The great reviver MUSIC Jim Denham looks at the life work of musicologist Alan Lomax, who died last month. When the great blues guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy toured Britain in the 1950s, he was accompanied by the man who had (supposedly) "discovered" him, Alan Lomax. Audiences were dismayed to find that the price of hearing Broonzy included being subjected to a tedious, rambling lecture on the history of American blues and folk music, delivered by Lomax. George Melly describes how, at one point Lomax said "And when you hear Big Bill...", at which the bluesman, as bored as the audience, muttered "If they ever do!".