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woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax.' And of course many people know the version done by the Grateful Dead for many years at their live gigs. This is our version, recorded live at the Lion's Den Coffee House and Open Mic in Teaneck, NJ on December 26, 2009. Many thanks to ...

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north to Chicago. Muddy (born 1913 as McKinley Morganfield) lived on Stovall, in a very tiny poor wooden cabin, and worked there till 1943. Today, the cabin is displayed at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale MS. Muddy, first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1941, became worldwide known for his "electric blues," he passed away in 1983. In the movie, (June 2009) we pay a visit to the neighbours house of Muddy.... but nobody's home.... a CP & MG production© Soundtrack: Muddy Waters© Stovall ...

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recording, but this is a completely different song. The song might have been lost to obscurity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of a singer and activist called Tilman Cadle. On 15 Sept 1937 he ...

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was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, possibly recorded earliest by The Weavers under the title "Wreck of the John B", the song taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927). Alan Lomax made a field recording of the song in Nassau, 1935, under the title "Histe Up the John B. Sail". This recording appears on the album Bahamas 1935: Chanteys And Anthems From Andros And Cat Island. The song was adapted by Weavers member Lee Hays. ...

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Phyllis Boyens performing an original composition, "The Way My Daddy Laughed and the Way My Mama Smiled" at the home of her parents, Nimrod and Molly Workman, in Mascot, Tennessee, in 1983. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew. Phyllis Sue Boyens Liptak died Dec. 9, 2009, at the age of 62. ... "Nimrod Workman" "Phyllis Boyens" "old-time music" "Alan Lomax" "folk music"

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"Move": Talisman winter show 2009 www.youtube.com "No More My Lord" is an old prison holler from the South and was originally recorded by Alan Lomax in 1949. With an axe chopping wood as his percussion section, a prisoner named Jimpson sung of finding redemption in Jesus. ... "Stanford Talisman" "a cappella" "a capella" "African American music" "world music" "prison holler" "Alan Lomax" "No More My Lord" "American South"

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recording, but this is a completely different song.The song might have been lost to obscurity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of a singer and activist called Tilman Cadle. On 15 Sept 1937 he ...

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"Move": Talisman winter show 2009 www.youtube.com "No More My Lord" is an old prison holler from the South and was originally recorded by Alan Lomax in 1949. With an axe chopping wood as his percussion section, a prisoner named Jimpson sung of finding redemption in Jesus. ... "Stanford Talisman" "a cappella" "a capella" "African American music" "world music" "prison holler" "Alan Lomax" "No More My Lord" "American South"

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received lessons from Robert Johnson, who he knew from a friendship with Robert Lockwood, Jr. He also stated that he was related to Calvin Frazier. In 1941 he traveled to Chicago, IL. and recorded eight songs for the Bluebird label. In 1942, Alan Lomax recorded two more songs from him for The Library of Congress, this time on a plantation in Arkansas. In 1944 he moved to Detroit, MI. along with Baby Boy Warren, where he landed work in the Chevrolet division of General Motors until he retired ...

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The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Folkways remember Bess Lomax Hawes (1921-2009) "I have always had the unshakable belief that every single human being has some knowledge of important elements of beauty and substance, whether everybody else knows them or not." - Bess Lomax Hawes, from her autobiography Sing It Pretty Bess Lomax Hawes, a leader in the establishment of public folklore programs throughout the United States, died Friday, November 27th in ...

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