Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.
Vol. 1 - Virginia 1936-1941 (1997)
Vol. 2 - North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas 1926-1943 (1997)
Vol. 3 - Mississippi 1936-1942 (1997)
Vol. 4 - Mississippi & Alabama 1934-1942 (1997)
Vol. 5 - Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas 1933-1940 (1997)
Vol. 6 - Texas 1933-1958 (1997)
Vol. 7 - Florida 1935-1936 (1998)
Vol. 8 - Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi 1934-1947 (1998)
Vol. 9 - Georgia, South & North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky 1924-1939 (1998)
Vols. 10 & 11 - 1933-1941 (2CD) (1998)
Vol. 12 - Virginia & South Carolina 1936-1940 (1998)
Vol. 13 - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Delaware 1933-1943 (1998)
Vol. 14 - Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky 1934-c.1950 (1999)
Vol. 15 - 'Rock Me, Shake Me' - Mississippi 1941-1942 (2002)
Vol. 16 - 'Boll Weevil Here, Boll Weevil Everywhere' - 1934-1940 (2004)
Vol. 17 - Son House - Library of Congress Recordings 1941-1942 (2012)