Name: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons
Brand: Various

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MOOCHIN22LP

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Includes 22-page Lyric Book. Housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-06-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5051083151184

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Various

Genre GB

Blues / Gospel

Label GB

Moochin' About

<p>Moochin’ About was launched in early 2011 by producer, musician, DJ & Jazz Connoisseur, Jason Lee Lazell. The label initially started out producing the critically acclaimed *Jazz On Film* series and has so far re-issued some classic and forgotten masterpieces, including 1950’s Film Noir scores.</p>

The recordings on this album were made in Texas prison farms in July 1964. Bruce Jackson had gone there in the hope of recording black convict worksongs, a tradition that derived from slavery, and, before that, was imported from Africa. Many of the prisons in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana where such songs had been sung, had been built on the sites of slaverytime plantations. It was as if the owners changed, but not much else.

Bruce found far more than worksongs. Prison is a place where people live: when they go there, they bring with them pieces of free world culture, just as someone migrating from one country to another brings cultural knowledge and practice to the new home. In addition to the worksongs, he heard spirituals, blues, toasts (recited poems), and much more. In this LP, , he tries to give a sense of that range of material. (In other recordings, he would focus on work songs, toasts, and personal narrative.) This iconic album has now been re-mastered and features original artwork in full.

Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons

Music GB