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VA - 1959 - Angola Prisoners' Blues

(1996 Expanded Reissue) [EAC FLAC]






Artist: Various Artists
Title: Angola Prisoners' Blues
Producer: Chris Strachwitz
Format: CD, Compilation, Reissue
Release Date: 1959, (July 16, 1996)
Recorded: 1952 - 1959 at Angola State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana
Label: Arhoolie Records
Catalog: CD 419
Barcode: 0 96297 04192 5
ASIN: B0000001KB
Genre: Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues, Acoustic Louisiana Blues
Duration: 78:45

AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger:
In the '50s, Harry Oster made several recordings of African-American inmates at the penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. 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 hardly a downer record. It's largely first-class acoustic blues with a relaxed (if sometimes sad) dignity. The lyrics are sometimes related to prison life, as in Robert Pete Williams' minor-keyed "Prisoner's Talking Blues" and Guitar Welch's "Electric Chair Blues." Yet much of the material is simply the usual songs of struggle and hope common to the blues, mixed in with some a cappella, spiritual-flavored cuts by female prisoners, and one male vocal group performance clearly derived from doo wop. Guitar blues is the predominant style, though, and country-blues fans will find much to enjoy here, whether they're interested in the folklore aspect or not. Thirteen of the tracks on the CD version were previously unreleased.




01. Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams - 5:10
02. Stagolee - Hogman Maxey - 3:40
03. Electric Chair Blues - Guitar Welch - 5:08
04. Black Night Is Fallin' - Hogman Maxey - 4:27
05. Some Got Six Months - Robert Pete Williams - 3:44
06. I'm Gonna Leave You Mama - Guitar Welch - 2:48
07. I'm Lonesome Blues - Robert Pete Williams - 4:00
08. Angola Bound - Unknown Artist (A Capella Group) - 5:50
09. Worried Blues - Hogman Maxey - 4:23
10. Josephine - Guitar Welch - 5:11
11. Soldier's Plea - Clara Young - 2:55
12. Moon Is Rising, The - Odea Mathews - 2:03
13. I'm Still In Love With You - Thelma Mae Joseph - 1:48
14. I Miss You So - Vocal Group - 3:39
15. Hello, Sue - Butterbeans - 1:10
16. Fast Life Woman - Hogman Maxey - 4:09
17. Careless Love - Otis Webster - 2:39
18. Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone - Roosevelt Charles/Otis Webster - 3:38
19. 61 Highway - Guitar Welch - 4:26
20. Strike At Camp I - Roosevelt Charles - 9:34

Note:
Tracks 1-7 originally issued as "Angola Prisoners' Blues" on Folklyric LP A-3 and reissued on Arhoolie LP 2011. Tracks 8-20 all previously unissued.


Personnel:

Roosevelt Charles - Composer, Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
Jody "Butterbeans" Edwards - Composer, Primary Artist
Thelma Mae Joseph - Composer, Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
A Capella Group - Primary Artist
Odea Mathews Primary Artist, Vocals
Hogman Maxey - Composer, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
Otis Webster - Guitar, Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
Guitar Welch - Composer, Guitar, Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
Robert Pete Williams - Composer, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals
Clara Young - Composer, Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals


Note:
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