Alone in his field PBS examines the lasting impact of Alan Lomax's field recordings.(Suburban Living)(TV/Radio)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: August 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Ted Cox

A Dutch filmmaker goes looking for ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and, finding him stricken and silenced by a stroke, has to discover him through secondary sources, via interviews with colleagues and the singers he recorded.

What a perfect way to profile this very important figure, because Lomax is known best not for his own music - although he displays a lovely singing voice in old film footage - but for the recordings of others he made around the world.

Airing at 10 p.m. today on WTTW Channel 11, "Lomax the Songhunter" isn't a great documentary. Truth ...

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