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As most of you dedicated Pulp and Circumstance readers already know, I, humble blogger, am obsessed with all things Alan Lomax, traditional field recordings, and of course, prison song. And I can't stop spinning some recordings Lomax gathered up in the 1930s at sharecropping prisons across much of

Flashing through the lanes of West Cork the other night, probably a bit too fast, on the way from Bantry to Baltimore in the dusk, I heard this beautiful programme of archive voices and music. It’s a real gem: quiet and a bit old-fashioned.

When Mississippi Fred McDowell first started learning to play at age fourteen, he had no bottleneck slide to imitate the blues pickers of the day. So, he ripped a bone from the dead carcass of a steer and slid it over his finger to start teaching himself.  It is hard to believe he wasn’t recorded

My favorite bike riding (sorry Buck 65), Guiness drinking (oh how I love me a pre-noon Guiness) rapper is finally dropping some new material. Late last year, we got really excited when we first heard Envelope was working on a new album that would be entirely produced by fellow Ohian Blueprint.

In Search of the Blues By Marybeth Hamilton Basic Books The country bluesman carrying a guitar down that lonesome road is now a well established cultural archetype. It was not always so. Many folklorists and “song hunters” contributed to the Country (later Delta) Blues concept, often for their own ideological reasons.

Scaring the false capitalists...Valuing the real capitalists. --American musicologist Alan Lomax traveled all over the American South in the first part of the 20th century to record the folk music of men like Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, and Muddy Waters. He met Huddie Leadbetter (Leadbelly) in Texas and put together an album.

SUNDAY APRIL 13 Johnny Cash performs at Folsom Prison - 1968 MONDAY APRIL 14 Ellis Paul - 1965 TUESDAY APRIL 15 Alan Lomax - 1915 Queen Ida - 1925 WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 Tony Trishka - 1949 THURSDAY... [[ This is a content summary only.

'The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs' by Alan Lomax. Click guitar for better view at source. Penguin Book Covers uploaded and shared to Flickr by letslookupandsmile.

New York Times Book Review: “In Search of The Blues” by By DAVE MARSH The New York Times Speaking of the Blues, one of our guests on next week’s edition of “Progressive News Radio” is Blues, Soul and R&B singer-guitarist Stacy Mitchhart. Visit his website HERE. And be sure to listen to “Progressive News Radio” HERE.

An amazing 1947 documentary from ALAN LOMAX on the history of folk music in America - features Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee, and Sonny Terry!!! (Thank You for the suggestion, Kyle - this is fantastic!)