Joshua Clegg Caffery, author of Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana, is a native of Franklin, Louisiana, and is currently a visiting professor in folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington. He was a founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and a longtime member of the Louisiana French band Feufollet. In addition to being nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Feufollet album En Couleurs, he served as the 2013–14 Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
Watch Joshua Caffery speak about the Lomax Recordings on the Library of Congress YouTube channel. A transcript of the lecture is available on LOC's website.
An online archive of all the recordings made by John and Alan Lomax in 1934.
Lomax Recordings
