In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music from Blues to [Import]

In Prison: Afroamerican Prison Music From Blues to (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Trikont
• ASIN: 3898983560
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #595,243 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Berta

2. Claimin' I'm a Criminal

3. Arkansas State Prison

4. I'm in Jail Again

5. Lone Star Justice

6. Behind Enemy Lines

7. Short Eyes

8. The Court Room

9. Living Proof

10. Work Song

11. I Had Five Long Years

12. Premonition of a Black Prisoner

13. Disrespect Can Wreck

14. Locked Up

15. 16 on Death Row

16. Prisoner's Plea

17. Run Charlie Run

18. Free

19. Pardon Denied Again

Editorial Reviews

No country in the world locks up more of its citizens than the USA and nearly half of the 2.2 million prisoners are African Americans. One out of eight African American men between 20 and 35 is in prison: a circumstance which has serious effects upon African American society and culture - not least upon it's music. This collection brings together work songs of the chain gangs, imprisoned bluesmen like Robert Pete Williams, the prison-soul of the Escorts, the enraged hip hop accusations of Tupac Shakur, Brand Nubian and K-Solo as well as prison songs by Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, the Last Poets, Nina Simone, the Temptations and more. Trikont. 2006.