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Related: About this forumInterested in folk, blues? This is a treasure.
The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Blues & Folk Recordings
among the 17,000 recordings:
Mississippi Prison Recordings 1947 and 1948
"The Lomaxes and other collectors of their time (and also decades later) found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the regions oppressive and violent prison system."
http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/the_alan_lomax_music_archive_now_online.html
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Interested in folk, blues? This is a treasure. (Original Post)
ellenrr
Oct 2015
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. Bookmarked and sent on to my fellow music lovers.
I've got a pretty good collection of old blues, this will add to it.
livetohike
(22,140 posts)2. Great! Thanks for posting this! n/t
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. Oh, hell yes.
Thanks!!!
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)4. And remember the classic folk book Rise Up Singing?
There's a second volume coming out.
https://www.riseupandsing.org/songbooks/rise-again
Hotler
(11,420 posts)5. Thanks for sharing. That is a great website for lots of cool stuff. n/t
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)6. Real. American. Music.
Thank's for the heads up.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)7. K and effing R