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In 1940 under Lomax's supervision, RCA made two groundbreaking suites of commercial folk music recordings: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads and Lead Belly's Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs.
Though they did not sell especially well when released, Lomax's biographer, John Szwed calls these " some of the first concept albums.
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