Alan Lomax Collection

American South

Lomax recorded throughout the American South, recording for the Library of Congress, with his father and with others, between 1933 and 42. In 1959, upon his return from Europe, Lomax continued making extensive field recordings in the south, recording in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the Georgia Sea Islands.

Almeda Riddle (ballad singer), Arkansas, 1959

Unknown Fiddler from Southern US Field Trip, 1959

Ed Young

Ed Young and Hobart Smith

Alan Lomax

Unknown man with Alan Lomax

Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith

RECORDINGS:

• Bonaparte's Retreat played by William H. Stepp, Kentucky 1937
• Midnight Special played by Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly)
• Sourwood Mountain played by Hobart Smith, Virginia 1959