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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

Alan Lomax

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Alan Lomax
Age: 87 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 31
Died: 2002
Died: July 19
Anthropologist
Ethnomusicologist
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Music Critic
Music Historian
Musician
Musicologist
Austin
Texas
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