A treasure trove:

The Alan Lomax Database is a free service. This multimedia catalog of the audio and video recordings and photographs made by Alan Lomax from 1946 to 1994 is designed to be an inclusive record of Lomax’s recordings of music and the spoken word; it thus documents all recordings, including interrupted tracks and false starts. It can be searched by performer, song title, geography, culture, genre, subject, instrument, collection, session, and recording date. Users can print out single-page reports of their search results. Photographs taken by Lomax during the field trips are linked to the appropriate sessions and also available in a separate searchable catalog. Every audio recording in the catalog can be heard in samples of forty seconds (music, spoken word) to two minutes (radio shows, discussions, lectures).

The first six collections to go on line are: Texas Gladden & Hobart Smith 1946; Calypso Concert 1946; Mississippi Prison Recordings 1947 and 1948; Big Bill Broonzy 1952; Southern Journey US 1959 and 1960; and Central Park Concert 1965. These will be followed by the remainder of Lomax’s fieldtrips, each to go on-line as they are completed. It will also ultimately include some of the older collections of audio recordings made by Lomax on behalf of the Library of Congress in the 1930’s and 1940’s.