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Angola Prison Worksongs | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Arhoolie Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 200601
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 096297044827
EAN: 0096297044827
ASIN: B0000001L6
Release Date: October 21, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Berta | | • | Take This Hammer | | • | Stewball | | • | Five Long Years for One Man | | • | Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long | | • | I Had Five Long Years | | • | Early in the Mornin' | | • | All Teamed up in Angola's Mule Lot | | • | I Got a Hurtin' in My Right Side | | • | Let Your Hammer Ring | | • | Cleaning This Highway | | • | John Henry - Traditional | | • | Something Within Me | | • | Jesus Cares | | • | Working on the Levee, Pt. 1 | | • | Working on the Levee, Pt. 2 | | • | Take This Hammer | | • | Pickin' Cotton All Day Long | | • | My Mule "Grey" |
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| Customer Reviews:
Mournful, soulful classic blues January 4, 2003
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Where better to find real blues music than inside a prison? Although myriad earlier folklorists had already mined a various prisonyards for their blues material, these recordings made at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola have a richness and sadness to them that isn't quite conveyed in earlier efforts. Accompanied by work sounds such as shoveling and raking, these people have the same undeniable "authenticity" as the back porch Appalachians so beloved by the Lomaxes, Seegers and other scholars, but with an added layer of misery and hopelessness that makes the music even more compelling. Included in these recordings is the great Robert Pete Williams, who went on to record several excellent albums for the Arhoolie label. Recommended.
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