Parchman 9/59 (Camp B)

September 19, 1959 to September 20, 1959
Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
Work songs and hollers recorded at Camp B at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm.

Berta (I)

Stewball (I)

Black Gal

Berta (II)

Talk/ambience

John Henry

Stewball (II)

Poor Lazarus

I'll Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down

Eighteen Hammers

Levee Camp Holler (Downtown Money Waster)

Levee Camp Holler

Interview with Ed Lewis about his levee camp holler

Poor Lazarus

Interview with James Carter, Heuston Earms, and other prisoners about Poor Lazarus

Dollar Mamie

Tom Devil

Interview with Ed Lewis about work songs, song leaders, Parchman nicknames, and his biography

John Henry

Rosie (Camp A style)

Interview with Heuston Earms about different styles of Rosie

Rosie (Camp B style)

Interview with Heuston Earms about Camp C's Rosie

Rosie (Camp C style)

Interview with Heuston Earms about good work song leaders

Ain't Been Able to Get Back Home No More

Interview with Heuston Earms about Stewball

Stewball (II)

Interview with Heuston Earms about singing and his time in prison

I Been Havin' Trouble

Interview with Heuston Earms about Poor Lazarus, his childhood, and his hardships

Stewball (III)

Talk/ambience

Early In The Morning

Unidentified prisoner with harmonica

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners receiving visitors

Prisoner and visitor

Prisoner and visitor

Prisoner and visiting child

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Unidentified prisoner

Visiting women

Prisoner and visiting family in bunk house

Prisoners and visitors in dining hall

Prisoners and visitors in dining hall

Parchman work yard

Unidentifed prisoner with guitar

Unidentified prisoner

Unidentified prisoner

Prisoner and visiting child

Unidentified prisoner

Unidentified prisoner

Parchman bunkhouses

John Dudley with guitar

Prisoner singing and chopping wood

Unidentified prisoners

Prisoner with visiting family

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner singing and chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

James Carter with axe

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoner with visiting family on bunk

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners singing and chopping wood

Prisoners and visiting family in dining hall

Prisoners and visiting family in dining hall

Prisoner and visiting woman

Unidentified prisoners

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Prisoner on bunk

Prisoner and visiting woman on bunk

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner singing

Prisoner singing

Prison official and prisoner on porch

Prisoner in dining hall

Prisoners and visitors in dining hall

Prisoners and visitors in dining hall

Prisoner and visiting woman dancing in dining hall

Prisoner and visiting woman dancing in dining hall

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Prisoner and visiting woman in dining hall

Prisoner with visiting children in dining hall

Prisoners in bunkhouse

Ervin Webb at the Parchman Dairy

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners hoeing

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners chopping wood

Prisoner chopping wood

Prisoners recording work song

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