Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons

The recordings on this album were made in Texas prison farms in July 1964. Bruce Jackson had gone there in the hope of recording black convict work-songs, a tradition that derived from slavery, and, before that, was imported from Africa. Whilst there, Bruce found far more than worksongs.

1: Raise 'Em Up Higher - Johnny Jackson
2: Don't Look So Downhearted, Buddy - Marshall Phillips
3: Move Along 'Gator - Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson
4: Three Moore Brothers - Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson
5: Assassination of the President - Johnnie H. Robinson & Eddie Ray Zachery
6: Don't Be Uneasy - George White
7: Rattler - Jessie 'G.I. Jazz' Hendricks & Matt Williams
8: Hammer Ring - Johnny Jackson
9: T.B. Bees - Louis 'Bacon & Porckchop' Houston
10: If You See My Mother - Mack Maze
11: Just Like a Tree Planted By the Water - Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson
12: See How They Done My Lord - Houston Page
13: Daniel in the Lion's Den - W.D. 'Alec' Alexander
14: Fourt-four Hammers - Virgil Asbury

Number of Discs: 1

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