Alan Lomax's American Patchwork, by Various Artists

Alan Lomax's American Patchwork

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2xLP set in deluxe gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes by Nathan Salsburg of the Lomax Archive. First edition, 160 gram black vinyl pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago, includes in-depth liner notes and heavy gatefold jacket.

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A stunning 2xLP collection of music documented during Alan Lomax’s final American field recording sessions from 1978 to 1983. A completely overlooked and underrepresented period in American folk and blues history, this album includes legendary performances by RL Burnside, Napoleon Strickland, Boyd Rivers, Tommy Jarrell, and many more, newly remastered and released on vinyl for the first time!

From 1978 to 1983, Alan Lomax and a video-crew travelled through the American South and Southwest, documenting its traditional music — miners, moonshiners, and Primitive Baptists in Kentucky; flat-footers, string bands, and Piedmont blues in North Carolina; Cajun cowboys, fiddlers, and zydeco stompers in French-speaking Louisiana; and fife-and-drum ensembles, gospel quartets, former railroad track-liners, levee-camp muleskinners, and players on the pre-war blues circuit in Mississippi.

This footage ultimately totaled some 350 hours and was edited into Lomax's "American Patchwork" series, which aired on American public television in 1991. But given the strictures of the form, hundreds of discrete performances and compelling scenes were left unseen and unheard.

This set brings together some of the standout recordings Lomax made in his attempt to document the last vestiges of the “local surround” in Mississippi, Appalachia, and Louisiana. Intimate performances by R.L. Burnside, Tommy Jarrell, Boyd Rivers, Napoleon Strickland and more, newly remastered by Timothy Stollenwerk and never before released on vinyl.

Album includes extensive liner notes by Nathan Salsburg of the Alan Lomax Archive.

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released April 12, 2021

Compiled by Nathan Salsburg and Cyrus Moussavi
Track notes by Nathan Salsburg
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
Front cover painting: Joe Light, Too Pretty, 1988
© 2020 Estate of Joe Light / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Graphic design by Gordon Ashworth
Cover production by Dan Fried

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