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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 05:33 AM Oct 2015

Interested 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 region’s 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 OP
Bookmarked and sent on to my fellow music lovers. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #1
Great! Thanks for posting this! n/t livetohike Oct 2015 #2
Oh, hell yes. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #3
And remember the classic folk book Rise Up Singing? Android3.14 Oct 2015 #4
Thanks for sharing. That is a great website for lots of cool stuff. n/t Hotler Oct 2015 #5
Real. American. Music. FailureToCommunicate Oct 2015 #6
K and effing R Scuba Oct 2015 #7

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. Bookmarked and sent on to my fellow music lovers.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 06:39 AM
Oct 2015

I've got a pretty good collection of old blues, this will add to it.

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