His influences included Jelly Roll Morton, Tommy Dorsey and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Crumb have some 78s of Alan's for doing a picture of Jelly Roll Morton, but this is probably the only time something like this will happen.

WSJ: Historic Lomax Archive Faces the Digital Future

In the decade before World War II, he and his father, the famed folklorist and collector John Lomax, took several historic trips through the South collecting material while working for the Library of Congress, making the first recordings of Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell, and capturing other legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.

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