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Roger in Baltimore | What Might Have Been (22) | RE: What Might Have Been | 28 Apr 99 |
What if recording capabilities had been available much earlier and Alan Lomax's grandfather had gone to the Mississippi Delta. We have only hints about what "blues" were like before recording began. We can guess and make hypotheses comparing "blues" to African music of the time, but we do not know for sure. Remember Lomax went to the prison farms hoping to find music unchanged since the time of slavery. He didn't think he found it. |