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Murderers' home

Item
Date:
1947; created; 1957;
Subject Terms:
Folk songs; Prisons; Work songs; American south; Prison resistance; Black Americans
Identifier:
IA.ITM.000352
Description
An anthology of negro worksongs compiled by Alan Lomax'
Original recordings made at Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, USA, 1947.

Song titles on record; album notes on back sleeve; booklet with song notes missing. Record side information missing.

Side

Roie
Leave Camp Roller
Early in the morning
Tangle eyes blues
Stackerlee
Prison blues
Sometimes I wonder
Bye Bye baby

Side

Road song
No more my lawd
Katy left Memphis
Old Alabama
Black woman
Jumpin' Judy
Whoa back
Prettiest train
Old dollar mamie
It makes a long time man feel bad






 
Related people
Alan Lomax (curator)
Denis Preston (producer)
Black Prisoners (musician)
PYE Nixa (artist)
Related places
Mississippi (created)
London (published)
Format
vinyl records (format)