"Hey Lally Lally Lo" from Jayme Stone's Folklife album.
Jayme Stone spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner.
Folklorist Herbert Halpert was a colleague of Alan Lomax. In the late 1930s Halpert drove his “soundwagon”—a converted army ambulance—south from Washington, DC to collect folk songs for the Federal Writers’ Project. (Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
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