Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art

Sources:

https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

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