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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax

American Writer

Born: Jan 31, 1915

Died: Jul 19, 2002

Appeal Away Back Could Half Satire

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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art. Alan Lomax

Art First Important Met Sit Down Everything Tried Record Give Knew Singers Always Real Them Thing

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax

Music Saying Me Book Ought Back Collected Folk Folk Music See Songs He Knew Days Come Sing Go American Dylan Bobby Next Used Village Lived

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. Alan Lomax

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. Alan Lomax

You Half Out Pardon Recorded Could He Opened Him Hear His Governor Up Get Literally Dying Place Then Us Mile Naturally Appeal Away Peak

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