Alan Lomax visited Asturias, in northwestern Spain, in the autumn of 1952, making one of the earliest and most extensive field recording trips in the land, as it's said in Spanish, en el fondo del saco - "at the end of everything." While the regime of the dictator Franco was then threatening the traditional expressive diversity of regional Spain in its quixotic quest for a unified national identity, Lomax's recordings succeeded in painting a portrait...