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1	Prison Songs, Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling (1997) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist These were recorded during the same field trips to Parchman Farm that yielded the material heard on Rounder's Prison Songs Vol. 1. Unlike that set, everything here is previously unreleased; what's more, most of the singers on this collection were not heard on the other volume. It's quite similar to Vol. 1, however, in that most of the material is ... see all copies from $14.53! new only from $14.53!
2	Southern Prison Blues and Songs (2007) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.90!
3	Songs of Seduction (2000) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Songs of Seduction is a wonderful compilation of historic and humorously ribald tones from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. Most of the songs are solo, a cappella renditions of centuries-old sexually charged tales -- some cleverly wrapped in metaphor, and some completely forthright. Alan Lomax and others traveled to document these chapters ... see all copies from $29.96! new only from $29.96!
4	Prison Songs, Vol. 1: Murderous Home (1997) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist In the late '40s, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax went to Parchman Farm in Mississippi to record African-American prisoners. This penitentiary was renowned for its anachronistically harsh conditions, and it's something of a miracle that Lomax was allowed in to document the music in the first place. Most of the material was recorded while the men were ... see all copies from $9.99!
5	There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs (2001) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist This various-artists folk compilation is a companion CD to John Cohen's book of photographs, There Is No Eye. Cohen, as many people interested in the music assembled here will already know, is not just a photographer, but also a filmmaker, producer, and musician who was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. Whether or not you have the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
6	Caribbean Voyage: Caribbean Sampler (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist This is the first entry in a multi-volume set exploring the Caribbean side of recordings made by Alan Lomax on his explorations for songs the world over, this batch emanating from 1962. When Lomax went song collecting in the Lesser Antilles -- the chain of small islands that form the southeastern edge of the Caribbean Sea -- these islands were all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.75!
7	Prison Blues of the South: Live at the MS & LA State Penitentiary (1994) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Recorded by Alan Lomax in the early '30s at the Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries, this album is a musicologist's or roots-music lover's dream-come-true. The performers are all inmates, and the only accompaniment to their voices is the rhythmic thud of their picks as they hit the ground. Some of the voices and harmony singing is ... see all copies from $5.97!
8	Carriacou Calaloo (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist As part of his 1962 recordings of music of the Caribbean, Alan Lomax taped music on the small island of Carriacou, just north of Grenada. The island was subject to both French and British rule in the centuries prior to its independence in 1974, and the folk music of the island is a hard to define mixture of British, French, and African influences, ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $14.74!
9	World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 7: India (2002) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist The producers at Rounder Records deserve highest praise for reissuing a body of recordings that document and preserve musical traditions from all over the world. In 1949, Alan Lomax obtained from Goddard Lieberson, the president of Columbia Records, enough financial backing to initiate a global research project involving a number of the most ... see all copies from $17.62! new only from $17.62!
10	World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 5: Yugoslavia (2001) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist In 1951, at a festival for the Yugoslav Council for Science and Culture, Peter Kennedy ran around from stage to stage with a tape recorder collecting sounds from a variety of regional ensembles. Put on at the height of an effort to forge a homogenous Yugoslavian identity from the country's disparate folk arts, the festival brought together a ... see all copies from $22.08! new only from $22.08!
11	Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Recorded by Alan and John Lomax during the late '30s and early '40s, this volume in the Deep River of Song series focuses on work songs, ballads, spirituals, blues shouts, and all kinds of story songs. A companion volume to Deep River of Song: The Blues Lineage, which presented field recordings by Son House, Muddy Waters, and many other Delta ... see all copies from $23.94!
12	Caribbean Voyage: Tombstone Feast (2001) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist This CD deserves a super-duper rating for the musical performances contained herein and not for the position it has been given in the Alan Lomax Collection series, an extensive new millennium project for the Rounder label. A high rating could also be awarded simply for the title of Tombstone Feast, bound to attract its fair share of zombie and ... see all copies from $1.99!
