Back Home In Bogenbrook by Nathan Salsburg There aren’t any words on the seven original songs on Nathan Salsburg’s debut album, Affirmed. But the album still tells the life story its author, who was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Kentucky, and worked in New York as a folklorist for the Alan Lomax Archive before [...]

Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded The World By Jon Swzed Penguin Group New biography puts the life and work of Alan Lomax in the spotlight. In his quest for distinctive American folk music, Alan Lomax brought the songs of Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters and Leadbelly to a larger audience, and it’s no [...]

ALAN LOMAX IN HAITI Recordings for the Library of Congress (HARTE) Rating: In December 1936, Alan Lomax traveled to Haiti with a “turntable-cutting unit” and a stack of 12” blank aluminum disks to record on. He spent the next four months traveling around Haiti recording the songs and stories of the land. Lomax preferred to [...]