High Fidelity - A Century Of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 5 Grassroot Recordings By the 1933s John Lomax is in the Mississippi Delta recording blues singers like Lead Belly and across the next decades folk and traditional music is captured and preserved. From Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan we trace the legacy of songs and tunes handed down the ages like Where Did You Sleep Last Night a Lead Belly song recorded by Nirvana. The story of how sound recording captured the voice songs and stories of grassroots singers in Ireland and across Europe and the US. Featuring the story of Guthries anthem This Land is Your Land.