In 1997 Rounder Records began releasing a 100-plus CD collection drawn from Alan Lomax’s international field recordings, edited and with booklets written by contemporary scholars. The series in this collection are Southern Journey; the Spanish Recordings; Caribbean Voyage; Classic Louisiana Recordings; Portraits; Prison Songs; Christmas Songs; World Library of Folk and Primitive Music; Deep River of Song; Italian Treasury; Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales; Concerts and Radio; and the Songbook series.