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Angola prisoners' blues.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Blues (Music)--1951-1960.
- Blues (Music).
- Prisoners' songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, p1996.
- Contents:
- Prisoner's talking blues (Robert Pete Williams) (5:10)
- Stagolee (Hogman Maxey) (3:40)
- Electric chair blues (Guitar Welch) (5:08)
- Black night fallin' (Hogman Maxey) (4:27)
- Some got six months (Robert Pete Williams) (3:44)
- I'm gonna leave you Mama (Guitar Welch) (2:48)
- I'm lonesome blues (Robert Pete Williams) (4:00)
- Angola bound (A Capella Group) (5:50)
- Worried blues (Hogman Maxey) (4:23)
- Josephine (Guitar Welch) (5:11)
- Soldier's plea (Clara Young) (2:55)
- The moon is rising (Odea Mathews) (2:03)
- I'm still in love with you (Thelma Mae Joseph) (1:48)
- I miss you so (vocal group) (3:39)
- Hello, Sue (Butterbeans) (1:10)
- Fast life woman (Hogman Maxey) (4:09)
- Careless love (Otis Webster) (2:39).
- Notes:
- Program notes by Harry Oster; lyrics; musicological notes by Paul B. Crawford on original container.
- Tracks 1-7 originally issued on Folklyric LP A-3 and reissued on Arhoolie LP 2011; tracks 8-20 previously unissued.
- OCLC:
- 697953322
- Publisher Number:
- ASP388822/amso
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