Negro Prison Songs From The Mississippi State Penitentiary

Tracklist

• 1
  The Murderer's Home

  Jimpson and Group
  0:52
• 2
  No More, My Lord

  Jimpson and Group
  2:11
• 3
  Old Alabama

  B.B. and Group
  3:04
• 4
  Black Woman

  B.B. and Group
  3:00
• 5
  Jumpin' Judy

  Walter “Tangle Eye” Jackson
  4:13
• 6
  Whoa Buck

  C.B.
  3:54
• 7
  Prettiest Train

  Benny Will Richardson
  3:45
• 8
  Old Dollar Mamie

  Benny Will Richardson
  3:26
• 9
  It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad

  Benny Will Richardson
  2:42
• 10
  Rosie

  C.B. and Axe Gang
  2:51
• 11
  Levee Camp Holler

  D.W. “Bama” Stuart
  2:53
• 12
  What Makes a Work Song Leader? (interview)

  D.W. “Bama” Stuart
  2:08
• 13
  Early in the Mornin'

  Benny Will Richardson, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair
  4:42
• 14
  How I Got in the Penitentiary (interview)

  D.W. “Bama” Stuart
  1:26
• 15
  Tangle Eye Blues

  Walter “Tangle Eye” Jackson
  3:08
• 16
  Stackerlee

  D.W. “Bama” Stuart
  4:07
• 17
  Prison Blues

  Alex
  2:23
• 18
  Duckin' and Dodgin'

  Hogman Maxey
  3:40
• 19
  My Baby Got to Go

  John Henry Jackson
  3:25
• 20
  Penitentiary Blues

  Otis Webster
  2:25
• 21
  Lonesome Blues

  Guitar Welch
  3:31
• 22
  They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

  Jesse Butcher
  3:00
• 23
  Rock Me Mama

  Hogman Maxey
  3:34

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Release credits

• Alan Lomax
  recording, field recordist [1-16], producer [1], spoken vocals [12, 14]
• Alex
  harmonica [17], vocal [17]
• 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

• 

  N
  Negro Prison Songs From The Mississippi State Penitentiary

  12" Vinyl
  1958
• 

  N
  Negro Prison Blues and Songs

  CD
  19 July 1994
• 

  P
  Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm 1947-1948, Volume One: Murderous Home

  CD
  5 August 1997