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Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. It’s part of what Lomax envisioned for the collection — long before the age of the Internet.

Related: Alan Lomax on Fresh Air

good! saves me the trouble of going to the library, like some neanderthal! 

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    Fact: for a short period of time, my grandmother was Alan Lomax’s secretary.