He was raised on a farm and lived the life of a Texas farmer for the first 28 years of his life. Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi and grew up in central Texas. John Avery Lomax (September 23rd, 1867 – January 26th, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist. With the help and support of the Library of Congress many (or most) of the collected recordings and images (including videos) of John and Alan Lomax are now available on-line. Edited and expanded from research from Wikipedia and other sources by Leonard Wyeth
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