Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh, 70 years later 2:09:03

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11 - "Making It In Hell": Parchman Farm, 1933–1969

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10 - Singing from the Sacred Harp, 1928-1983

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09 - The Mississippi Hill Country, 1942-1978

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08 - The Southern Journey at 60

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07 - Sing Christmas

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06 - Oh Freedom

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05 - Singing of the Sea

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04 - Let Us Not Praise Famous Men

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03 - Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea

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02 - Baby, It Must Be Love

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01 - I've Been All Around This World

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