1. "Good news. expected and...." In response to Reply # 0
I don't know, I want to excited but not quite. It's one of those things that it's good to know the reference will be there but it's one of those where its so much you'll need a purpose to go in. Otherwise seems like a one time browse that ends up in an anecdote "I was browsing through the Lomax archive and..."
2. "RE: Good news. expected and...." In response to Reply # 1
I hear you - something that's great in concept but perhaps, in the end, not all that useful. The quantity will almost certainly be overwhelming... though maybe some enterprising listener will make a good guide (paging lonesome, ahem...)...
Ives Concord performances I like: - Pierre-Laurent Aimard... it's a little, um, conservative in approach, but it was the first one I heard and so it's stuck with me... available on an Ives disc he did w/Susan Graham, I think
- I actually *just* got a copy Jeremy Denk's new recording, which I've enjoyed quite a bit.
- Marc-Andre Hamelin - this is probably one of the more famous recordings at this point, and it's packaged with a wonderful performance of Barber's piano sonata, so bonus
All 3 of these are easy to get... there are some wonderful performances on vinyl but I think they're mostly OOP. (If this answer seems too long, keep in mind that I've been collecting Ives lps at maximum speed over the past few months, lol...)
4. "Only way to organize it is by trip, at least for field recordings" In response to Reply # 2
Lomax did a lot of concert organizing and presenting in formal settings as well, but the best method seems to me to be to do it chronologically by recording trip. You could then cross-reference to styles, regions (states, cities, general terms like 'delta') so the listener could search by a number of different tags.
Key would be titling each set with a useful identifier that wil give a listener at least some idea of what to expect in the recording, probably a geographic term au 'Southern Journey' + year.
5. "the article was a little unclear" In response to Reply # 3
on whether or not it would be available for *free* streaming, or whether it would all just be accessible online... it did say that some of it would be offered for sale, as well...
6. "awwwww yeaaaahhhhh" In response to Reply # 5 Tue Jan-31-12 03:26 PM by lonesome_d
"About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads. "
interesting article... good seeing that his legacy is being used to accomplish some good things, since over his career he definitely made some questionable decisions (ie Leadbelly contract, multiple copyright issues), albeit ones that were not extraordinary for his time.
Also interesting that it didn't mention his pedigree (the fact that he got his start collection with his pops Johnm, himself a monumental figure in folklore & ethnomusicology).
I'd like to fact check the idea that Lomax was the first to record Woody Guthrie. That might be accurate, I dunno, but I believe Woody was doing radio broadcasts before he met Lomax.
*edit* - seems like the article's right, though I was correct about the radio broadcasts and their relative popularity. imcvspl will like this quote: ""This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." Written by Guthrie in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners of his L.A. radio show "Woody and Lefty Lou" who wanted the words to his recordings."
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