Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various
Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various
Label: Moochin About
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5051083151184
Genre: Blues
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 worksongs, a tradition that derived from slavery, and, before that, was imported from Africa. Many of the prisons in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana where such songs had been sung, had been built on the sites of slaverytime plantations. It was as if the owners changed, but not much else. Bruce found far more than worksongs. Prison is a place where people live: when they go there, they bring with them pieces of free world culture, just as someone migrating from one country to another brings cultural knowledge and practice to the new home. In addition to the worksongs, he heard spirituals, blues, toasts (recited poems), and much more. In this LP, he tries to give a sense of that range of material. (In other recordings, he would focus on work songs, toasts, and personal narrative.) This iconic album has now been re-mastered and features original artwork in full
Tracks:
1.1 Raise 'Em Up Higher
1.2 Don't Look So Downhearted, Buddy
1.3 Move Along 'Gator
1.4 Three Moore Brothers
1.5 Assassination of the President
1.6 Don't Be Uneasy
1.7 Rattler
1.8 Hammer Ring
1.9 T.B. Bees
1.10 If You See My Mother
1.11 Just Like a Tree Planted By the Water
1.12 See How They Done My Lord
1.13 Daniel in the Lions' Den
1.14 Forty-Four Hammers
