Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Global Juke Box

One Of My Heroes...*

Lomax recordings now available free online!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/03/28/148915022/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online

* Diane Smith is another - she got her PhD!

3 comments:

Diane Smith said...

Thanks, Sherry! I like Lomax too. -- signed, Dr. Diane

Diane Smith said...

And in other news that has all of Montana (or at least this household) talking: Steve Martin will be performing here this summer with his band.

Diane Smith said...

Alan Lomax:

"I was running the folk archive [at the Library of Congress] when the archive was shut down by a rabid born-again Southerner who attacked it because we had recorded that cantankerous, rambling ballad-maker Woody Guthrie. He just then, by the way, recorded 'This Land Is Your Land,' and I recorded it for the Library of Congress. But they were so severe about it that they cut the whole Library of Congress appropriation out. Later it was put back, but the archive didn't recover for many years."