sentences:  "From the offices in the UNM Music Department to the dance hall across the street from the Rainbow Bar in Cuba, New Mexico, Robb recorded anyone who was willing to spend the time singing and playing for him" .This effort would ultimately result in nearly 3,000 field recordings of traditional music from the American Southwest, Nepal, and South America, which form the core of the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music at the University of New Mexico .In addition to a commitment to preserve traditional songs and song forms that might otherwise be lost, Robb turned to those songs as inspiration for his own compositions.