This Is a Recording: On Alan Lomax
How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.
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How Alan Lomax became the most significant Baedeker of America’s folkways.
Thelonious Monk was a more nuanced figure than the flimsy characterization of a way-out jazz cat could ever convey.
In Leonard Cohen's Afterworld, the trajectory between the latest hit and the wisdom of old has been a long one.
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