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Lomax happily labored to preserve folk music
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Lomax happily labored to preserve folk music
By TED ANTHONY Associated Press
Sunday, July 21, 2002
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 Ala...
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O Brother, what next? Making sense of the folk fad.(Essay)
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The folk slingers
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Southern Cultures
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