Alan Lomax Archives and PledgeMusic want your help creating 100th anniversary 6LP box set

Alan Lomax Archives and PledgeMusic want your help creating 100th anniversary 6LP box set

Dig it: world-renowned American folk archivist Alan Lomax’s ghost just turned 100 years old the other other day (his early body having been temporarily loaned to this abysmal rock of a planet on January 31, 1915 to be exact), and to celebrate that cold hard fact of hyperawesome musico-cultural immensitude, the Association for Cultural Equity and classier-than-Kickstarter music crowdfunding thingy-thing PledgeMusic are “teaming up to produce a centennial tribute” to the the ramblin’ man who singlehandedly produced… almost as much important music as Sir George Martin!

More specifically (and less sarcastically), the tribute will take the appropriate form of a “100 songs 6-LP box-set (and companion digital download)” that will span the entirety of Lomax’s seven goddamn decades of field recording the shit out of this abysmal rock of a country and will feature “iconic classics alongside previously unreleased and unknown gems from the Alan Lomax Archive.” Sound awesome?

Glad you think so! Then open your wallet and “join the centennial celebration” by making a pledge on Alan Lomax’s PledgeMusic page! When you do, you’ll get rewarded with “behind-the-scenes access to the production of the box-set and the audio mastering by Grammy-winning sound engineer Steve Rosenthal.” You’ll also be granted the esteemed right to help pick the songs for a series of five 7-inch singles that will accompany said box set, as well count yourself among the first to have access to the “rare photos and ephemera picked for the LP booklets.” Natch, all this will give you a “first-hand sense of breathtaking depth and breadth of Lomax’s collections, collected from 1933 to 1991,” not to mention a nice little dopamine reward for donating to a worthy cause and an easy, cool sense of musicological superiority.

By the way, even after the goal of covering the box set’s production costs is reached, any additional funds raised will go to the Association for Cultural Equity, the non-profit research and advocacy center founded by Lomax in 1983 that strives to “preserve and promote Lomax’s life’s work and actively seeks local partners to repatriate his collections to the communities in which they were created.” So, yeah. You’re not off the hook even if it’s all bought and paid for by the time you read this. Cough it up.

• Alan Lomax Archive: http://www.culturalequity.org
• PledgeMusic: http://www.pledgemusic.com

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