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Blues in the Mississippi Night

by: Various Artists

Release Date July 22, 2003
Not long ago a couple of fellow blues cronies of mine and I were having a couple of cold ones and discussing the music that we love so much, when I posed the question: "If you could go back in time and be anyone in blues history, who would you choose to be?" The usual array of legends were the answers I received along with a couple of odd looks along with "Who is he?" when I said I would choose Alan Lomax. For those of you who don't know, Alan Lomax was the fellow who recorded scads of blues, folk and bluegrass artists for the Library Of Congress and was responsible for the first ever recordings of the immortal Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters. The men and women he met, and at times lived with, along with the music he was witness to and recorded ... Read More: