Alan Lomax (1915 - 2002)

American collector of blues,  American folk songs and British folk songs. Also writer on jazz, blues and ethnomusicology.

Collaboration - Alan Lomax and the Ramblers.

Title.year.Label. Number
Alan Lomax and the Ramblers (EP) (*)1957DeccaDFE 6367

(* with Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Shirley Collins, Sandy Brown, John Cole, Bryan Daley, Jim Bray and Alan Sutton)

Anthology - Alan Lomax, Calum McLean and Hamish Henderson.

Title. year. Label. No.
Heather and Glen: Songs and Melodies of Highland and Lowland Scotland 1959 Tradition Records  TLP 1047 
Books by Alan Lomax:
- The Land Where The Blues Began    	(2002)
- Selected Writings 1934 - 1997
- Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole
and Inventor of Jazz 			(1973)
- Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads	(2002)
- Folk Songs Style and Culture 		(1994)
- Penguin Book of American Folk Song

DVDs.

Title year. Label.
Lomax The Songhuneter (*)2007   
(* A film by Rogier Kappers (2004))

Alan Lomax as collector - albums recorded by Alan Lomax.

Title. year. Label. no
Jeannie Robertson: The Queen Among the Heather1998Rounder1161-1720-2
John Strachan: Songs From Aberdeenshire2001Rounder82161-1835-2
Two Gentlemen of the Road (*)2002Rounder82161-1793-2

(* - Jimmy MacBeath and Davie Stewart).

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Last updated on 17/08/2009