America lies not in its headlined heroes…but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.” No words could be more representative of the career of the speaker, Alan Lomax, the legendary ethnomusicologist who recorded thousands of hours of southern folk music. Lomax’s extensive work over the course of over sixty years not only revived interest in previously obscure artists and genres, but laid the groundwork for later American performers, ranging from blues to folk