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Description 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...

Prisoners Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams. Stagolee - Hogman Maxey. Electric Chair Blues - Guitar Welch. Black Night Is Fallin - Hogman Maxey. Some Got Six Months - Robert Pete Williams. Im Gonna Leave You Mama - Guitar Welch. Im Lonesome Blues - Robert Pete Williams. Angola Bound - A Capella Group. Worried Blues - Hogman Maxey. Josephine - Guitar Welch. Soldiers Plea - Clara Young. The Moon Is Rising - Odea Mathews. Im Still In Love With You - Thelma Mae Joseph. I Miss You So ...

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...