Angola Prisoners' Blues music CDs Product Description
Angola Prisoners' Blues CD music In the '50s, Harry Oster made several recordings of African-American inmates at the penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. Angola Prisoners' Blues music CDs These sessions are primarily remembered for the discovery of Robert Pete Williams, but Oster also found several other acoustic blues performers of merit. Several of them are featured on this 20-track, 80-minute CD (which includes three tracks by Williams). Although these singers had hard daily lives and went through hard times before they were jailed, this is ...See Full Description
Angola Prisoners' Blues Album Track Listing
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Song
Time
Price
1
Prisoner's Talking Blues See All 3 (with with Robert Pete Williams)
2
Stagolee See All 15 (with with "Hogman" Maxey, “Hogman" Maxey, Hogman Maxey)
3
Electric Chair Blues See All 4 (with with Guitar Welch)
4
Black Night Is Fallin' (with with "Hogman" Maxey, “Hogman" Maxey, Hogman Maxey)
5
Some Got Six Months (with with Robert Pete Williams)
6
I'm Gonna Leave You Mama (with with Guitar Welch)
7
I'm Lonesome Blues (with with Robert Pete Williams)
8
Angola Bound (with with Capella Group)
9
Worried Blues *See All 45 (with with "Hogman" Maxey, “Hogman" Maxey, Hogman Maxey)
Angola Prisoners' Blues songs. In the film DEEP BLUES that was a companion to the late music scholar Robert Palmer's book of the same name, the world at large got its first glimpse of Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside. Hailing from that state's rural, depressed ...
Angola Prisoners' Blues album. Digitally remastered by Ron McMaster (Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood,
THE COMPLETE ALADDIN RECORDINGS collects all 43 of Lightnin' Hopkins' tracks for Aladdin, a Los Angeles-based label that was the first to record the legendary Texas bluesman. One might be amazed at ...
Angola Prisoners' Blues CD music. Because this is an all-instrumental recording, it's an offbeat entry into the catalog of a performer known both as an important guitarist and as a singer. Some might miss Davis' vocals on this 1964 recording, but on the other hand ...
Angola Prisoners' Blues music CDs. In the 1960s when the folk revival began to recognize country blues as an important art form, Arhoolie was there to capture it all on tape. It perhaps seems odd in retrospect that a number of scholars and collectors feared ...
Angola Prisoners' Blues songs. Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana in the late 1950's.
In the late '50s, folklorist Dr. Harry Oster made tapes of African-American inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, LA. Bluesman Robert Pete ...
This is the real thing....real LA blues I first heard this record in the LSU library in 1960. I kept goin back for years to listen because its real and its good.(I played blues for 50 years.) Robert Pete is wonderfull; but ... By a reviewer
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