Prison Songs: VOLUME ONE: Murderous Home;Historical Recordings from Parchm

"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen." --Alan Lomax. This is a reissue of Alan Lomax's legendary album, Negro Prison Songs, in its entirety. A complete CD of previously unissued material from the same field recordings is also available:Prison Songs V. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling? (Rounder 1715).

1: The Murderer's Home
2: No More, My Lord
3: Old Alabama
4: Black Woman
5: Jumpin' Judy
6: Whoa Buck
7: Prettiest Train
8: Old Dollar Mamie
9: It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
10: Rosie
11: Levee Camp Holler
12: What Makes A Work Song Leader?
13: Early in the Mornin'
14: How I Got in the Penitentiary
15: Tangle Eye Blues
16: Stackerlee
17: Prison Blues

Number of Discs: 1

Producer: Alan Lomax, Anna L. Chairetakis, Jeffery A. Greenberg

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