Release Date:September 11, 2007 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping:International shipping available Condition:Brand New - Sealed - Ships First Class
Tracks:
Disc 1
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Murder's Home - sung by "Jimpson" & five others
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No More, My Lawd - sung by "Jimpson" and men with axes
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Old Alabama - sung by "B.B" and six others
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Black Woman - sung by "B.B". and six others
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Jumpin' Judy - sung by "Tangle Eye", "Fuzzy Red", "Hard Hair" and others
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Whoa Buck - sung by "C.B."
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Prettiest Train - sung by "22" with group
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Old Dollar Mamie - sung by "22" with group
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Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad - sung by "22" with group
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Rosie - sung by "C.B." and ten others with axes
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Levee Camp Holler - sung by "Bama"
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What Makes A Work Song Leader? - Interview with prisoners
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Early In The Mornin' - sung by "22", "Little Red", "Tangle Eye" and
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How I Got In The Penitentiary - (Interview)
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Tangle Eye Blues - sung by "Tangle Eye"
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Stackerlee - sung by "Bama"
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Prison Blues - sung and played on harmonica by "Alex"
Disc 2
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Duckin' And Dodgin' - Hogman Maxey
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My Baby's Got To Go - John Henry Jackson
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Penitentiary Blues - Otis Webster
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Lonesome Blues - Guitar Welch
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They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone - Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch
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Rock Me Mama - Hogman Maxey
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Boll Weevil Blues - Guitar Welch
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Hard-Headed Woman - Hogman Maxey
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Standing At The Greyhound Bus Station - Otis Webster
Album Description These songs are as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved it, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies. These songs are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. Even more importantly, they tell us much of the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen. Here is the dark, fertile soil that gave rise to the blues. Indeed, these recordings, made in the heart of the Delta where the blues took shape at the turn of the century, provide the background for America's most important song-form.
