Southern Prison Songs 1930-1960

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The Lomaxes and other collectors of their time (and also decades later) found some of the most powerful vernacular music of the American South in the region’s oppressive and violent prison system. The songs they found there, John and Alan Lomax wrote, “or songs like them were formerly sung all over…

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Dangerous Blues – Floyd Batts

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Dollar Mamie – Floyd Batts

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Forty Miles – Leroy Grant

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Eighteen Hammers – Johnny Lee Moore

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I’m Goin Home – W.D. Stewart

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John Henry – Ed Lewis

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Look for me in Louisiana – Henry Ratcliff

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Tom Devil – Take This Hammer – L.C. Hoskins

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