Blues From The Bighouse

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Blues From The Bighouse

If the blues is born out of hardship and struggle, then the State Penitentiaries of the Southern USA states would likely be the ultimate breeding ground.

These prisons were basically southern plantations where African-American prisoners were forced to do gruelling physical labor under the poorest conditions.

These authentic recordings were made in the forties and fifties in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

The singers were all negro prisoners and the only crime they committed was being black en being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This double album is an ultimate blues experiment.

CD1

01. Murder's Home
02. No More, My Lawd
03. Old Alabama
04. Black Woman
05. Jumpin' Judy
06. Whoa Buck
07. Prettiest Train
08. Old Dollar Mamie
09. Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
10. Rosie
11. Levee Camp Holler
12. What Makes a Work Song Leader?
13. Early in the Mornin'
14. How I Got in the Penitentiary
15. Tangle Eye Blues
16. Stackerlee
17. Prison Blues

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CD2

01. Duckin' and Dodgin'
02. My Baby's Got to Go
03. Penitentiary Blues
04. Lonesome Blues
05. They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
06. Rock Me Mama
07. Boll Weevil Blues
08. Hard-Headed Woman
09. Standing at the Greyhound Bus Station
10. Tell Me Pretty Baby
11. Ball and Chain For Me
12. Bad Luck Blues
13. Goin' Home to My Old Used to Be

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