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Lomax Project

Jayme Stone

Album · 2015

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project (Borealis Records BCD235, 2015) is a studio album from Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone built around songs collected by American folklorist Alan Lomax — Bahamian sea shanties, African American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes, and work songs — recast for a rotating ensemble of acoustic musicians. Stone plays banjo throughout; Brittany Haas plays fiddle; Julian Lage plays guitar; Joe Phillips holds the double bass; Margaret Glaspy sings; and Nick Fraser plays drums, with additional contributions from Bruce Molsky, Tim O'Brien, Eli West, Moira Smiley, and others across the nineteen tracks. The album is accompanied by a fifty-two-page booklet drawing from Lomax's ethnographic writings. Stone's interpretive approach treats the Lomax archive as living material rather than museum artifact, bringing the collected field recordings into contemporary acoustic performance through arrangements that honor the traditions' underlying structures while releasing them from period reproduction.

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