Prision Records Appreciation
CousinLarry
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John Lee Hooker-Live at Soledad Prison I was listening to this over the weekend. Doesnt seem like people do these anymore. Anyone have any favorites?
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Johnny Cash
doooppeee groooooveee
K.
this album has some very intense songs on it.
This series is really good too.
Big Mama Thornton - Jail (Vanguard)
Bobby Valentin - va a la carcel vol 1&2 (Bronco) live in the pen in PR
Cosign on EP @ Sing Sing
I wrote an article a couple years ago on this very topic in The Fader's Vinyl Archaeology column. Dig it up.
--Local Chicago Cook County raw clink funk
Stateville Prison "Jammin In The Joint" LP
--Plenty downstate action with some serious soul vibrations
Upheaval "Paradise Lost" 45
--Wisconsin inmates make top-shelf funk
Edge of Daybreak LP
--Richmond, VA beautifies the inside, Carringtons!
Ohio 511 Jazz Ensemble "Hard Luck Soul" LP
--Dark modal jazz diamond from accomplished players
That's the one.
K.
who has a copy for me?
please.
Lifers Group - The Real Deal (Hollywood Basic)
I love the break on that.
Also dropped another short remix on his Basic Megamix.
That was just a story they made up to sell records. It was just a bunch of English studio musicians.
According to the Soul Walking UK site:
"Ike White's LP is unusual in as much as it would appear that Ike was serving time at the California Department of Corrections in the Tehachapi State Prison at the time of recording! On L.A. International Records from 1976... Big thank you to Superintendant Jerry Enomoto for letting Ike out to record this gem. By the way, none other than Stevie Wonder wrote the sleeve notes on the cover."
Anyone heard this?
SG
I was going to tell you to tell them about this one right there.
For s only
Good LP I liked very much, worth the $10 I paid.... Classic Joints!!!
isn't this like really lo-fidelity?
bobby beausoleil - lucifer rising soundtrack.
i believe he was already in prison when he recorded this?
Peep the review:
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/crates/list.php?category=W&page=2
no-fidelity =
and it sounds like it was recorded through a Bustelo can with a pillow wrapped around it.
Upheaval? Fuggetaboutit
yo I thought these cats where all on death row or somethin, straight killers.... oh well.....
(thanks for setting shit straight though )
yes... he's been in prison since 1969, the tate/labianca killings were supposeddly copycat killings to prove his innocence... also, he played in Love back in the day... and recently contacted my girl to try to show his art at her gallery
that said, it's a pretty good soundtrack...
[/end serial killer geektalk]
oh, and "sacred love" by the bad brains, if no one has mentioned it...