Near the end of his life, folklorist Alan Lomax recorded a series of interviews with the pianist.
A folklorist who was documenting life in the South, made a recording of Carter leading his fellow inmates in song while they labored under the blazing Mississippi sun.
By the 1680s, British folklorist John Aubrey5 reported that "still in many places... they make fires on the hills: but the Civil Warres6 have put all these rites or customs quite out of fashion7."
