ADVENTURES OF A BALLAD HUNTER.
New York: Macmillan, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 302 pgs, b&w illustrations. When young John Lomax started college just at the beginning of the 20th Century, he always had with him his cowboy songs which his professors told him were cheap hillbilly junk. Eventually, he went to the areas of poverty in the South and especially the hill country of Texas where he discovered rich songs of camp meetings, saloon, and prisons. Ranging from the work songs to Killer Griffin's Calvary sermon in the Texas Penitentary. Very Good in Very Good- DJ. Item #27331
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