Bluesman Big Joe Williams was born on this day in 1903. Last week we found a tape of a February 1966 song-swap with him, Mable Hillery, and Alan Lomax, rec’d at Alan’s apt by Joan Halifax. Audio: bit.ly/3Vp5t4i 📸 David Gahr/Getty, shot during BJW’s same visit to NYC.

Six decades ago, Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens were not thinking about breaking a glass ceiling by becoming the first women to lead a popular bluegrass band. They just liked to sing together. The duo revolutionized the genre. nyti.ms/3ECEQTF

Belton Sutherland (vocal and guitar) performs an improvised #blues on Clyde Maxwell's porch. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Maxwell's farm near Canton, Mississippi. via .Alan Lomax Archive The Lomax Digital Archive is a free repository of over 20,000 recordings.

The professor is folklorist Bruce Jackson, who has devoted his long career to documenting African American expressive culture and that of incarcerated people. The plagiarism is of a toast he recorded given by Slim Wilson at the Missouri State Pen in 1964. theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/…

Scientific journal PLOS ONE has just published the paper, “The Global Jukebox: A Public Database of Performing Arts and Culture” by Drs. Anna L. Wood, Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage.bsky.social), et al. It's a deep dive into the data behind the GJB and worth a read! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Resource Alerts: Resilience, Reframing, Actions - The Association for Cultural Equity Alan Lomax Archive and their Educational Resources page have dozens of lesson plans and learning content for students & teachers exploring cultural content & music culturalequity.org/resources/for-…

Inniú Lá Idirnáisiúnta na bPíobaí Uilleann! Enjoy a playlist of tunes played on the uilleann pipes to celebrate International Uilleann Piping Day 2022 itma.ie/features/playl… #iupd2022 #itmatrad Louise Mulcahy Na Píobairí Uilleann

Wow - over 300,000 views, 25,000 likes & 10,000 retweets for the The Global Jukebox!!! Check it out for yourself: 👉theglobaljukebox.org (free streaming audio etc.) 👉journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… (free [#OpenAccess] peer-reviewed article) 🎶🌎🥰

Remembering R.L. Burnside, born on this day in 1926 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Here he is playing "See My Jumper Hanging on the Line" at his home in 1978. Thanks to Alan Lomax Archive for preserving this performance.

Alan Lomax was born Jan. 31, 1915. Of all his eventful years, "the happiest of my life" was spent recording in Italy with Diego Carpitella, who took these photos of him: in the village of San Giorgio, in Friuli (Sep. 1954) and in a marble quarry in Carrara, Tuscany (Dec. 1954).

Sharing this clip of Lois Short performing ‘Little Birdie’ at her home in Closplint, Kentucky on July 24th, 1983. #HappyInternationalWomensDay

“As embodied modes of culture, singing and music making… became resources for all humankind as it confronted the ruptures, challenges, and trials—and also the opportunities—of modernity. The vestigial could be an asset for the novel… the archaic a tool for the future.”

John A. and Ruby T. Lomax's 1939 Texas recordings — new online collection, new podcast episode, new exhibit: archive.culturalequity.org/texas-1939

Join us tomorrow night at 7pm for the inaugural meeting of our "Tradition Talks" speaker series with our distinguished guest Nicka Sewell-Smith. Register for the talk here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…