tracks

Prisoner's Talking Blues
Stagolee
Electric Chair Blues
Black Night Is Fallin'
Some Got Six Months
I'm Gonna Leave You Mama
I'm Lonesome Blues
Angola Bound
Worried Blues
Josephine
Soldier's Plea
The Moon Is Rising
I'm Still In Love With You
I Miss You So
Hello, Sue
Fast Life Woman
Careless Love
Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone
61 Highway
Strike At Camp I

notes

Recorded at Angola State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, between 1952 and 1959.

Tracks 1-7 originally issued as "Angola Prisoners' Blues" on Folklyric LP A-3 and reissued on Arhoolie LP 2011. Tracks 8-20 all previously unissued.

Catalog number "CD 419" on rear cover and spine; catalog number "CD-419" on disc face; catalog number "419" on front cover.

© & ℗ 1959 & 1996 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc.

credits

Cover – Wayne Pope
Edited By [Reissue], Reissue Producer, Liner Notes – Chris Strachwitz
Liner Notes [Musicological Notes] – Paul B. Crawford
Recorded By [Assistance] – Richard B. Allen
Recorded By, Photography By, Liner Notes – Dr. Harry Oster,

companies

Glass Mastered At – Nimbus
Copyright (c) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Recorded At – Louisiana State Penitentiary At Angola

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