Ken Irwin,Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton Levy were friends.
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"It is quite possible none of them would be known today, and all the influences they spawned might have never occurred, had Alan not recorded them and worked to popularize them, " said Bill Nowlin, the founder of Rounder Records, which has released dozens of albums of Lomax material.