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"Been All Around This World" explores the breadth and depth of folklorist Alan Lomax's seven decades of field recordings. From the earliest trips he made through the American South with his...
A survey of work songs from around the world, recorded by Alan and John A. Lomax. We narrow the definition of work song to mean specifically...
Been All Around This World has a new co-host! ACE Program Coordinator and Been All Around This World producer Michael Cormier-O'Leary joins...
The last episode of our survey of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings features highlights of sacred performances in the collec...
An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from th...
Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip. 1) Frank Goodwyn & Manuel S...
The Lomax Collection reflects a variety of human experience—from the sacred to the profane, from the rural to the urban, and from the public...
An expansion of our Christmas and New Year episode of a few years back with extra tracks and more all around cheer. Links are to tracks' rec...
Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begi...
(Scroll down for playlist and links to resources mentioned.) This episode provides an introduction to the singers and sites visited by John...
[Bed music:] Sid Hemphill and band: The Death March ( Quitman Co., Mississippi, August 1942 ). Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Hoskins: Ah, Lovely Appearanc...
August 30, 2021, is the 70-year anniversary of the 1951 Edinburgh People’s Festival Ceilidh, the seminal event that heralded and generated t...
Brutality and inhumanity were central to the Southern state prison farms, in their theory and their practice, and of them all, the Mississip...
Sacred Harp -- the four-part shape-note singing tradition long confined to the American South, but recently enjoying remarkable internationa...
1. Sid Hemphill and band: The Carrier Line (or the Carrier song). Sledge, Mississippi, August 1942. 2. Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith: Going...
The Fall 2019 season of the program will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the so-called "Southern Journey" field-recording trip and explo...
1. Villagers of Cáceres, La Mancha: Christmas processional, Christmas Eve 1952 2. Merritt Boddie and Marigolds band: Christmas Machete, Ging...
Topical, protest, and resistance songs from Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Trinidad by way of New York City, Oklahoma by way of California, a...
Songs from and/or of the sea (and one Great Lake), from Italy, Scotland, Grenada, the Georgia Sea Islands, and Lake Michigan. 1. Captain A.H...
The Lomaxes are well-known for the recordings they made of artists who went on to become famous and influential figures in traditional and p...
Dance tunes from Arkansas, Abruzzo, the island of Dominica, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a front porch in the North Carolina Piedmont, and an...
A selection of songs concerning love in its vagaries, timed for Valentine's Day. Performances from Atlanta, Georgia; Cajun Louisiana; Scotla...
In the inaugural episode of "Been All Around This World" we survey Alan Lomax's seven-decade field-recording career, with music from Haiti,...