Global Underground #06 Alan Lomax Archives

The tape recordings of legendary American folk musician, musicologist, and recordist Alan Lomax have begun to be digitized and made available online. Today we dive in and make a few selections, with music from America, the Caribbean, the British Isles, Romania, the USSR and elsewhere, all recorded between 1946-1965.

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Playlist:
Lord Invader – Rum & Coca-Cola – Trinidad, December 1946
Mississippi’s Parchman Penitentiary Inmates – Stewball – USA, December 1947
Vera Hall – Railroad Bill – USA,
Jack Armstrong and His Northumbrian Barnstormers – The Shepherd’s Wife – UK
Lucita Rosita Rodríguez – Ei de ir a siegas a Lugo – Spain, November 1952
Jose Maria Rodríguez – Orense para ciclista – Spain, November 1952
Alan Lomax – Railroad Bill – USA
Sidney Hemphill Carter – Worried Now – USA, September 1959
Hobart Smith – Railroad Bill – USA, August 1959
Quadrille group – When I Go I’ll Tell My Mama – Grenada, August 1962
Unknown Buryat Performers – Aiarzoonoi, Baiarzoonoi – USSR
Gurbandurdy Jeng Ienov – Wake Up Now – Turkmenistan
Huseiin Abbasov – Shepherd’s Song + Interview – Azerbaijan
Unidentified Romanian Performers – Unidentified with Horns and Singing – Romania, 1964
Reverend Gary Davis – Twelve Stick Rag – USA, 1965
Reverend Gary Davis – Buck Dance – USA, 1965
Sayat Nova Project – Ashiq Alesker – Georgia, 2014