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  • Musical Interlude topic for January 2023

    01/01/2023 1:28:46 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 57 replies
    YouTube etc ^ | January 12, 2017 etcetera | PostmodernJukebox et al
    [snip] Joey Cook is back! Check out what we did with Cage The Elephant's "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" from Borderland, also starring clarinetist Jacob Scesney doing a bit of decorating. [/snip]Ain't No Rest For The WickedVintage Jazz | Cage The Elephant Cover ft. Joey CookPostmodernJukebox | 5.86M subscribers7,366,351 views | January 12, 2017
  • Musicologist Alan Lomax Dies

    07/19/2002 6:05:26 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 6 replies · 2+ views
    Associated Press | July 19, 2002 | POLLY ANDERSON
    NEW YORK (AP) - Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, died Friday. He was 87. Lomax died at Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Fla., according to Lisa Kissinger of Vinson Funeral Home. He had moved from New York in 1996 to the Tampa area. He was the son of folklorist John A. Lomax, whose 1910 book "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" was a pioneering work in the field of music preservation. Among the famous songs...