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alan lomax: better off dead

Linette was gone tonight. She went to Kim’s wedding shower. She thought that it would just be women, so she went alone and left me here at home to agonize over my next weblog entry. I got a call at...

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Jelly Roll Morton and the gritty origins of jazz

At some point in 1938, while employed by the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song to record and preserve regional American music being put at risk by popular music like jazz, music...

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Bruce Conforth on the real life of Robert Johnson, the real hell of the Rock...

When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly...

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