“Negro Prison Songs” Mississippi State Penitentiary LP Stereo TLP1020 Alan Lomax
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Description
These recordings were made in 1947 in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman by Alan Lomax. The singers were all Negro prisoners, who, according to the practice of Mississippi, were serving out their time by working on a huge state cotton plantation in the fertile Yazoo Delta. Only a few strands of wire separated the prison from adjoining plantations. Only the sight of an occasional armed guard or a barred window in one of the frame dormitories made one realise that this was a prison. The land produced the same crop; there was the same work for the Negroes to do on both sides of the fence. And there was no Delta Negro who was not aware of how easy it was for him to find himself on the wrong side of those few strands of barbed wire.
This LP has an orange label and was electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo.
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