Prepping for his latest album, Canadian banjo player and bandleader Jayme Stone visited the Library of Congress to see the archives of Alan Lomax, the folklorist who traveled the South — and wide ...

Alan Lomax believed every culture has a "right … to equal time on the air and equal time in the classroom." As director of the Library of Congress, Archive of American Folk-Song and as a radio and ...

Longmont banjo player Jayme Stone holds an old recording from the Alan Lomax collection. "Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project" puts a new spin on old music. The new album from the Longmont banjo player and 14 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - DJ John Lomax visits KSLA’s studio to speak with ArkLaTex Artistry about the third installment of his Strange Music for Nice People. On April 26, at 8 p.m., DJ Lomax the Grey ...

The latest endeavor from Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone takes the famous folklorist, song-collector, and culture sleuth Alan Lomax as its polestar, but the Lomax Project isn’t simply homage. Stone ...

It’s safe to say the foresight of John Lomax, assisted by 1934 technology, accomplished what the musicologist set out to do with the field recordings he made some 80 years ago in south Louisiana. And ...

When the firetruck showed up at John Avery Lomax Jr.'s West University Place home, the flames out back were 30 feet high. This was in the 1950s. Lomax Jr. had collected discarded Christmas trees from ...

The single most important and transformative figure in 20th-century American music is arguably not a musician at all. Sure, a case could be made for the likes of Bob Dylan, Hank Williams or James ...