Nathan Salsburg

About

Nathan Salsburg is a guitarist, a producer, and the curator of the Alan Lomax Archive.

Articles

Visions of Coahoma

By Nathan Salsburg

Sundown Man

By Nathan Salsburg

Issue 91, Winter 2015

Got to Ease Up On

For Bessie Jones, music was a means of honoring her enslaved ancestors, as she called them, and uplifting her hard-driven contemporaries.

By Nathan Salsburg

That Look in His Eyes at 4:05

By Nathan Salsburg

Issue 99, Winter 2017

"Camp Nelson Blues"

Eighteen years separated Jim (b. 1872) and Joe (b. 1890), and the brothers would have commanded a broad repertoire that likely incorporated pop songs of the day, rags and cakewalks, banjo breakdowns...

By Nathan Salsburg

Issue 99, Winter 2017

"Wondrous Love" and "Pretty Polly"

It might also serve to commend the music that Glyn Morris and the Pine Mountain singers made to the tradition at large: a reimagining of a reimagining of that tradition.

By Nathan Salsburg

Web Feature

I SHALL NOT WANT

Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917–1927) is a collaboration between the Revenant label and Third Man Records, and has been released roughly 80 years after Paramount, for all intents...

By Nathan Salsburg

Web Feature

It's Only Perfect Because He's Authentic

By Nathan Salsburg

REISSUE: LET ME PLAY THIS FOR YOU

Cajun records of this vintage are among the rarest and most sought after among collectors. Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Music, 1929–1930, assembled by Ron Brown and Christopher King (two of...

By Nathan Salsburg