Root Hog Or Die: 100 Songs, 100 Years, Alan Lomax Tribute 6 x LP Box Set
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Description
Incredible 6 LP compilation. Box, jackets, vinyl and booklet are NM.
Ships safely in dedicated vinyl mailer.
Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide
6 LP’s in their own record sleeves highlighting beautiful photography from the Lomax Archive
Remastered audio by Timothy Stollenwerk
A 28 page booklet with many photos, an essay by Alan Lomax, a chronology of all of Lomax’s field recording trips, and liner notes by Nathan Salsburg.
A heavy duty standard “candy box” style outer box.
2015 marked the centennial of Alan Lomax’s birth and to commemorate it, the Alan Lomax Archive collaborated with Mississippi Records to compile a limited 6-LP box-set, surveying Lomax’s career through 100 songs gathered from fifty years of his field recordings, 1933 to 1983. Root Hog Or Die combines the famous (Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, Margaret Barry) with the unheard (Brother Alec Stamps and the congregation of Rose Hill Missionary Baptist of Greenville, Mississippi; the women’s league of the South Hill Methodist Church in South Hill Village, Anguilla; an adolescent hambone performer in Harlem named Steven Wright) and is the most geographically and stylistically diverse compilation of Lomax’s recordings to date, including artists from Bangladesh, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Spain, and across Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States. More than half of the tracks are previously unreleased, and are accompanied by photographs (many previously unpublished); an introduction and recording chronology by the Lomax Archive’s curator and the set’s compiler Nathan Salsburg; and Alan Lomax's 1976 essay "An Appeal for Cultural Equity."
Mississippi Records is proud to present a box set featuring 100 of his finest field recordings. Previously unreleased tracks by Bob Dylan, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Southern Drum and Fife Corps, Bill Broonzy, Rosa Lee Hill, Dennis McGee, Jean Ritchie, Shirley Collins, Bukka White, Vera Ward Hall, The Georgia Sea Island Singers, Son House and many more. 55 unreleased tracks in all on this set! Also features hard to find tracks by Skip James. Fred McDowell, Almeda Riddle, Duke of Iron, Jeannie Robertson, Bessie Jones, Texas Gladden, and many more.
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