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    Aug 13, 2020 3 minutes
    By Andrew Mueller

    SOUTHERN JOURNEY (REVISITED)

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    7/10

    Back to Alan Lomax’s Dixie – with a subtly understated agenda.

    THE original Southern Journey was a schlep undertaken by the American musicologist Alan Lomax in 1959. He and his then partner, English folksinger Shirley Collins, lugged an Ampex 601 reel-to-reel recorder though Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina, collecting performances by church choirs, jug bands, chain gangs, barroom warblers, front-porch crooners and assorted other guitar-pluckers, harp-blowers and banjo-botherers. Lomax and Collins’ recordings were

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