'Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone': The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation w/ Pete Seeger
A year after his passing, American Routes remembers Alan Lomax, the great folklorist, musicologist and documentarian. While working mostly for the Library of Congress, Lomax made groundbreaking recordings with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and countless others. Family and friends, contemporaries and musicians recall his many accomplishments. Lomax’s sometime collaborator Pete Seeger took a different route as a singer of folksongs. The great social activist, environmentalist, and banjoman, Pete Seeger speaks of his life in music and social justice—two things he’s brought together for over 60 years.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Before This Time Another Year Bessie Jones and Group
Southern Journey Vol.12: Georgia Sea Islands, Rounder
Forest City Jump Forest City Joe
Sounds of the South, Atlantic
Dancing Around the World Lomax Radio
Jimmy Peters and the Ring Dance Singers
Clifton Chenier
CLIP: Jelly Roll Morton INTERVIEW: at the piano in the Library of Congress
Mr. Jelly Lord Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot, RCA
Instrumental: Midnight Special Jimmy Smith
Midnight Special, Blue Note
Good Morning Blues Lead Belly
Bourgeois Blues, Smithsonian Folkways
Midnight Special Harry Belafonte
Greatest Hits, RCA
CLIP: Sister Rosetta Tharp PSA
CLIP: Woody Guthrie with Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress
Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
California Stars Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
Instrumental: End Credits Jeff Tweedy & Glenn Kotche
Chelsea Walls soundtrack, Ryko
INTERVIEW: John Cohen
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down New Lost City Ramblers
Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom 1950-1970, Rhino
The Girl I Left Behind Spencer Moore
Alan Lomax Collection Sampler, Rounder
INTERVIEW: Alan Lomax
The Titanic Bessie Jones
Southern Journey Vol.8: Velvet Voices, Rounder
CLIP: Lomax's world music recordings from Spain, Italy, England
Brown Girl in the Ring Caribbean Voyage: Brown Girl in the Ring
Go Down Old Hannah Ernest Williams and Group
Land Where The Blues Began, Rounder
Dancing Around the World Lomax Radio
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: If I Had A Hammer Pete Seeger
Greatest Hits, Columbia
If I Had A Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You, Fuel 2000
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Johnny Rivers
Anthology 1964-1977, Rhino
Soldier, Soldier Natalie Merchant
The House Carpenter's Daughter, Myth
I've Got a Secret (Didn't We Shake Sugaree) Fred Neil
Everybody's Talkin', Capitol
Shake Sugaree Elizabeth Cotten
Shake Sugaree, Vol.2, Folkways
Sugaree Jerry Garcia
Garcia, Arista
Instrumental: Nashville Skyline Rag Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline, Columbia
I Ain't Got No Home Bob Dylan
A Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Warner
Don't Think Twice Johnny Cash
The Folk Years: A Singers and Songwriters Collection, Time Life
Stagolee Mississippi John Hurt
The Immortal, Vanguard
Here Am I, Oh Lord, Send Me Alvin Youngblood Heart
Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the music of Mississippi John Hurt, Vanguard
Blowin' in the Wind Steve Wonder
Greatest Hits, Vol.1, Motown
Instrumental: John Henry Tommy Jarrell
The Legacy of Tommy Jarrell Vol.3, County
INTERVIEW: Pete Seeger
Blowin' in the Wind Arlo Guthrie
Live at Alan Lomax Tribute Concert, NYC, April 2003
Midnight Special Pete Seeger and ensemble
Live at Alan Lomax Tribute Concert, NYC, April 2003
End Bed: Amazing Grace John Fahey
America, Takoma