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Remembering Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) He was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century. Lomax also produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, '50s and early '60s. During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interv