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The Southern Journey is the popular name given to a field-recording trip around the Southern States of the US by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. He was accompanied on the trip by his then-lover, English folk singer Shirley Collins.
Between August 1959 and May 1960, folklorist Alan Lomax took a trip through the American South—dubbed “The Southern Journey”— to record the little-known southern backcountry and blues music that we consider uniquely American.
Pioneering the use of stereo recording in the field, Alan Lomax made his “Southern Journey” in 1959–60, returning to the rural South (after 10 years abroad) and rediscovering its still-vital traditions.
A voyage of the road and the mind, pioneering the use of stereo recording in the field, Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey“ is a 12-volume LP series of original recordings evoking the musical world of the rural South and an era before radio, movies and television.
Apr 16, 2015 · Consider one vignette of many: the “ Southern Journey ,” a 1959-1960 recording trip that Alan Lomax undertook with Shirley Collins throughout Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
Jan 20, 2013 · January 20, 2013. By 1959, when Alan Lomax embarked on a search for undiscovered folksingers and musicians in the South, he had long been famous for his recordings of artists like Muddy Waters...
Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey" 1959-1960. [Attached to this page (left hand column) are some of the recordings that have been issued from the this recording trip. Issued first were seven LPs for Atlantic, which were released as the “Southern Folk Heritage Series.”
