Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country, with a new companion CD from Rounder Records.<BR>In an exciting new collaboration, The New Press, Rounder Records, and the Alan Lomax Archive present an unprecedented opportunity to explore the history of the blues. The innovative book-and-CD set combines Lomax's award-winning <I>The Land Where the Blues Began</I>, along with a specially produced companion compact disc containing blues masterpieces.<BR><I>The Land Where the Blues Began</I> is Lomax's "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>) across America's musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax's "discerning reconstructions...give life to a domain most of us can never know...one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread" (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>)