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In 1910 John Avery Lomax published "COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS", representing 25 years of collecting songs throughout the American Southwest. Three successive Lomax generations have discovered, recorded, publicized, developed, and promoted the artists and music of America.
Lomaxes' have made significant contributions in each of the following musical genres: Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun/Zydeco, Caribbean/Calypso, Country, Folk, Gospel, Jazz, Rap, RandB, Rock/Pop, Western/Cowboy.
Nine Lomaxes have written fifty-one books and collectively have contributed to hundreds of commercial releases. That?s in addition to the 17,000 field recordings John Avery & Alan Lomax made for the Library of Congress, thus creating and curating their Archive of American Folk Song.
The Lomax's tireless activities in promoting our nation?s musical legacy, now at 113 years, continues!
In the summer of 2021, Dr. Anna Lomax Wood published "SONGS OF EARTH" while John Lomax III, like Dr. Wood a 3rd generation member, launched a performing career as @The Lomax On Lomax Show" in the fall of 2022.
This evening Grateful Fred welcomes John Lomax III to the award-winning Bijou Cinema in Southport town centre.
John is an American journalist, music distributor and manager who has worked with many country music and folk music musicians, such as Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Schnaufer, The Cactus Brothers, Kasey Chambers and many others. In 2010, Lomax was recognized for his work sharing country music with the Jo Walker-Meador International Award by the Country Music Association.
He grew up in a family of folklorists and music researchers, so spent a lot of time listening to music and exploring the Houston music scene when he was younger. He knew Lightnin? Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and many others through his father, John A. Lomax, Jr.
Alan Lomax, John's uncle, was a documentarian of folk music whose recording work exists in the Library of Congress. Alan received the National Medal of Arts in 1986 and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2003.
After a brief stint in New York and a return to Houston, John Lomax moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1973. By the time he moved to Nashville, he already knew most of the Texan singer-songwriters living there who hung around Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt; he also met artists like Rodney Crowell, Steve Young, and Richard Dobson.
Lomax saw Townes Van Zandt play for the first time in Austin, TX when he was attending college. In the mid-70s, he worked with Guy Clark to encourage Van Zandt to move from Colorado to Nashville and John became Van Zandt's manager and managed Van Zandt from 1976-1978.
In 1974, Lomax met Steve Earle. He kept up with Earle for years and eventually worked as his manager from 1983-1986.
John created his SFL record label in 1988 and released two CDs by "America's Dulcimer Champion", David Schnaufer and two multi-track singles by Kimber Clayton, "Jose Cuervo" and "Addicted to Love", both in the late '90s.
In 2017, Lomax III re-discovered tapes of his father singing old folk songs that had since faded out of public memory. He released a collection of sixteen of the solo, acappella recordings on SFL as a CD titled "FOLK".
Why not join us to meet a listen to the songs and stories of a member of one of America's most legendary roots and folk music families.
The evening will take place in the comfort of the 70-seater private Bijou Cinema. As seats are restricted to 70 in total please book early to avoid disappointment.
8 Post Office Ave,
Southport,
Merseyside,
England,
PR9 0US.
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