September 24th, 2008 • SEGMENT

From The Show: Guitar Bosses: Les Paul & Honeyboy Edwards

Born in 1915, in Shaw, MS, David "Honeyboy" Edwards has played delta blues over 75 years with artists ranging from Charlie Patton to Muddy Waters. Hear Honeyboy recall the infamous 1927 Mississippi River flood, being recorded by Alan Lomax in 1942, riding the rails to Chicago and more.

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July 16th, 2003 • INTERVIEW:

From The Show: 'Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?': The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation w/Pete Seeger

From the show "'Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?': The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation w/Pete Seeger" originally aired on July 16th, 2003

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December 5th, 2001 • INTERVIEW:

From The Show: Jelly Roll Morton

Pianist Jelly Roll Morton of New Orleans claimed to have invented jazz, and was certainly its first composer. In 1938 with Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress, Morton sketched the origins of jazz in a series of INTERVIEW:s and performances, excerpted here, with commentary from New Orleans clarinetist and researcher Dr. Michael White, and Dan Morganstern, the director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies.

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March 13th, 2013 • FULL SHOW • read more

The Sonic Journey of Alan Lomax: Recording America and the World

American Routes follows the journeys made by folklorist Alan Lomax as he documented the diversity of the traditional music of America, in the face of what he felt was the increased threat by popular "monoculture." We'll look into Lomax's work as a sound recordist, cultural theorist, radio host and above all, shaper of 20th century pop culture through his discoveries.

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September 5th, 2012 • FULL SHOW • read more

Guitar Bosses: Les Paul & Honeyboy Edwards

Tune in and pay witness to over 150 years of guitar experience between this week's nonagenarian guests. Les Paul, the Wizard of Waukesha, talks about his leap from taking up the instrument to inventing the guitar heard 'round the world that bears his name. And Delta guitarist and walking blues encyclopedia Honeyboy Edwards comes by our studio and remembers Robert Johnson, the 1927 flood and recording for Alan Lomax along the way.

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September 24th, 2008 • FULL SHOW • read more

Guitar Bosses: Les Paul & Honeyboy Edwards

Tune in and pay witness to over 150 years of guitar experience between this week's nonagenarian guests. Les Paul, the Wizard of Waukesha, talks about his leap from taking up the instrument to inventing the guitar heard 'round the world that bears his name. And Delta guitarist and walking blues encyclopedia Honeyboy Edwards comes by our studio and remembers Robert Johnson, the 1927 flood and recording for Alan Lomax along the way.

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May 9th, 2007 • FULL SHOW • read more

Guitar Bosses: Les Paul & Honeyboy Edwards

Tune in and pay witness to over 150 years of guitar experience between this week's nonagenarian guests. Les Paul, the Wizard of Waukesha, talks about his leap from taking up the instrument to inventing the guitar heard 'round the world that bears his name. And Delta guitarist and walking blues encyclopedia Honeyboy Edwards comes by our studio and remembers Robert Johnson, the 1927 flood, and recording for Alan Lomax along the way.

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July 16th, 2003 • FULL SHOW • read more

'Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?': The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation w/Pete Seeger

A year after his passing, American Routes remembers Alan Lomax, the great folklorist, musicologist and documentarian. While working mostly for the Library of Congress, Lomax made groundbreaking recordings with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and countless others. Family and friends, contemporaries and musicians recall his many accomplishments. Lomax's sometime collaborator Pete Seeger took a different route as a singer of folksongs. The great social activist, environmentalist, and banjoman, Pete Seeger speaks of his life in music and social justice--two things he's brought together for over 60 years.

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July 16th, 2003 • FROM THE PLAYLIST

'Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?': The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation w/Pete Seeger

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July 14th, 2004 • FROM THE PLAYLIST

Where Have All the Folk Songs Gone?: The Alan Lomax Legacy and a Conversation with Pete Seeger

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