John Lomax

A Beautiful Dreamer: A Conversation With Suzy Bogguss

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Peter Paul & Mary, Mick Jagger, Vince Gill, Keith Whitley, Merle Haggard, John Lomax, Suzy Boguss, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, Don Cook, Leonard Cohen, Doris Day, John Denver, Chet Atkins, Stephen Foster, Lee Greenwood, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"Listen to your audience. Listen to what they say to you. And figure out if you, too, agree that that is something about you that is special. Then you can start developing it."

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Why Do People Sing? Alan Lomax and His Science of Song

Bob Moses | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Music, Jazz, John Szwed, Jelly Roll Morton, Folk Music, Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Books News
Bob Moses

The search for answers to deceptively simple questions drove Alan Lomax to wander America -- and eventually the world. A new Lomax biography follows his journey.

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Folklore, San Fernando Valley State College, Smithsonian Institution, Folk Arts, Pete Seeger, Jacqueline Steiner, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Mta, John Lomax, Sing It Pretty, Almanac Singers, Bryn Mawr College, Butch Hawes, Alan Lomax, Bess Lomax Hawes, Guitar, National Endowment for the Arts, Walter O'Brien, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Throughout her life, Bess Lomax Hawes was a political radical who fought for a better future, but who also understood the importance of preserving the many cultural traditions of America's past.

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Accused UConn Killer Pleads Not Guilty

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uconn, Uconn Stabbing, Crime, New York, Connecticut, John Lomax, Jasper Howard, Hartford Connecticut, New York News

HARTFORD, Conn. — A man accused of stabbing a University of Connecticut football player to death in October has pleaded not guilty to murder. D...

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