Mark Maynard | Alan Lomax

Bruce Conforth on the real life of Robert Johnson, the real hell of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what it was like coming of age inside Izzy’s Young’s Folklore Center as the young Bobby Zimmerman hammered out songs on the typewriter in the back room… on episode 44 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | July 6, 2016

When I first started talking with ethnomusicologist Bruce Conforth about the possibility of his being on the show, I wasn’t exactly sure what we’d be talking about. He didn’t seem terribly enthusiastic about the prospect of discussing his time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, where he was the founding curator, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, bare feet, biographies, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Conforth, Cap'n You're So Mean, Cindy Hudson, Cleveland, Cohen brothers, corruption, curation, Dave Van Ronk, Dylan Beckwith, estival of Found Films from the Vault, Etan Patz, ethnomusicology, field recordings, folk, found film, Frank Uhle, Frank Uhler, Gaslight Cafe, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Greenwich Village, Ike Zimmerman, Indiana University, Inside Llewyn Davis, Ivan Kral, Izzy's Young, Izzy's Young's Folklore Center, Jann Wenner, Jazz, Jim Cherewick, John Lomax, kidnapping, Lawrence Gellert, Lead Belly, Mississippi John Hurt, Moody Blues, Nobody Knows My Name, Pete Larson, power trips, record industry, Robert Johnson, Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Rolling Stone, Soft Milk, Son House, Steve Miller, The Mayor of MacDougal Street | 12 Comments

Jelly Roll Morton and the gritty origins of jazz

By Mark | June 4, 2014

At some point in 1938, while employed by the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song to record and preserve regional American music being put at risk by popular music like jazz, music archivist Alan Lomax found himself at a Washington, DC club by the name of the Jungle Inn, one of the few […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Uncategorized | Also tagged brothels, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, folk, Jazz, Jelly Roll Blues, Jelly Roll Morton, Jungle Inn, Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song, murder, New Orleans, nothing new under the sun, oral history, pre-war jazz and blues, rap, sex, Storyville, The Murder Ballad | 11 Comments

alan lomax: better off dead

By Mark | August 12, 2002

Maybe western culture does deserve to be taken out back and shot.

Posted in Other | Also tagged Chan Marshall, Chicago, Daniel Johnston, Deja Vu, Jad Fair, Linette Lao, Matador Records, Meet My Parents, NBC, polygraph, pre-war jazz and blues, Pylon, Ritalin, taxes, Vietnam | 1 Comment

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