![]() Lomax, collecting the songs of cowboys and convicts on a 350-pound recording machine built into the trunk of their car. Lomax, born in Texas in 1915, began his journey as a teenager traveling the South and Southwest with his father, John A. Over the course of seven decades, Lomax - writer, folklorist, ethnomusicologist - has single-mindedly pursued the notion that folk culture can be a picture window into the soul of a nation, but that unless someone opens the blinds, elemental truths and ancient histories will disappear and die in the darkness.
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