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.

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.

The book featured the fruits of over eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bell, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, and all three of his ex-wives, and many others.

In 1895, at the age of 28, Lomax entered the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in English literature, and undertaking almost a double course load ( including Greek, Latin and Anglo Saxon ) and was graduated in two years.

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.

Tragedy struck the Lomax family in 1931 when Lomax's beloved wife Bess Brown died at the age of fifty, leaving four children ( the youngest, Bess, only ten years old ).

Through a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, Lomax was able to set out in June 1933 on the first recording expedition under the Library ’ s auspices, with Alan Lomax ( then eighteen years old ) in tow.

John A. Lomax served as president of the Texas Folklore Society for the years 1940 – 41, and 1941 – 42.

In 2010, 100 years after his great-grandfather published his first book, John Nova Lomax published his own first book: Houston's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Bayou City.

Writing over fifty years later, Lomax forgot that he had actually recorded Willie the previous summer with Son House, Fiddlin ' Joe Martin and Leroy Williams.

Some years later, a copy of Linda's recording reached the American musicologist Alan Lomax ; he passed it on to his friend Pete Seeger, who fell in love with it, and it was Seeger who was mainly responsible for popularising the song in the West.

Over the years, prominent members of the American Folklore Society known outside of academic circles have included Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Ben Botkin, Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Jan Harold Brunvand, William Ferris, John Miles Foley and Marius Barbeau.

The term was coined in 1939 in a talk by folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin who, along with Alan Lomax, became the foremost proponent of this approach over the next thirty years.

Despite her willingness to gossip, Ena was very guarded about her private life and resented Martha for discussing her health problems with Ena's daughter, Vera Lomax.

The experience of her life with Lomax and the making of the recordings in religious communities, social gatherings, prisons and chain gangs was described in Collins's book America Over the Water ( published 2004 ).

Lomax defined Cantometrics as the study of singing as normative expressive behavior and maintained that Cantometrics reveals folk performance style to be a " systems-maintaining framework " which models key patterns of co-action in everyday life.

In 2009 Lomax made an appeal bid to have the sentences of Dano Sonnex and Nigel Farmer ( convicted of murdering two French students in London ) increased to whole life tariffs.

* Alan Lomax ( working for the Library of Congress ) discovers Muddy Waters and Son House, among others

Since Alan Lomax's death in 2002, The Association for Cultural Equity, which Lomax founded, has been working to update the program, and make it widely available.

In addition to working on cases of alleged injustices, Lomax writes about unsolved murders in Derby, published in the autumn of 2009.

* Eric Lomax, author of The Railway Man, an autobiography based on these events, which is being made into a film of the same name starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).

* Jackie Lomax – background vocals and handclaps on " Dear Prudence "

" 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.

Lomax General Store on a bluff above the Thompson Branch of the Grand River ( Missouri ).

Also in that year, Colin Petersen produced " Make a Stranger Your Friend " performed by Jonathan Kelly, on which Gibb singing on the chorus with Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones, Klaus Voormann of Plastic Ono Band, Madeleine Bell, three members of The Family Dogg, Jackie Lomax, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and others.

During the New Deal, with his father, famed folklorist and collector John A. Lomax and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

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.

The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A & M and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas.

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.

In 1940, Lomax and his close friend Nicholas Ray went on to write and produce a fifteen-minute program, Back Where I Come From, which aired three nights a week on CBS and featured folk tales, proverbs, prose, and sermons, as well as songs, organized thematically.

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.

Lomax also hosted a folk music show on BBC's home service and organized a skiffle group, Alan Lomax and the Ramblers ( who included Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Shirley Collins, among others ), which appeared on British television.

In Young's opinion, " Lomax put on what is probably the turning point in American folk music.

" In 1947, the day after producing a concert by Slim, Broonzy, and Williamson at New York City's Town Hall, folklorist Alan Lomax brought the three musicians to the Decca studios and recorded with Slim's on vocal and piano.

Alan Lomax foresaw that computers would be an ideal way to make Cantometrics analysis available not just to scholars but to people of all ages and educational backgrounds, particularly school children.

Early collaborators included musicologist Victor Grauer, who was the first co-creator with Lomax of the Cantometrics computer coding system.

As the Federal Writers ' Project's first Folklore Editor, Lomax also directed the gathering of ex-slave narratives and devised a questionnaire for project fieldworkers to use.

One might question the wisdom of selecting Lomax, a white Southerner to direct a project involving the collection of data from black former slaves.

The book was immediately optioned to be made into a Hollywood movie starring Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Lead Belly, but the project was never realized.

Lomax first publicly proposed the Cantometrics project in 1959 and launched a group project in conjunction with the Anthropology Department at Columbia University to implement his vision.