Browsing: John Lomax

The United States Library of Congress has selected AmericanBluesScene.com for inclusion into the historic collection of Internet materials related to the Performing Arts Archive

Como to celebrate ‘Hill Country Blues’ Feb. 3 as the Alan Lomax Collection gives the small town a piece of it’s own musical heritage — recordings made by the famed musicologist decades ago.

The famed musicologist who made thousands of field recordings, discovering artists such from Muddy Waters to Woodie Guthrie, will finally have a vast amount of his collection freely available in digital format.

Versions of the song “Stagger Lee” have been recorded over 400 times! But who was Stagger Lee? Did he run with Jesse James? What was so magical about his Stetson hat?