Following in his grandfather's footsteps, Lomax's grandson John Lomax III is a nationally published United States music journalist, author of "Nashville: Music City USA" (1986), "Red Desert Sky" (2001) and co-author of "The Country Music Book" (1988). He is also an artist manager and has represented Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Rocky Hill, David Schnaufer and The Cactus Brothers. He began representing the Dead Ringer Band in 1996. John Lomax III was also a music writer for Houston's early-'70s underground newspaper, Space City!