The 3 Best Been All Around This World Podcast Episodes
1) S1 E1 - I've Been All Around This World
In the inaugural episode of "Been All Around This World" we survey Alan Lomax's seven-decade field-recording career, with music from Haiti, Ireland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and the tiny Caribbean...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) S1 E2 - Baby, It Must Be Love
A selection of songs concerning love in its vagaries, timed for Valentine's Day. Performances from Atlanta, Georgia; Cajun Louisiana; Scotland; Southwest Virginia; Turkmenistan; Eastern Kentucky, and ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) S1 E7 - Sing Christmas
1. Villagers of Cáceres, La Mancha: Christmas processional, Christmas Eve 19522. Merritt Boddie and Marigolds band: Christmas Machete, Gingerland, Nevis, July 19623. Norman Edmonds and the Old-Timers:...Show More
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Wonderful survey of Christmas folk music as recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Includes a 1957 BBC program, hosted by Lomax, spotligh...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) 24 - Shouts on the Threshing Floor: Work Songs
A survey of work songs from around the world, recorded by Alan and John A. Lomax. We narrow the definition of work song to mean specifically those sung to assist in or accompany actual jobs of work. V...Show More
5) 23 - MIX: Alan Lomax in Carriacou, 1962
Been All Around This World has a new co-host! ACE Program Coordinator and Been All Around This World producer Michael Cormier-O'Leary joins Curator Nathan Salsburg in bringing you new episodes of this...Show More
6) 22 - When I Get Home: Sacred songs from the 1939 Texas recordings
The last episode of our survey of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings features highlights of sacred performances in the collection.1) Eulalia Martinez, Paola Lopez, Genoveva Lopez: Glori...Show More
7) 21 - Songs of Christmas, Midwinter, and New Year
An admittedly cursory holiday mix presenting performances from our new digital release, "Songs of Christmas, New Year, and Midwinter from the Lomax Collection," available now on the Lomax Archive's Ba...Show More
8) 20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings
Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip. 1) Frank Goodwyn & Manuel Salinas: Chinese Breakdown (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas,...Show More
9) 19 - Go to Sleepy Little Baby: Lullabies from the Alan Lomax Collection
The Lomax Collection reflects a variety of human experience—from the sacred to the profane, from the rural to the urban, and from the public square to the domestic scene. The Lomaxes recorded lullabie...Show More
10) 18 - Long Hot Summer Days: Work songs from the 1939 Texas recordings
This second episode exploring the 1939 Texas recordings of John A. and Ruby T. Lomax focuses on work songs: selections of "river songs" sung by Black men incarcerated in the prison-farms of the Texas ...Show More