Bess Lomax Hawes obituary

Singer, folklorist and teacher who was part of a famous American musical dynastyBess Lomax Hawes, who has died aged 88, was a member of one of America's folk music dynasties. Her father, John Lomax, was a folk-song collector who discovered the singer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, and became curator of the Library of Congress's folk-song archive, while her brother, Alan, travelled extensively, both in the US and around the world, in his quest to record folk music. Although overshadowed by her fa...

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