Various Artists: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various - VINYL LP

Various Artists: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various - VINYL LP

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Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons / Various

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Moochin About

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

5051083151184

Genre:

Blues

Release Date:

2019-10-25

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

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

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