Negro Prison Songs

Tracklist

• 1
  The Murderer's Home
  0:48
• 2
  No More, My Lord
  2:07
• 3
  Old Alabama
  3:00
• 4
  Black Woman
  2:55
• 5
  Jumpin' Judy
  4:08
• 6
  Whoa Buck
  3:48
• 7
  Prettiest Train
  3:40
• 8
  Old Dollar Mamie
  3:21
• 9
  Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad
  2:36
• 10
  Rosie
  2:47
• 11
  Levee Camp Holler
  2:48
• 12
  What Makes A Work Song Leader?
  2:04
• 13
  Early In The Mornin'
  4:38
• 14
  How I Got In The Penitentiary
  1:22
• 15
  Tangle Eye Blues
  3:04
• 16
  Stackerlee
  4:03
• 17
  Prison Blues
  2:17

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Release credits

• Alan Lomax
  field recordist [1-9, 11-16], producer [1], spoken vocals [12, 14]
• Benny Will Richardson
  lead vocals [7-9, 13]
• C.B. Cook
  vocal [6]
• Henry Jimpson Wallace
  lead vocals [1]
• Little Red
  vocal [13]
• Prisoners at Mississippi State Penitentiary
  background vocals [1, 8], percussion [8]
• W.D. “Bama” Stewart
  spoken vocals [12, 14], vocal [11, 16]
• Walter Jackson
  vocal [13]
• Walter “Tangle Eye” Jackson
  vocal [15]
• Willie Lacey
  vocal [13]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [7, 9], percussion [7, 9]

Issues

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  Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary

  CD
  30 September 2014