The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
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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.
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