• Lord, Don't Turn Your Child Away, sung by a quartet of unidentified incarcerated men at Cummins State Farm (now Cummins Unit), Gould, Arkansas. Record...
    "Lord, Don't Turn Your Child Away," sung by a... "Lord, Don't Turn Your Child Away," sung by a quartet of unidentified incarcerated men at Cummins St...
  • John Bishop (filmmaker, ethnologist, and Lomax's nephew-by-marriage) shooting R.L. Burnside driving a tractor for The Land Where the Blues Began. Phot...
    John Bishop (filmmaker, ethnologist, and Loma... John Bishop (filmmaker, ethnologist, and Lomax's nephew-by-marriage) shooting R.L. Burnside driving...
  • 80 years ago today in Quitman Co., Mississippi, Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones recorded multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer Sid Hemphill (1876–...
    80 years ago today in Quitman Co., Mississipp... 80 years ago today in Quitman Co., Mississippi, Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones recorded multi-instrument...
  • 80 years ago today (August 8) in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at a site Lomax identified as the “Delta Tourist Camp” (which may have been the Delta Touris...
    80 years ago today (August 8) in Clarksdale,... 80 years ago today (August 8) in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at a site Lomax identified as the “Delta T...
  • Unidentified young women playing in a string-band at the Lincoln Park #Rodeo, Pittsburg, #Kansas, September 1, 1944. Photo by Alan Lomax. (If he made...
    Unidentified young women playing in a string-... Unidentified young women playing in a string-band at the Lincoln Park #Rodeo, Pittsburg, #Kansas, Se...