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Various Artists - Afro-American Folklore from Texas State Prisons '2019

Afro-American Folklore from Texas State Prisons
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Album name Afro-American Folklore from Texas State Prisons
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Date 2019
Genrework songs
Play time 42 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 229 MB
PriceDownload $1.95
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Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, is an album recorded in 1964 by
folklorist Bruce Jackson. The LP features work songs, blues, spirituals,
preaching and toasts (recited poems) performed by a group of inmates in the Lone
Star State’s then-segregated agricultural prison farms. The recordings on
this album were made in Texas prison farms in July 1964. Bruce 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...

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Tracklist:
1.01 - Johnny Jackson - Raise 'Em up Higher (Work Song) (2:59)
1.02 - Wynne - Marshall Phillips - Don't Look so Downhearted, Buddy (Toast)
(1:26)
1.03 - Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson - Move Along 'Gator (Work Song) (3:32)
1.04 - Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson - Three Moore Brothers (Cante-Fable) (5:06)
1.05 - Johnnie H. Robinson - Assassination of the President (Topical Gospel)
(2:40)
1.06 - G.I. Jazz" Hendricks - Don't Be Uneasy (Spiritual) (1:54)
1.07 - Johnny Jackson - Rattler (Work Song) (5:18)
1.08 - Louis "Bacon & Porkchop" Houston - Hammer Ring (Work Song) (1:27)
1.09 - Mack Maze - T.B. Bees (Toast) (1:05)
1.10 - Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson - If You See My Mother (1:36)
1.11 - Elmer Bernstein - Just Like a Tree Planted by the W (Work Song) (3:53)
1.12 - Houston Page - See How They Done My Lord (Spiritual) (2:17)
1.13 - W.D. "Alec" Alexander - Daniel in the Lion's Den (Preaching Parody)
(4:21)
1.14 - Virgil Asbury - Forty Four Hammers (Work Song) (4:39)

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