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Land Where the Blues Began
Alan Lomax
Land Where the Blues Began
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop
 
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All Artists: Alan Lomax
Title: Land Where the Blues Began
Members Wishing: 9
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder Select
Original Release Date: 1/1/2002
Re-Release Date: 10/22/2002
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Classic Country, Delta Blues, Traditional Blues, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Europe, Continental Europe, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 682161186122
 

CD Reviews

Folklore Man, Alan Lomax Does It Again!
shoutgrace | Charleston, WV United States | 03/09/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Land Where Blues Began is Alan Lomax's master ensemble of the music that shaped American music. It is the music that influenced the works of Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Ewan McColl and most recent Norah Jones. Take the tour of the Mississippi Delta of the 1930s and 1940s and listen to the story who gave birth to the Blues with such legends as Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and Fred McDowell.

We need more music hunters like Lomax to record our music heritage for future generations. Lomax cross many towns and landscapes to get these first time field recordings of the now Blues greats. Lomax 'cornbread-and-poteen odyssey' across the American heartland is well documented in his candid conversations with the bluesmen and the story of how the blues became daddy of all modern-day music. It's told through those legends and through work songs, hymns, ballads, sermons, stories and smoky bars. The album captures the vivid sounds and the impossible to hold back energy and soul of the Blues fathers that changed American history.

NOTE: The CD is chronicled in the book of the same name by Alan Lomax as an addition to adding to your Blues collection. The book also includes a 4 track CD sampler as well. It won the 1993 National Book Critics Award for nonfiction."