Tag: Jean Ritchie

zzum | Blues enthusiasts and their sound recordings and record productions (7)

In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, Lawrence Gellert, the lomaxes, John Avery Lomax, Edison Cylinder Phonograph, Presto Recorders, Robert Gordon, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Alan Lomax,  balladhunter, Library of Congress, Virginia Lebermann, the Songhunter Documentary, Michael Taft, Cat Iron, Sam Chatmon, Magnecord, Ampex, Kudelski Nagra, RCA D77, Altec Lipstick, Jean Ritchie, George Mitchell, Wollensak recorder, …

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zzun | Blues and Folk enthousiasts: women (6)

In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, Ruby Tartt, Works Progress Administration, John and Alan Lomax, Sumter County (Alabama), Library Of Congress, Vera Hall, Elie Siegmeister, Byron Arnold, Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag, Harold Courlander, Folk Music U.S.A., Ruby Terrill Lomax, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Al Brite, John Heathcock, J.M. Mills, Bess Hawes Lomax, The …

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