Wonder What Tomorrow Gonna Bring

A collection of American field recordings, primarily made by John and/or Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. The majority of the recordings were made during Alan Lomax's trip around the American South in 1959, and a few of them were made from John's southern trips in the '30s and '40s. 

Some of the performers had previously recorded commercially in decades past, while other recordings capture amateur musicians at church and other social settings.  

In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South after 10 years abroad to record the still-living stream of traditional music in newly developed stereo sound. The collection features some of the region’s most representative musicians and styles: Delta blues guitarists, fife-and-drum ensembles, Sacred Harp singers, Ozark and Appalachian ballad singers, and prison work gangs. Performers include Sidney Carter, Vera Ward Hall, Sid and Rose Hemphill, Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Wade Ward, Willie Jones, J. E. Mainer, Neal Morris, E. C. Ball, Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, Ed Young, and Mississippi Fred McDowell (his first recordings). English folksinger Shirley Collins assisted Alan Lomax on the 1959 trip, and his daughter, Anna, accompanied him on the 1960 trip. 
- Association of Cultural Equity website