Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into Blues country.
Winner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, The Land Where the Blues Began is now available in a handsome new paperback edition..
The Land Where the Blues Began captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history. one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread ( The New York Times Book Review ). . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . .
Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape Where their music was born, Lomax\'s discerning reconstructions .
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax\'s stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey (Kirkus Reviews) through America\'s musical heartland.
Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets Where the Blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him.
A self-described song-hunter, the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930\'s and \'40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta\'s music heritage. of photos.
A singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey (Kirkus Reviews).
Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into Blues country
