Alan Lomax: Keeper of traditional music.(ARTS)(APPRECIATION) From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: July 27, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Derek Simmonsen, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The best thing about Alan Lomax was that he had an ear for good music. The noted musicologist and field recorder was never a household name, though the musicians he discovered (Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie) have had a welcome place in America's living rooms for some time.

His death July 19, at the age of 87, is a reminder of the legacy he left behind. Mr. Lomax's passion was to find the folk songs that had built the United States, the kind of backwater music that cared little for commercial trends, and bring it to ...

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