Alan Lomax's huge historic music archive is online

This is so cool! Cultural Equity

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.

I've just peeked at a few...here's a sampling.........








and many sound recordings...
here's a link toJean Ritchie