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Last Cavalier
John A. Lomax was an American original, a man of intellect, tireless ambition, visionary zeal, and vast contradictions. Perhaps best known as a pioneer American folklorist, he was also a successful businessman, an influential educator, and the patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars whose work continues to influence American culture on both popular and academic levels.
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
In 1908 John Lomax set out on horseback with an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders to record and preserve America's folk music. He spent the next four decades doing some hard travelling and found over 5,000 songs in Arkansas mountain cabins, Mississippi prison farms, New Orleans saloons, Minnesota lumber camps and Texas cattle camps. He discovered ballads, blues, children's songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs and his recordings inspired generations of musicians from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to Billy Bragg and Kurt Cobain. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is Lomax's own memoir of an eventful life containing vibrant, ofte...
Home on the Range
As a child, John Avery Lomax loved the songs he heard the cowboys singing along the nearby Chisholm Trail. He began writing them down at an early age. As John grew older, he traveled the country collecting and recording cowboy songs, helping to preserve many favorites.
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Alan Lomax
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio & TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. John Szwed's biography tells the story of this remarkable and contradictory man - whom he both knew and worked with for ten years.
Adventures of a Ballard Hunter
"John Lomax grew up next to the Chisholm Trail and, as a child, was captivated by the songs of passing cowboys. He grew up to collect and record over 5,000 songs as well as discovering the Blues legend Lead Belly. Included are the stories behind some of the twentieth-century's most famous songs: how Lomax heard `Rockland Island Line' at the Arkansas Penitentiary; the convict who sang `The Midnight Special' at Parchman Convict Farm; discovering `Casey Jones' in a saloon in Deming, New Mexico ; how Lomax found the spiritual classic `Honey in the Rock' sung by a Funeral Home choir in Columbia, South Carolina. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is an endlessly interesting record of a remarkable life. From the early years on the road and Lomax's amusing, sometimes haunting, stories of the people who sang those songs to the history that behind this folk culture."--Provided by publisher.
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
The "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp" does not purport to be an anthology of Western verse. As its title indicates, the contents of the book are limited to attempts, more or less poetic, in translating scenes connected with the life of a cowboy. The volume is in reality a by-product of my earlier collection, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads." In the former book I put together what seemed to me to be the best of the songs created and sung by the cowboys as they went about their work. In making the collection, the cowboys often sang or sent to me songs which I recognized as having already been in print; although the singer usually said that some other cowboy had sung the song to...
The Man Who Recorded the World
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste, Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south, recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are the core of the sound-tracks of Oh Brother, Where art Thou? and Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby's Play. John Szwed's biography is the first ever of this remarkable and contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on Miles Davis.
The Land where the Blues Began
Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, this mususical and cultural exploration of the rich, sorrow-laden birth of the blues is an intimate and respectful look at an integral part of African American culture--a master work that has been 60 years in the making. Photos.
The Mobile and the Ring - The John Lomax Story
John Lomax is forced to use his mobile phone in public on a crowded train, after a bad weekend at home. He hates people who show off in this way. His conversation is overheard and his life changes forever as people use information against him. DCI Sandy Lane enters his life and it spirals out of control. The women involved play a subtle and increasingly vital role and control changes hands. John's friend, The Biker, is called upon to help and he has to use all his guile and cunning to prevent catastrophe.
