An interesting thing about the HS approach - as compared to the Lomax apporach - is that HS was interested in commercial recordings, not in going out into the field. Clearly, bot approaches have value.

The Harry Smith approach is puit into action every day in New York's Hudson Valley, by a little commercial radio station, WHVW, 950 AM. The station's owner/chief DJ, "Pirate Joe," plays primarily from his own seemingly inexhaustible collection of roots music 78s. I don't know if there's anything like him elsewhere in America, although I hope there are people like him all over. He's a national treasure on a par with Harry Smith.