{"product_id":"alan-lomax-land-where-the-blues-began-book","title":"Alan Lomax - Land Where The Blues Began (Book)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930’s and ‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Land Where the Blues Began\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Lomax’s “stingingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) through America’s musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax’s “discerning reconstructions . . . give life to a domain most of us can never know . . . one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Land Where the Blues Began\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures the irrepressible energy of soul of people who changed American musical history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1993 National Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, Used, mostly nice shape with one torn page\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43191219683390,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0256\/5944\/1214\/files\/lomax.jpg?v=1786512277","url":"https:\/\/antonesrecordshop.com\/products\/alan-lomax-land-where-the-blues-began-book","provider":"Antone’s Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}