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Learn more at: http://jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject

Margaret Glaspy, Julian Lage, Brittany Haas, Joe Phillips, Nick Fraser and Jayme Stone

Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this "collaboratory" brings together some of North America's most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea shanties, African-American acappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fisherman, prisoners and homemakers. The new album will be out on Borealis Records on March 3, 2015.