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Negro Prison Blues and Songs
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Track Listing
- Murder's Home
- No More, My Lawd
- Old Alabama
- Black Woman
- Jumpin' Judy
- Whoa Buck
- Prettiest Train
- Old Dollar Mamie
- It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
- Rosie
- Levee Camp Holler
- What Makes a Work Song Leader?
- Early in the Mornin'
- How I Got in the Penitentiary
- Tangle Eye Blues
- Stackerlee
- Prison Blues
- Duckin' and Dodgin'
- My Baby Got to Go
- Penitentiary Blues
- Lonesome Blues
- They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
- Rock Me Mama
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #194523 in Music
- Released on: 1994-07-19
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Live
Customer Reviews
Listen to the clips once, think twice
I wish anybody had mentioned this about this album before I bought it, so I'm telling you: this edition has been post-processed with a reverb that surely wasn't there when Lomax recorded it. Sometimes it's not especially intrusive, but sometimes it's aggressively metallic and artifical. Serves me right for trying to cheap out, and failing to listen to the clips. If this bugs you as it does me, do yourself what I'm going to do next time, buy the Rounder edition of "Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48)".
Great music, no liner notes
This is an excellent recording with almost no context. The liner notes (all of two paragraphs) don't say anything about when the songs were recorded of how Lomax got access to the prisoners. The sound is excellent.
