The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola

Assembled from 27 blocks · 2 evidence · 16 related

1. Story
2. John A. Lomax and his eighteen-year-old son Alan, travelling the South for the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song with a newly issued instantaneous aluminium-disc recorder, reach Angola prison farm in Louisiana and record Huddie Ledbetter. The apparatus and its batteries weighed on the order of three hundred and fifty pounds. The session is the point at which institutional field recording in the United States begins to produce material that commercial catalogues would never have collected — and it begins in a prison, which is a fact about where the collectors expected to find what they were looking for.
3. Knowledge
4. Field recording
5. Alan Lomax
6. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
7. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
8. Connections
9. Alan Lomax
10. Alan Lomax
11. Field recording
12. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
13. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
14. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
15. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
16. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
17. The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
18. Sound recording
19. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
20. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
21. The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
22. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
23. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
24. The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
25. Evidence
26. John A. and Alan Lomax, recording for the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song with a newly supplied instantaneous aluminium-disc recorder, met and recorded Huddie Ledbetter at Angola prison farm in Louisiana in July 1933; the resulting discs and documentation are held at the American Folklife Center. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this Library of Congress research guide; the guide was not opened and no item or call number is cited.
27. The Lomaxes met and recorded Lead Belly at Angola around 16–20 July 1933; Alan Lomax's subsequent collecting spanned more than sixty years and several continents, and included extended 1938 Library of Congress sessions with Jelly Roll Morton. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to the Association for Cultural Equity chronology; the chronology was not opened and no session log was consulted.