Various Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook.(Sound Recording Review)

From: Sing Out! | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Wald, Elijah | Copyright information

Rounder 1866

There could be few better introductions to the range of rural African-American musics that have come under the rubric of blues than this double CD of recordings made by Alan Lomax, his father John, and various associates between 1934 and 1978. There are famous names here--Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie McTell, R.L. Burnside, Dock Boggs, Jelly Roll Morton and too many others to name here but many of the mo...

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