Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons
Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons
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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.
Contents and tracklist
Johnny Jackson - Raise 'Em Up Higher 2.55
Marshall Phillips - Don't Look So Downhearted, Buddy 1.23
Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson - Move Along 'Gator 3.28
Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson - Three Moore Brothers 5.04
Johnnie H. Robinson & Eddie Ray Zachery - Assassination of the President 2.36
George White - Don't Be Uneasy 1.50
Jessie 'G.I. Jazz' Hendricks & Matt Williams - Rattler 5.16
Johnny Jackson - Hammer Ring 1.25
Louis 'Bacon & Porckchop' Houston - T.B. Bees 1.00
Mack Maze - If You See My Mother 1.33
Joseph 'Chinaman' Johnson - Just Like a Tree Planted By the Water 3.50
Houston Page - See How They Done My Lord 2.13
W.D. 'Alec' Alexander - Daniel in the Lion's Den 4.17
Virgil Asbury - Fourt-four Hammers 4.36