13	Caribbean Voyage: Saraca, Funerary Music of Carriacou (2000) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist The results of musicologist Alan Lomax's recording odyssey through the Caribbean in 1962 largely went unheard with the exception of scholarly research until a huge program of Rounder CD releases began circa 2000. This entry in the series presents music from various wakes and prayer meetings on the tiny island of Carriacou, located slightly north ... see all copies from $16.64! new only from $16.64!
14	Italian Treasury: Liguria-Baiardo and Imperia (2002) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist see all copies from $17.62! new only from $17.62!
15	Caribbean Voyage: Grenada - Creole and Yoruba Voices (2001) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Perhaps the greatest gift of Alan Lomax was that he knew what to record in the field and how to coax marvelous performances from ordinary people. On his 1962 trip through the Caribbean he gleaned some excellent material, never more so than on the island of Grenada. This collection of Creole and Yoruba voices is a gem, most especially the Creole ... see all copies from $4.32! new only from $17.62!
16	Alan Lomax Collection Sampler (1997) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist Each of the major areas of music that Alan Lomax researched is documented on the very, very large Alan Lomax Collection series on Rounder. This sampler album has a short introduction to Lomax's philosophy as he conveyed it to Charles Kuralt before his death. From there, the collection moves into a quartet of tracks from the Southern Journey years, ... see all copies from $7.81!
17	Caribbean Voyage: Martinique (2001) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist In the liner notes to this CD, a pamphlet approaching the thickness of the Swiss train schedule, it is admitted almost immediately that Caribbean Voyage: Martinique is hardly a thorough, balanced, or representative overview of this island's musical culture. History and geography are among the important reasons that so many different styles of ... see all copies from $5.65!
18	Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Another sub-series in Rounder's Alan Lomax collection, these are field recordings documenting African-American life in the Appalachia chain, from the Blue Ridge mountains to the hill country of Northeast Mississippi. It's music that spans from string bands to blues solos and hoedowns to songsters. Performers aboard this collection (recordings made ... see all copies from $69.98!
19	Caribbean Voyage: Dominica - Creole Crossroads (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist The history of the recording industry can be described superficially as the development of mediums with longer and longer playing time. Whether this benefits the pop industry with its three-minute song obsession is questionable, but there's no denying the impact on documentation of world music. Projects such as the Caribbean field recordings of ... see all copies from $12.22! new only from $15.91!
20	Caribbean Voyage: Nevis and St. Kitts Tea Meetings (2002) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Alan Lomax was a folklorist and ethnomusicologist on par with the brilliant Harry Smith. Lomax's collections vary far and wide and the Nevis and St. Kitts album of the Caribbean Voyage series beautifully collects recordings that he and Roger Abrahams made in the Caribbean in 1962. At that time, dance music of the area (including calypso, habanera, ... see all copies from $11.99!
21	Italian Treasury: Lombardia (2005) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist Recorded in 1954, a year that renowned archivist/ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax described as one of the happiest of his life, the Italian Treasury recordings were the first to document old-world/rural Italy in a field setting. Lombardia, a northern region that borders Switzerland, is the second most populous area -- next to Rome -- and is rich in ... see all copies from $6.23!
22	Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year (2000) more music like this by The Alan Lomax Collection add to wishlist see all copies from $12.19!
23	Calypso After Midnight!: The Live Midnight Special Concert (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist A companion volume to "Calypso at Midnight", featuring a transcription of a radio performance from 1946. While some of Alan Lomax's recordings function best as museum pieces, these performances are great fun. Lord Invader, Duke of Iron and Macbeth are on hand with their orchestras. Alan Lomax serves as MC. While the sound quality is uneven, it is ... see all copies from $12.19!
24	World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 8: France (2002) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist see all copies from $99.99!
25	Calypso at Midnight!: The Live Midnight Special Concert (1999) more music like this by Alan Lomax add to wishlist These radio transcripts capture a performance at the Town Hall in New York in 1946. The sound quality is good for the most part, and the performances by such greats as The Duke of Iron, Macbeth the Great and Lord Invader are terrific. Alan Lomax, the host for the evening, adds introductions that lend an air of ethnomusicology, but do not spoil the ... see all copies from $6.27! new only from $6.27!

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