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Lomax the Songhunter full movie is released on Oct 13, 2005. Watch Lomax the Songhunter online - the English Documentary movie from Netherlands. Lomax the Songhunter is directed by Rogier Kappers and created by Rogier Kappers with Peter Kennedy and Alan Lomax. Lomax the Songhunter is available online on OVID and Amazon Video.
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In LOMAX THE SONGHUNTER filmmaker Rogier Kappers follows the route that Lomax took across America and beyond its borders-traveling to remote villages in Spain and Italy, hearing memories and music from the farmers, shepherds and weavers whose songs Lomax recorded decades earlier. The film also tells Lomax's story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, using archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and gathering footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons where Alan Lomax captured America's quintessential music.