- Child (first marriage): Anne.
- One of the first songs Lomax recorded on return to the USA in 1959, "Po' Lazarus", was featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).
- Musicologist who recorded thousands of songs, in Appalachia and other places, to preserve America's folk music heritage.
- Son of John A. Lomax and Bess Brown Lomax.
- He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1986 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Brother of of Shirley Lomax, John A. Lomax Jr., and Bess Hawes.
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