Lomax Digital Archive features seven decades of roots music research
The Lomax Digital Archive website that provides free access to collections compiled by folklorists Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax.
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The Lomax Digital Archive website that provides free access to collections compiled by folklorists Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax.
12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in li...
Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once wo...