FTX-916 - STACKALEE
- Penitentiary Blues, Hollers & Work Songs
15 songs with some interviews with the lead singer, recorded by Alan Lomax
at Parchman, Mississippi. Lomax, with his father, had recorded on disc at the
penitentiaries in the thirties, but, in 1947, he went back to record with the
first tape machine that came on the market after the war. He says: "In these
worksongs one feels the incredible vitality of the slave turned John Henry".
The singers are black prisoners, serving time, working on the huge State cotton
plantation.
LAWD, I WOKED UP IN THE MORNING - Talk -EARLY
IN THE MORNING - Talk - TANGLE EYE BLUES - STACKALEE -
PRISON BLUES - MURDERER'S HOME - NO MORE, LAWD -
OLD ALABAMA - BLACK WOMAN - JUMPIN'' JUDY - WHOA BUCK
- PRETTIEST TRAIN - OLD DOLLAR MAMIE - IT MAKES A LONG
TIME MAN FEEL BAD - BE MY WOMAN, ROSIE
