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Lomax saved America's music from extinction From folk to blues to jazz, he archived tunes from all corners
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He was an adventurer with boundless energy, scouring mountains and
back roads for authentic American voices and carrying them home to
the city, where performers with names like Guthrie and Seeger and
Dylan listened--and changed forever the way the country listened to
music.
Unless you're in the record business or the folklore business,
odds are you never heard of Alan Lomax. But it would be nearly
impossible to find, anywhere, an American citizen untouched by his
decades of work seekin...
