Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboratory brings together some of North America’s most distinctive creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. Repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American acappella singing from Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes, work songs collected from well-known musicians and everyday folk. Collaborators include Grammy-winning songwriter Tim O’Brien, Bruce Molsky, Margaret Glaspy, Moira Smiley, Eli West, Brittany Haas, Julian Lage, Greg Garrison, and more.

Nineteen song, 54-page booklet with extensive song notes, foreword by Grammy-winning scholar Stephen Wade, photo essay by longtime Nonesuch photographer Michael Wilson.

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