We'll spend two hours discovering the treasures found in Root Hog Or Die - a 6 LP box set featuring 100 of Alan Lomax's finest field recordings.
This box set will be available as a Thank YOU gift for becoming a KBOO member, and includes previously unreleased tracks by Bob Dylan, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Southern Drum and Fife Corps, Bill Broonzy, Rosa Lee Hill, Dennis McGee, Jean Ritchie, Shirley Collins, Bukka White, Vera Ward Hall, The Georgia Sea Island Singers, Son House and hard to find tracks by Skip James. Fred McDowell, Almeda Riddle, Duke of Iron, Jeannie Robertson, Bessie Jones, Texas Gladden, and many more.
More than half of the tracks are previously unreleased, and are accompanied in the box by photographs (many previously unpublished) and an introductory essay and recording chronology by the Archive's curator and the set's compiler Nathan Salsburg.
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