Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 1: Murderous Home
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1997-09-28
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
- The Murderer's Home - Jimpson & group
- No More, My Lord - Jimpson & axe gang
- Old Alabama - B.B. & group
- Black Woman - B.B. & group
- Jumpin' Judy - Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & group
- Whoa Buck - C.B.
- Prettiest Train - '22'
- Old Dollar Mamie - '22' & group
- It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad - '22' & group
- Rosie - C.B. & axe gang
- Levee Camp Holler - Bama
- What Makes A Work Song Leader? - Interview with Bama
- Early In The Mornin' - '22' with Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair
- How I Got In The Penitentiary - Interview with Bama
- Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
- Stackerlee - Bama
- Prison Blues - Alex
Music reviews of Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 1: Murderous Home
Music Review: One of the great documents of American music.
Rating: 5 Stars
Words fail to describe this incredibly powerful album. I've had a copy since the 60's, and still have an unopened LP copy in my "vault" (along with the first Roberty Johnson LP). Luckily, I don't have to describe the power of the music - you can click on the samples, and hear for yourself.Reams of praise have been heaped on this album, and every word has been an understatement.
If you have any interest whatever in American folk music or in blues or jazz, you either have a copy of this or should get one. This is the absolute peak of Lomax's years of collecting.
Incredibly clean sound for the 40's, all well recorded, musically superb pieces, each a perfect gem of its kind, preserving some of the oldest and best of American music, done by some of the finest singers you've never heard of.
You will listen to this again and again.
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"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 LomaxThis 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 Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?Blues CDs
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