This week we hear some amazing prison songs, beginning with historical recordings from Louisiana and Mississippi recorded by Alan Lomax and Dr. Harry Oster in the late 1940’s and 50’s. Lomax captured ...

Work songs and blues recorded, edited and annotated by the editor. Program notes by the editor on container and text ([14] l.) inserted. Performer(s): Composed and performed by various Negro prisoners ...

Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That’s the prevailing premise of director Contessa Gayles’ award-winning Songs From The Hole, a 90-minute documentary on Netflix that ...

No one wants to wind up in prison, but several country artists have had big hits about being in jail. We found four country songs about being in prison, songs that became big hits at country radio.