Time: 34:02
Size: 77.9 MB
Styles: Assorted blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front
[4:51] 1. Gaye Adegbalola - Jail House Blues
[4:54] 2. Billy Boy Arnold - Prisoner's Plea
[3:03] 3. Big Leon Brooks - Thirteen Years In Prison
[5:09] 4. Lonnie Mack - Cincinnati Jail
[4:47] 5. The Kinsey Report - Down In The Dungeon
[4:17] 6. The Holmes Brothers - Three Gray Walls
[3:36] 7. Charlie Musselwhite - Cook County Blues
[3:23] 8. Clarence Gatemouth Brown - My Own Prison
Songs of prison and captivity shaped what we have come to know as the blues. Angela Davis suggests that imprisonment was a central theme in blues music. This is borne out over and over. One of my favorite musicians, the great John Lee Hooker (who Bonnie Rait re-introduced to the mainstream in the 1990s) recorded his version of Prison Bound in 1949. In the song, he tackles the important ideas of the separation from loved ones and the sense of abandonment that can come from being incarcerated.
When they had my trial, baby
You know you couldn’t be found
When they had my trial
Baby, you could not be found
But it’s too late to cry, baby
Your daddy’s prison bound
~Prison Industrial Complex
When they had my trial, baby
You know you couldn’t be found
When they had my trial
Baby, you could not be found
But it’s too late to cry, baby
Your daddy’s prison bound
~Prison Industrial Complex
Alligator Records Playlists: Prison Songs mc
Alligator Records Playlists: Prison Songs zippy
