Southern Prison Songs 1930-1960

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The Lomaxes and other collectors of their time (and also decades later) found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the regions oppressive and violent prison system. The songs they found there, John and Alan Lomax wrote, or songs like them were formerly sung all over the South. With the coming of the machines, however, the work gangs were broken up. The songs then followed group labor into its last retreat the road gang and the penitentiary (Our Singing Country, 1941). Bruce Jackson, writing about prison song in the 1960s, explains, Southern agricultural penitentiaries were in many respects replicas of nineteenth-century plantations, where groups of slaves did arduous work by hand, supervised by white men with guns and constant threat of awful physical punishment. It is hardly surprising that the music of plantation culture the work songs went to the prisons as well. The tie-tamping and wood-cutting chants, field hollers, and the occasional blues recorded by Alan Lomax on paper-backed tape at Mississippis Parchman Penitentiary in 1947 and 1948 remain among the most vivid documents of this genre of African American song.

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I’m Going To Memphis – Percy Wilson and unidentified prisoners

01/03/2019 Duração: 01min

:: Title :: I’m Going To Memphis :: Genre :: prison song, work song :: Performers & Instruments :: Unidentified prisoners [vocal] Wilson, Percy (Buzzard) [vocal] :: Setting :: Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) :: Location :: Lambert (Quitman County), Mississippi (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., African … Continue reading "I’m Going To Memphis – Percy Wilson and unidentified prisoners"

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Forty Miles – Leroy Grant

01/03/2019 Duração: 01min

:: Title :: Forty Miles :: Genre :: holler, prison song :: Performers & Instruments :: Grant, Leroy [vocal] :: Setting :: Parchman Farm, Camp 7 :: Location :: Parchman (Sunflower County), Mississippi (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi :: Session :: Parchman 9/59 (Camp 7) :: … Continue reading "Forty Miles – Leroy Grant"

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Eighteen Hammers – Johnny Lee Moore

01/03/2019 Duração: 02min

:: Title :: Eighteen Hammers :: Genre :: prison song, work song :: Performers & Instruments :: Moore, Johnny Lee [hoe, vocal]Unidentified prisoners [hoe, vocal] :: Setting :: Parchman Farm, Camp B :: Location :: Parchman (Sunflower County), Mississippi (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi :: Session … Continue reading "Eighteen Hammers – Johnny Lee Moore"

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Boats Up The River (fragment) – Camp 11, Parchman, Mississippi, September the 16th

01/03/2019 Duração: 52s

:: Title :: Boats Up The River (fragment) :: Genre :: prison song, work song :: Performers & Instruments :: Unidentified prisoners [axe, vocal] :: Setting :: Parchman Farm, Camp 11 :: Location :: Parchman (Sunflower County), Mississippi (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi :: Session :: … Continue reading "Boats Up The River (fragment) – Camp 11, Parchman, Mississippi, September the 16th"

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Almost Done (On A Monday)

01/03/2019 Duração: 02min

:: Title :: Almost Done (On A Monday) :: Genre :: ballad, blues, blues ballad, prison song :: Performers & Instruments :: Lomax, Alan [vocal] :: Setting :: Unspecified :: Location :: Greenwich Village, New York City (New York), New York (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., Anglo-American, Texas :: … Continue reading "Almost Done (On A Monday)"

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(Look For Me In) Louisiana – Henry Ratcliff

01/03/2019 Duração: 01min

:: Title :: (Look For Me In) Louisiana :: Genre :: holler, prison song :: Performers & Instruments :: Ratcliff, Henry [vocal] :: Setting :: Parchman Farm, Camp 7 :: Location :: Parchman (Sunflower County), Mississippi (United States) :: Language :: English :: Culture :: Southern U.S., African American, Mississippi :: Session :: Parchman 9/59 … Continue reading "(Look For Me In) Louisiana – Henry Ratcliff"

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I’m Goin’ Home – W.D. Stewart

20/01/2019 Duração: 02min

These recordings were made in late 1947 at the Lambert Camp at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm. Some were originally issued by Tradition on a 1958 LP entitled "Negro Prison Songs" and they are currently available on CD in two volumes - "Prison Songs" - as part of the Alan Lomax Collection on Rounder Records.

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I Been Havin’ Troubles – Heuston Earms

23/10/2018 Duração: 04min

A holler composed on the spot by the great Heuston Earms at Camp B in Parchman Farm. 1959.

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Interview with Heuston Earms about singing and his time in prison

23/10/2018 Duração: 03min

Interview with Heuston Earms about singing and his time in prison. Questions and recording by Alan Lomax. 1959.

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Stewball – Ed Lewis and Unidentified Prisoners

23/10/2018 Duração: 05min

Classic holler from Camp B at Parchman Farm also known as Mississippi State Penitentiary. Recorded in 1959.

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Poor Lazarus – Clyde Jones and Unidentified Prisoners

23/10/2018 Duração: 02min

Poor Lazarus was a popular holler in the southern prison camps after Reconstruction. This was recorded in 1959 at Parchman Farm, Camp 7.

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Dollar Mamie – Floyd Batts and Unidentified Prisoners

23/10/2018 Duração: 05min

A beautiful harmony by Floyd Batts and three other men from camp 11 at Parchman in 1959.

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Tom Devil / Take This Hammer – L.C. Hoskins and Unidentified Prisoners

23/10/2018 Duração: 05min

Another holler from camp 11 at Parchman Farm in 1959

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Downtown Money Waster (Levee Camp Holler) – Johnny Lee Moore

19/10/2018 Duração: 03min

Johnny Lee Moore sings Downtown Money Waster and talked with Lomax about how he learned the song in Camp B at Parchman Farm.

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Alberta (Berta, Berta) – Leroy Miller and Unidentified Prisoners

19/10/2018 Duração: 04min

Camp songs and hollers from Parchman Prison also known as Mississippi State Peneteniary Alberta (Berta, Berta) - Leroy Miller and Unidentified Prisoners

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Dangerous Blues – Floyd Batts

19/10/2018 Duração: 01min

Work songs and hollers recorded at Camp 11 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm in 1959. This is Dangerous Blues by Floyd Batts

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Black Gal – Ed Lewis and Unidentified Prisoners

19/10/2018 Duração: 03min

Black Gal is a work songs/holler recorded at Camp B at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm. Performed by Ed Lewis and other unidentified prisoners.

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John Henry – Ed Lewis

19/10/2018 Duração: 04min

Old prison work song performed by Ed Lewis at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, MS in 1959

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Ain’t Been Able to Get Back Home No More (Rosie) – Heuston Earms

19/10/2018 Duração: 03min

Ain't Been Able to Get Back Home No More (Rosie) performed by Heuston Earms at Camp B at Parchman 1959

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