Pete Seeger was a major figure in America’s folk revival and influenced generations of musicians—including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Bragg. Seeger’s rendition of “We Shall Overcome” ...

The Bones of J.R. Jones - Seba Safe comes to Botanique this month. The performance is set for 11 March. Learn more about the ...

Archivist Alan Lomax said Lead Belly pieced together his 1944 arrangement, using parts from Cecil Sharp’s 1917 version and an earlier cylinder recording from 1925. Geffen Records planned to ...

Look by look, Arianne Phillips is piecing together Bob Dylan’s evolution from “A Complete Unknown” to a cultural icon.

GHEDI: Yeah, that’s right. So, you talked about hearing Harry Cox’s version that Alan Lomax recorded. What struck you about that version the first time you heard it? GHEDI: I was on the Alan ...

Seeger was also an organizer of the Newport (RI) Folk Festival, with a group that included Alan Lomax (Norbert Leo Butz), the great archivist of American folk songs. Mangold’s narrative uses ...

How he’s looking at Joan, how Joan’s looking at him, how Sylvie is backstage. What is Alan Lomax feeling? Where is Pete right now? Where’s Toshi? I think of my job as spinning plates.

Though Seán Ó Riada almost singlehandedly changed the course of Irish traditional music, few people today fully appreciate his massive legacy. The ...

The day before Dylan’s performance, there had been a backstage incident that foreshadowed the clash to come. Alan Lomax had given a grudging introduction to a session by the Paul Butterfield Blues ...

In August 1941, with Waters approaching his 30s, ethnomusicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax paid a visit to the Stovall Plantation. Having been sent on behalf of the Library of Congress to make field ...

A Complete Unknown offers no neat resolutions, just a shrug, a smirk, and a song that might mean everything or nothing at all ...