Land Where the Blues Began (Revised)

Description: Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into blues country. A "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" ("Kirkus Reviews"). of photos.

Review Quotes: "Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground."
--Brian Eno

"No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own."
--Nat Hentoff

"If not for Lomax, few people would have heard 'Tom Dooley' or 'Goodnight Irene' and Bob Zimmerman might be singing 'Feelings' at Holiday Inns around Hibbing, Minnesota."
--Newsweek