Our Singing Country and other aspects of Irish

and other aspects of Irish country life

Corrected 1979 reprint of the second 1963 edition

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Our Singing Country and other aspects of IrishIn the 1930s and 40s, a father and son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke joints, prison yards, and other out of the way places to listen to native singers and to record them for the Library of Congress archives. The Lomaxes