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About Alan Lomax Field Recordings
Alan Lomax is a folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He began making field recordings with his father, a fellow folklorist, John Lomax, of American folk music for the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song. Throughout his six decades of pivotal work, Lomax travelled all over the United States, as well as to the Carribean, Ireland, Great Britain, Spain (where he was hounded by Franco's fascist police), and Italy. Aside from turning the Archive of American Folk Song into one of the most important music resources in the world
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Histe up the John B. Sail [#]
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Blow, Liza, Blow [#]
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Round the Bay of Mexico [#]
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Roll Him Along
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Bowline
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Stand up from Below [#]
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John Bully [#]
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When the Whale Get Strike [#]
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When You Go to Sea [#]
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O the Last One [#]
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All Night, Jesus, All Night [#]
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Long Time Ago [#]
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Come Down, You Roses [#]
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Swing Your Tail [#]
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Mary, Come Join Our Religon [#]
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A Great Storm Pass Over [#]
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Louisiana
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I May Be Gone [#]
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Time [#]
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Sittin' Down 'Longside of My Lord [#]
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Down in the Valley [#]
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Dig My Grave
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Job [#]
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God's Unchanging Hand
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Little Sally Walker
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Rolled and Tumbled
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I Bid You Goodnight [#]
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Emmaline, Take Your Time
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Lord Have Mercy
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Jim and John
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61 Highway Blues
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Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room)
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Mama Lucy
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Stewball
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Berta, Berta
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Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
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I'm Goin' Home
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Old Devil's Dream
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Po' Boy Blues
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I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die
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Germany Blues
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Fred McDowell's Blues
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Clarksdale Mill Blues
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Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby
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Here Am I [#]
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The Titanic
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Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home
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Dark Day
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Very Same Lord
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