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Angola Prisoners Blues
Release Date: 1996-07-16, Audio CD, Arhoolie Records 
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Angola Prisoners' Blues
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Angola Prisoners' Blues - Various Artists
Description Among the 3800 convicts in the desolate flatland of the prison farm at Angola, Louisiana there were a surprising number of talented performers. Several of them were recorded and interviewed by folklorist Dr. Harry Oster between 1952 and 1960, and some of this material was originally issued on his Folklyric label. These are raw, powerful, largely improvised personal blues stories, as well as traditional songs. This CD release features many previously unreleased items including the haunting...
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Robert Pete Williams Angola Prisoners' Blues
In 1959, a young folklorist and musicologist, Harry Oster, traveled to the State Prison in Angola, Louisiana to collect folksongs. He made a number of field recordings while at the prison, but his biggest discovery was undoubtedly the Louisiana Blues Hall of Famer, Robert Pete Williams, a truly gifted musician and blues writer, who was serving a life sentence. Of the 9 songs on this album, four are by Williams, who sings heart-wrenchingly about prison life and being down and out. Thanks to Oster...
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angola prisoners blues / various ($12.33) (£7.54) (€8.36) (AUD11.58)
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ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS ANGOLA PRISONERS' BLUES (180G IMPORT LP)
ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS - ANGOLA PRISONERS' BLUES (180G IMPORT LP)
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Angola Prisoners' Blues (Lyrics included with album)
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...
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