Johnny Cash, Willie Nix, Various - Banged Up- American Jailhouse Songs 1920's to 1950's

*Jail house songs exist in most musical genres whether it be Country,
Blues, Jazz or Rock 'n' Roll - most of which are represented here on this
excellent album.
*Many of the musicians featured on BANGED UP were born on the wrong side of
the tracks, poverty and other social factors forcing them to use their
instruments as a weapon against the harsh realities of everyday life, or
at the very least reflect what was all about them.
*The places that they played often attracted trouble, whether that be in
the local Bar Room, Speak Easy, or Honky Tonk, crime, drinking and loose
women where never far away. Times were hard - you could be locked up just
for being black on the charge of vagrancy! Many famous musicians have
spent time in prison and some even recorded there, such as Leadbelly and
Johnny Cash.
*These songs from the underbelly of society, though recorded over fifty
years ago, show dramatically how society has not changed much, Prisons are
still being built to cater for the people that society helps to create
-and then cannot handle!

*TRACK LISTING: 1) The Robins - Riot in Cell Block No 9 1954 2) Willie Nix -
Prison Bound Blues 1953   3) Lonesome Pine Fiddlers - Twenty One Years 1952
4) Jimmie Rogers - In The Jailhouse Now 1928 5) Big Maceo - County Jail 1941
6) Bill Cox - Long Chain Charlie Blues 1934 7) Bukka White - Parchman Farm
Blues 1940 8) Delmore Brothers - Lonesome Jailhouse Blues 1933 9) Bessie Smith
- Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair' 1927 10) Bunny Berigan - Prisoner's Song 1937
11)  Richard Berry - The Big Break 1954 12) Jimmie Davis - Penitentiary Bound
1930 13) Leroy Carr - Christmas in Jail, ain't that a Pain 1929 14) Oaklahoma
Tornadoes - La Prison Circa 1940 15) Gene Autry - Dallas County Jail Blues 1931
16) Red Allen - Patrol Wagon Blues 1930 17) Blue Sky Boys - Prisoner's Dream
1938 18) Merline Johnson - Crime Doesn't Pay 1937 19) Alex - Prison Blues
Circa 1940   20) Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 1955

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