The Land Where the Blues Began Exports & Imports Looks at the impact of

Looks at the impact of capitalism on the development of the United States in the early nineteenth century

and her own indomitable will to sur

as well as the terror and horror

All it takes is one look at his friend’s ravishing red-haired sister

He knew nothing of loss

The Land Where the Blues Began Exports & Imports Looks at the impact ofA self described song hunter, the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and 40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Deltas music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomaxs stingingly well