On the YouTube home page today, in the right-hand column under "Spotlight", the Tuesday feature is videos posted by the Alan Lomax Archive.

Music Tuesday: An American Patchwork

"Before YouTube, Americans performed mainly for each other at home -- until ethnomusicologists like Alan Lomax showed up, first with tape recorders and later with video equipment. Lomax captured amazing, hidden worlds of American music -- and now you can see his discoveries at youtube.com/AlanLomaxArchive."

Links are given there to videos of bluesman R.L. Burnside, fiddler Tommy Jarrell, vocal effects and bottle by Fred "Junior" Thomas, and singer Shiela Kay Adams.

(Thanks to the American Folklife Center for the tip via Facebook.)

~ Becky in Long Beach