AFRO~AMERICAN FOLKLORE FROM TEXAS STATE PRISONS, by Various

AFRO~AMERICAN FOLKLORE FROM TEXAS STATE PRISONS

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1.	Raise 'Em up Higher 02:58	buy track
2.	Don't Look so Downhearted 01:26
3.	3 Move Along 'Gator 03:32
4.	Three Moore Brothers 05:06
5.	Assassination of the President 02:39
6.	Don't Be Uneasy 01:53
7.	Rattler 05:18
8.	Hammer Ring 01:27
9.	T.B. Bees 01:04
10.	If You See My Mother 01:36
11.	Just Like a Tree Planted by the Water 03:53
12.	See How They Done My Lord 02:16
13.	Daniel in the Lion's Den 04:21
14.	Forty-Four Hammers 04:38

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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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released September 28, 2019

Recorded and edited by Bruce Jackson
Cover: Eric Von Schmidt
Originally released by Elektra, 1965
Remastering: Nick Blagona, 2018

Tracklist
1: “Raise ’Em Up Higher.” Work song. Ramsey, Unit 1. Johnny Jackson (lead), Houston Page, James W. Hobbs, William Evans. 2:55

2: “Don't Look So Downhearted, Buddy.” Toast. Wynne. Marshall Phillips. 1:23

3. “Move Along ’Gator.” Work song. Ellis. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson (lead), Arthur "Lightning" Sherrod, Jesse Lee Warren, L. Z. Lee, Mack Maze, W. D. "Alec" Alexander. 3:28 (Ellis)

4: “Three Moore Brothers.” Cante-fable. Ellis. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson. 5:04

5: “Assassination of the President.” Topical/gospel. Ramsey, Unit 2). Johnnie H. Robinson (first lead), Eddie Ray Zachery (second lead), Clem A. Martin, Douglas Cannon, James Johnson, Johnnie Adams, Leroy Martindell. 2:36

6: “Don’t Be Uneasy.” Spiritual. The Walls. George White. 1:50

7: “Rattler.” Work song. Ramsey, Unit 1. Jesse "G.I. Jazz" Hendricks (first lead), Matt Williams (second lead), Albert Spencer, C. B. "Snuffy" Kimble, D. J. Miller, David Walker, James A. Champion, James Hampton, Lee Curtis Tyler, Louis "Bacon & Porkchop" Houston, Venesty Weles. 5:16

8: “Hammer Ring.” Work song. Ramsey 1. Johnny Jackson (lead), Houston Page, James W. Hobbs, William Evans. 1:25 (Ramsey Farm, Unit 1)

9: “T.B. Bees.” Toast. Ramsey, Unit 2. Louis "Bacon & Porkchop" Houston. 1:00

10: “If You See My Mother.” Blues. Ellis. Mack Maze. 1:33

11: “Just Like a Tree Planted by the Water” Work song/spiritual. Ellis. Joseph "Chinaman" Johnson (lead), Arthur "Lightning" Sherrod, Jesse Lee Warren, L. Z. Lee, Mack Maze, W. D. "Alec" Alexander. 3:50

12: “See How They Done My Lord.” Spiritual. Houston Page (lead), James W. Hobbs, Johnny Jackson, William Evans. 2:13

13. “Daniel in the Lions’ Den.” Preaching parody. Ellis. W.D. "Alec" Alexander. 4:17

14: “Forty-four Hammers. Work song. Retrieve. Virgil Asbury (lead), Lemon Jefferson, Floyd James, Henry Landers, John Bell, John Gibson, Morgan White .4:36

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