Just thought I'd try a catchier subject line, to let people know about the Stephen Colbert show that featured a conversation about the Alan Lomax Collection - and traditional folk music and its contemporary iterations.

They did indeed play a recording that Lomax made of Jean Ritchie singing Nottamun Town, and compared it to a recording he made of Dylan singing his Master's of War, before it was released commercially.

It was a really nice folk moment on contemporary commercial TV, with guests Don Fleming (of the Association for Cultural Equity), Emmylou Harris, and Elvis Costello. Stephen Colbert joins in the singing, of course.

For more comments and the Colbert link, please go to the Alan Lomax Collection online thread. ;-)

~ Becky in Tucson