LPH 948 - U. S. Prison Mix (1924-74)

[Lucky Psychic Hut, 2026; #948]


tracklist:

(1924) Bessie Smith + Buster Bailey, Don Redman, Fred Longshaw - Sing Sing Prison Blues
(1925) Sol Hoopi - The Prisoner's Song
(1926) Robert Higgins - Prison Blues
(1927) 'Dock' Boggs + Hub Mahaffey - New Prisoner's Song
(1927) Ernest Phipps + His Holiness Quartet - Happy in Prison
(1928) Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues
(1928) Ernest V. Stoneman + His Dixie Mountaineers - The Prisoner's Lament
(1928) The Tenneva Ramblers - Seven Long Years in Prison
(1928) Unknown from Georgia - Prison Bound Blues
(1932) Jimmie Tarlton + Tom Darby - 13 Years in Kilbie Prison
(1932) Matthew McClure + Roosevelt Sykes - Prisoner's Blues
(1934) Amédé Ardoin - Les Blues Prison
(1936) Ozella Jones - Prisoner Blues
(1938) The Carter Family - Happy in Prison
(1939) Aunt Molly Jackson - Prisoner's Call
(1951) Bill Monroe + His Blue Grass Boys - Prisoner's Song
(1954) William Burn Stick - Cree Prisoner's Song
(1960) Leo + Valentino Lecapa - The Prisoner's Song Tewa
(1960) Lightnin' Hopkins - Prison Blues Come Down on Me
(1960) Sonny Terry + Brownie McGhee - Prison Bound
(1960) Sunnyland Slim - I'm Prison Bound
(1964) Roscoe Holcomb - Rock Island Prison
(1974) The Carrière Brothers - Les barres de la prison

total time: 63'03


Imprisoned by Lucky.
Cover photo "Jail Cell Door and Welded Iron Bars #12", 2018 by Allan Swart (taken from Fine Art America).
Dedicated to us prisoners.