Words fail to describe this incredibly powerful album.I've had a copy since the 60's, and still have an unopened LP copy in my "vault" (along with the first Roberty Johnson LP). Luckily, I don't have todescribe the power of the music - you can click on the samples, and hearfor yourself.
Reams of praise have been heaped on this album, and everyword has been an understatement.
If you have any interest whatever inAmerican folk music or in blues or jazz, you either have a copy of this orshould get one. This is the absolute peak of Lomax's years of collecting.
Incredibly clean sound for the 40's, all well recorded, musically superbpieces, each a perfect gem of its kind, preserving some of the oldest andbest of American music, done by some of the finest singers you've neverheard of.
You will listen to this again and again.
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Prison Songs (Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48), Vol. 1: Murderous HomeProduct Description: "These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also 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, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen."
--Alan LomaxThis is a reissue of Alan Lomax's legendary album
Negro Prison Songs in its entirety. A complete CD of previously unissued material from the same field recordings is also available:
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If you've never heard of Alan Lomax, this CD is a great place to start, with bits and pieces of several collections of his field recordings. It touches down in Spain, Italy, the British Isles, the Carribbean, the deep South, the Appalachians, and a few other places, too. But keep in mind that it is a *sampler* album. Many of the tracks are faded out well before the end of the song in order to fit so much onto one CD. Think of it as a catalog: if you hear something you like, you figure out which of the other CDs it's from and go buy it so you can hear the rest. It's fun to listen to by itself, too.
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