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Angola prisoners' blues.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume 2 Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Charles, Roosevelt, 1919-
Maxey, Mathew.
Webster, Otis.
Welch, Robert, guitarist.
Williams, Robert Pete, 1914-1980.
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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