“For many years the Warners spent every vacation and every scrap of spare cash on their recording trips.
It was a continuous act of unpaid, tender devotion to American folk song and a life-long love affair
with the people who remembered the ballads.
Out of this experience comes [a] ballad hunter’s adventure story—
rich in the stories of how the songs were found and who the singers were.
Their voices and their stories cause American history to resound from these pages—a history of the struggles of working people.”
— Alan Lomax
It was a continuous act of unpaid, tender devotion to American folk song and a life-long love affair
with the people who remembered the ballads.
Out of this experience comes [a] ballad hunter’s adventure story—
rich in the stories of how the songs were found and who the singers were.
Their voices and their stories cause American history to resound from these pages—a history of the struggles of working people.”
— Alan Lomax