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Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection
By Andy Biskin
Label: Andorfin
Released: 2018
Track listing: Sweet Betsy from Pike; Grey Goose; Blue Tail Fly; Down in the Valley; House Carpenter; Go Fish; Lily
Munroe; Tom Dooley; Muskrat; Knock John Booker; Am I Born to Die?; She'll Be Comin’ Round the
Mountain; Sweet Betsy from Pike (Reprise).
Andy Biskin: Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection
by Glenn Astarita
Alan Lomax's (1915-2002) field recordings and research heightened our awareness of folk music, i.e. Americana. He reintroduced many of us to our cultural origins where other musical genres received their humble beginnings. Shortly after graduating college, clarinetist, composer Andy Biskin was Lomax's research assistant. And here, the artist revisits the aura of Lomax's lifelong plight and ...
Andy Biskin 16 Ton: Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection
by Mark Corroto
Maybe you're not the type of American comfortable shouting USA...USA...USA!" at sporting events. You might though, reconsider the prohibition after listening to clarinetist Andy Biskin and 16 Tons' Songs From The Alan Lomax Collection. If you know your history you're aware the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, beginning just before WWII, recorded (and preserved) folk and blues music ...