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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: Always Art Down Everything First Give Important Knew Met Real Record Singers Sit Them Thing Tried

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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: American Back Bobby Book Collected Come Days Dylan Folk Folk Music Go He Knew Lived Me Music Next Ought Saying See Sing Songs Used Village

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The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: After Ballads Became Become Blues British Came Commentary Form Hand Human Human Species Kind Main Musical New New Kind Out Satire Song Species Them Which Whole

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He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: About Audiences Country Father Felt Found Great Great Songs He His Learned Out Reaction Sang Songs Them Then Through Tremendous Way Were

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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

~Alan Lomax

Topics: Appeal Away Could Dying Get Governor Half He Hear Him His Literally Mile Naturally Opened Out Pardon Peak Place Recorded Then Up Us You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 31st, 1915

Died: July 19th, 2002

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