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Alan Lomax Archive
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The filmwork of Alan Lomax is a resource for students, researchers, filmmakers, and fans of America's traditional music and folkways. Shot throughout the American South and Southwest over the course of seven years (1978-1985) in preparation for a PBS series, "American Patchwork," which aired in 1991, these videos consist of performances, interviews, and folkloric scenes culled from 400 hours of raw footage, many of which have never been seen publicly. The project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) was founded by Alan Lomax to explore and sustain the world's expressive traditions with humanistic commitment and scientific engagement. ACE was registered as a charitable organization in the State of New York in 1983. It is housed at and its work made possible by New York City's Hunter College.
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) was founded by Alan Lomax to explore and sustain the world's expressive traditions with humanistic commitment and scientific engagement. ACE was registered as a charitable organization in the State of New York in 1983. It is housed at and its work made possible by New York City's Hunter College.
Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: Calvary, #300 (1982)
"Calvary" (#300), led by Terry Wootten. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at Holly Springs Baptist Church, Holly Springs, Georgia, June 1982. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [03.09.56]
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22 - When I Get Home: Sacred songs from the 1939 Texas recordings
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The last episode of our survey of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings features highlights of sacred performances in the collection. 1) Eulalia Martinez, Paola Lopez, Genoveva Lopez: Gloria a Diós en las alturas (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63183) (Sugarland, Fort Bend County, Texas, April 23, 1939) 2) Gonzalo Lopez, Cleofe Lopez: (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63185) Vela po...
21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year
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An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from the Lomax Collection," available now on the Lomax Archive's Bandcamp page (alanlomaxarchive.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-christmas-midwinter-new-year) as well as the streaming services. We invite you to pair this mix with our older holiday-themed episode (cult...
20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings
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Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip. 1) Frank Goodwyn & Manuel Salinas: Chinese Breakdown (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63265) 2) Lake Porter: The Lost Girl (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63273) 3) Lake Porter: Dru...
18 - Long Hot Summer Days: Work songs from the 1939 Texas recordings
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This second episode exploring the 1939 Texas recordings of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax focuses on work songs: selections of "river songs" sung by Black men incarcerated in the prison-farms of the Texas Department of Corrections, as well as pieces from free-world agricultural settings and the railroad section gang. 1) Alan Lomax interview with Charles Kuralt, 1991 (watch the complete interview her...
17 - Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Introducing John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings
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Between 1933 and 1946, John A. Lomax made some 80 hours of recordings in the state of Texas, his home state. (John was born in Mississippi in 1867, but his family moved to rural Bosque County, Texas, near Waco, just after his second birthday.) It’s a massive amount of material, reflecting an extraordinary diversity of vernacular traditions, and featuring the first and last recordings that John ...
Bailey, Brady, Cobbs, and Ellison: So Soon I’ll Be At Home (1941)
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A quartet composed of Ivory Lee Bailey, Eddie C. Brady, James Odell Cobbs, and Robert Lee Ellison, recorded by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax and Lewis Jones at the Maple Springs Baptist Church, Medon, Tennessee, August 26, 1941 (not, as the card says, 1942). (The quartet presumably had a name but it was not notated.) Visit the Lomax Digital Archive at archive.culturalequity.org for more. [AFS 4761B1]
Blind Jim Howard: The Old Fish Song (1933)
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Blind Jim Howard, voice and fiddle, performs “The Old Fish Song,” his comic-epic telling of the story of Jonah and the whale, recorded by John A. and Alan Lomax in Harlan, Kentucky, August 1, 1933. James P. (“Blind Jim”) Howard, was born in Harlan County on June 22, 1888, in the settlement of Dressen. The fiddler and singer performed for school programs, dances, community gatherings and, in the...
Brendan Behan: Joe Brady (The Fenian Blade) (1951)
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On an unknown date in 1951, Irish playwright, essayist, and raconteur Brendan Behan sat down with Alan Lomax for an informal recording session, presumably at Radio Eireann in Dublin, where he sang bawdy material and Republican and Fenian songs, including the ballad of Joe Brady, alternately known as “The Fenian Blade,” presented in its entirety here (although the very last phrase somehow wasn’t...
Rev. E.M. Martin: Hold the Wind (1942)
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Rev. E.M. Martin sings "Hold the Wind" in the back room of Nelson's Funeral Home, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Recorded by Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones on July 23, 1942. The "Christian Springs" on the catalog card was almost certainly a mishearing and Rev. Martin was in fact from Crystal Springs, Miss. From the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. For more, visi...
Hodge family: Oh Lady, You're Mashing Me Toe
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Joseph, Lizbeth, James, Ernest, and Cyril Hodge and friends perform "Oh Lady, You're Mashing Me Toe" at Copse Eastern, Anguilla, July 5, 1962. (Lead singers and accordion player unidentified.) Recorded by Alan Lomax, J.D. Elder, and Antoinette Marchand. For more from the Lomax collections, visit archive.culturalequity.org. [1147R03]
15 - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations"
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Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begin to fall," etc. Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive): [Bed music] Fred McDowell: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/como-iii-959/keep-your-lamps-trimmed-and-burni...
Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: New Georgia, #534 (1982)
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"New Georgia" (#534), led by Grady Albright. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew at the Holly Springs Baptist Church, Holly Springs, Georgia, June 1982. For more Lomax field recordings, 1933-1991, visit archive.culturalequity.org. [03.09.117]
Yo'eme/Yaqui string band: Pascola dance tune (1983)
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Yo'eme/Yaqui string band: Pascola dance tune (1983)
Unidentified quartet: Lord, Don't Turn Your Child Away (1939)
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Unidentified quartet: Lord, Don't Turn Your Child Away (1939)
Susan Shepherd: The [1927] Kentucky Flood (1937)
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Susan Shepherd: The [1927] Kentucky Flood (1937)
Bill Tatnall: Looking for the Bully of the Town (1935)
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Bill Tatnall: Looking for the Bully of the Town (1935)
Julia Griffin and group: Power Now (1936)
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Julia Griffin and group: Power Now (1936)
Benjamin Bligen and Wesley United Methodist Church congregation: At the Cross (1983)
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Benjamin Bligen and Wesley United Methodist Church congregation: At the Cross (1983)
People's Burial Aid Society Choir of Columbia, S.C.: Twelve Gates To the City (1940)
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People's Burial Aid Society Choir of Columbia, S.C.: Twelve Gates To the City (1940)
14 - "When I'm Gone, Gone": South Carolina, 1934-1940
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14 - "When I'm Gone, Gone": South Carolina, 1934-1940
Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: Easter Anthem, #236 (1982)
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Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: Easter Anthem, #236 (1982)
Syne Village Spiritual Baptists: Go to Dark Gethsemane (1962)
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Syne Village Spiritual Baptists: Go to Dark Gethsemane (1962)
Xiquet de Benaguasil and rondalla: Te Canto Con Mil Amores (1952)
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Xiquet de Benaguasil and rondalla: Te Canto Con Mil Amores (1952)
Alan Lomax: Jack the Rabbit (track-lining song) (1969)
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Alan Lomax: Jack the Rabbit (track-lining song) (1969)
Rich Amerson and Joe Fred Williams: Billy Goat Latin (1937)
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Rich Amerson and Joe Fred Williams: Billy Goat Latin (1937)
Joe Savage: Tree-cutting holler (1978)
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Joe Savage: Tree-cutting holler (1978)
Roland Zachary and Paul Sylvester: You Long-Time Old Rounders (1934)
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Roland Zachary and Paul Sylvester: You Long-Time Old Rounders (1934)
I googled pallet to see if I was spelling it correctly. Went in a whole damn adventure here with this video. 😂
This is otherworldly
Alan lomax and Cecil Sharp thanks for saving these important parts of our cultural heritage
I've been watching this same video for easily over 5 or 6 years and it never fails to give me chills. This right here, Mr. Belton Sutherland, is the personification of the Blues! An older Black Man smoking a self-rolled cigarette on his front porch while playing his guitar and singing his heart out. We've all said to our Ol'Lady at one time or another, "I want you to love me or leave me.. Anythang that you wanna do!" This is a GEM right here. God Bless Mr. Sutherland and long live his legacy and contribution to the BLUES!
I liken it to hollerin' out for the Lord! It moves me deeply. Remember this when life gets you down. Start singing strong & loud & true.
He had a great smile!
All that needs to be said is said. I'll add - please let every gear-snob hear this and be cured...
How do you get over guilt for a sin, and not question salvation?
This is on a random mix of mine between Blues Brothers and Twisted Sister. It hits just right.
In them days no one cut your beard off 😊
Lol this popped up in a Bobby Sox Playlist, this isn't grunge-punk but this is the vibe!!!
His music strikes the soul.
I love the hell out of this !
the riff in this song really sounds like the main riff in "Sail Away" by Deep Purple
Ancient music, sung as it undoubtedly was in the 1700s and earlier, captured on film.
Those was the good Eastern star the new blk women ain't shit lol
Mississippi
Real blues can’t be taught it can’t be learned it can only be felt in the soul by the one playing and this is truly a real blues soul playing ❤
Playback speed .75 🔥
you could play the notes and sing the lyrics, but you're not playing R,L,Burnside. This guy is magic.
How are they able to sing those shaped notes so skillfully?
I hear a lot of Animal Collective influence here
People of color need to vote Democrat. DJT and the MAGAs will take away our freedoms. No one will be safe when they abolish the Constitution. 🙏📜🇺🇸🫏
I think ZZ Top stole this song and it later became one of their top hits “La Grange”
Jimmy Hendrix voice is very similar to
2024 check
That drummer is hard . 💪
Body choice of background “music”😬🫠
LOL that woman look like she's tired of hearing that shit her face tells it all
Look at all those Chinese railroad workers!
Some one sign this man !
AIN"T NEVER BEEN DONE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER DONE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So heavy! OMG
These guys are my heroes
sou sul americano da montanha da serra do espinhaço minas gerais Brasil... ha quarenta anos que eu consumo blues... fodas pro capitão do mato ... kkk
Salute to the Elders ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💎
they are free so or so - read the bible bro =)
yeah main - fucc politics - love fo' evry'one feel this shit
My favorite thing is the zero fret on that guitar
I miss these dance when black men would actually work, nowadays they just stay on the PS5 and worry about when the new J's are coming out. 😅
2024 still here
I'm 72 been playing rockin chair guitar for50 years and I really dig what your doing God bless you
Amen
What ie his tuning,?
0% nudity 0% dancing girls 0% drugs 10% teeth 100% talent
Cold Mountains they are here around me, Cold waters gliding down the stream, Oh, in my sleep I think I find him, But when I wake it's all a dream. True, when I wake and cannot find him, All on my bed I weep and moan, Just like the raindrops without numbering, It's all because I'm left alone. I hate the time when I must leave you, I hate the time when we must part, Oh, though I've loved you without measuring, I'll give my hand you have my heart.
I love playing the electric guitar so I love this song
R.L. Burnside my favorite Delta Bluesman, he learned a lot from Fred Mcdowell and you can hear it in his music. R.L.s smile is so warm and i love how he always flashed it while he played.
They ain't rolling like this in 2024