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Lomax and now
After Kudrow leaves, Jordan shows the evidence to Lomax and despite his initial doubts, Jordan confirms that the fingerprint markings on it were Pedranski's, now fully validating the evidence against Kudrow.
KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk polemicists Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax, Ira Fistel, Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologists Dr. Toni Grant and David Viscott, and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager ( now with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network ), John and Ken ( on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI ) and Larry Elder ( now back on KABC as a local show ).

Lomax and therefore
He therefore made an arrangement with the Library whereby it would provide recording equipment, obtained for it by Lomax through private grants, in exchange for which he would travel the country making field recordings to be deposited in the Archive of the Library, then the major resource for printed and recorded material in the United States

Lomax and took
When Alan was 10, the family moved to Dallas, where John Lomax took a job selling bonds in a bank.
In a letter to the editor of a British newspaper, Lomax took a writer to task for describing him as a " victim of witch-hunting ", insisting that he was in the UK only to work on his Columbia Project.
They took to the road, camping out by the side of the road to save money, with John Jr. ( and later Alan Lomax ) serving the senior Lomax as driver and personal assistant.
Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The ' Nam in the early 1990s.
Bess Lomax Hawes, who was twenty at the time and did not sing on the John Doe album, writes in her autobiography Sing It Pretty ( 2008 ), that for her part, she had taken the pacifist oath as a girl out repugnance for the senseless brutality of the first World War ( a sentiment shared by many ) and that she took the oath very seriously.
In 2009, Liberia's most experienced surfer, Alfred Lomax, took a reporter to see what he considered the best surfing spots ; from Luke Leitch's Times of London report: "' This here ,' he says pointing out to the waves surging down the beach, ' we call this Camp Point.

Lomax and from
All of the original colour clips were taken from a film capturing the event, Campbell at Coniston by John Lomax, a local amateur filmmaker from Wallasey, England.
" Traditionalists like Sarah Gertrude Knott and John Lomax viewed folk music as cultural traditions from a bygone era.
This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.
Morrison's father bought him his first acoustic guitar when he was eleven, and he learned to play rudimentary chords from the song book, The Carter Family Style, edited by Alan Lomax.
Lomax added that " Culturally, the county was less moonlight-and-magnolias Dixie than a little pocket of Appalachia, where pioneers, often from similarly hardscrabble areas of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, wanted nothing more than to carve homesteads out of the Piney Woods and river thickets, farm a little, maybe raise a scraggly herd of tough cattle to drive to market in New Orleans.
" Lomax added that " hey also wanted to brew up a little whiskey and subsist on the bass, catfish and perch they hauled from the Neches and Angelina rivers and whatever they could trap and shoot on dry land.
" Alan Lomax, wrote: " Anonymous black musicians, longing to grab a train and ride away from their troubles, incorporated the rhythms of the steam locomotive and the moan of their whistles into the new dance music they were playing in jukes and dance halls.
In February 1941, Lomax spoke and gave a demonstration of his program along with talks by Nelson A. Rockefeller from the Pan American Union, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History, at a global conference in Mexico of a thousand broadcasters CBS had sponsore to launch its worldwide programming initiative.
On hearing the news Woody Guthrie wrote Lomax from California, " Too honest again, I suppose?
Lomax spent the 1950s based in London, from where he edited the 18-volume Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, an anthology issued on newly-invented LP records.
" The time has come for Americans not to be ashamed of what we go for, musically, from primitive ballads to rock ' n ' roll songs ", Lomax told the audience.
When Lomax obtained a contract from Atlantic Records to re-record some of the American musicians first recorded in the 1940s, using improved equipment, Collins accompanied him.
* Calypso at Midnight and Calypso After Midnight come from a live recording organized by Alan Lomax in New York in 1946.
According to Fred, his son was named for Lamont Lomax, a ( presumably fictional ) pitcher from the Homestead Grays.
* The Grilles architectural metalwork at Central car park by Tom Lomax in association with pupils from St Patrick's Primary School.
Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.
The Lomax family originally came from England in the 18th century when William Lomax settled in a colony in North Carolina.
In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas.
Lomax used this, along with the money from selling his favorite pony, to pay to further his education.
Their friendship had its ups and downs for years until June 1902, when Lomax met Bess Baumann Brown from Dallas, one of Green's acquaintances.
That year Lomax returned to Texas to be secretary of the Texas Exes, which had become financially independent of the University, so as to avoid further interference from politicians.
After the departure of Robert Gordon from the Library in 1934, John A. Lomax was named Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song, a title he held until his death in 1948.

Lomax and studying
A roommate, future anthropologist, Walter Goldschmidt, recalled Lomax as " frighteningly smart, probably classifiable as a genius ", though Goldschmidt remembers Lomax exploding one night while studying: " Damn it!

Lomax and join
Bundle tells the other two of the warning letter that George Lomax received and that he is holding a house party the next week at his house at Wyvern Abbey and Jimmy and Bundle decide to get themselves an invitation and join in.

Lomax and father's
In hope of reviving his father's spirits, his oldest son, John Lomax Jr. encouraged him to begin a new series of lecture tours.
All four of John ’ s children assisted with his folksong research and with the daily operations of the Archive: Shirley, who performed songs taught to her by her mother ; John Jr., who encouraged his father's association with the Library ; Alan Lomax who accompanied John on field trips and who from 1937 – 42 served as the Archive ’ s first paid ( though very nominally ) employee as Assistant in Charge ; and Bess, who spent her weekends and school vacations copying song texts and doing comparative song research.

Lomax and folk
Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.
Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.
Functionalist folklorists like Botkin and Alan Lomax recognize that, though rooted in the past, folk music remained culturally relevant for the communities that maintained the traditions.
American folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax visited Nevis in 1962 in order to conduct long-term research into the black folk culture of the island.
On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction ( Rounder Select, 2000 ), there's a bawdy Irish folk song called " The Thrashing Machine " sung by tinker Annie O ' Neil, as recorded in the early 20th Century.
The county's first Anglo settlers were what John Nova Lomax described as " Scotch-Irish backwoods folk.
These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector Alan Lomax, whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century.
These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.
Subsequently, the early Delta blues ( as well as other genres ) were extensively recorded by John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax, who criss-crossed the Southern US recording music played and sung by ordinary people helping establish the canon of genres we know today as American folk music.
A group of American archivists and researchers that included John A. Lomax, his son Alan Lomax, poet Carl Sandburg, musician and activist Pete Seeger and others collected, recorded, and published old ballads, prison songs, Appalachian folk music and black blues.
Alan Lomax ( January 15, 1915 – July 19, 2002 ) was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century.
Lomax also produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the U. S and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, ' 50s and early ' 60s.
After 1942, when Congress cut off the Library of Congress's funding for folk song collecting, Lomax continued to collect independently in Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain, as well as the United States, using the latest recording technology, assembling a treasure trove of American and international culture.
In the 1970s and 80s Lomax advised the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival and produced a series of films about folk music, American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
During the fifties, after she and Lomax divorced, she conducted lengthy interviews for Lomax with folk music personalities, including Vera Ward Hall and the Reverend Gary Davis.
In late 1939, Lomax hosted a series on CBS's nationally broadcast American School of the Air, called American Folk Songs and Wellsprings of Music, a music appreciation course that aired daily in the schools and was supposed to highlight links between American folk and classical orchestral music.
The individual programs reached ten million students in 200, 000 U. S. classrooms and was also broadcast in Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska, but both Lomax and his father felt that the concept of the show, which portrayed folk music as mere raw material for orchestral music, was deeply flawed and failed to do justice to vernacular culture.

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