VA - Prison Songs: Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48,vol. 1 & 2 (1997)

"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen."

Tracklist:

Vol. 1: Murderous Home
1. Jimpson & Group - The Murderer's Home
2. Jimpson & Axe Gang - No More, My Lord
3. B.B. & Group - Old Alabama
4. B.B. & Group - Black Woman
5. Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & Group - Jumpin' Judy
6. C.B. - Whoa Buck
7. "22" - Prettiest Train
8. "22" & Group - Old Dollar Mamie
9. "22" & Group - It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad
10. C.B. & Axe Gang - Rosie
11. Bama - Levee Camp Hollar
12. Bama - What Makes a Work Song Leader (Interview With Bama)
13. "22" With Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair - Early in the Mornin'
14. Bama - How I Got in the Penitentiary (Interview With Bama)
15. Tangle Eye - Tangle Eye Blues
16. Bama - Stackerlee
17. Alex - Prison Blues

Vol. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?
1. Don'cha Hear Poor Mother Calling
3. John Henry intro
3. John Henry
4. Strongest Man I Ever Saw
5. Well, I Wonder
6. Lies
7. I'm Goin' Home
8. More Lies
9. O' Berta
10. Disability Boogie Woogie
11. O Rose
12. Hollers
13. Stewball
14. Fox Chase
15. Katy Left Memphis
16. About Prison Singers
17. Rosie
18. High Rollin' Sergeant
19. Garbage Man
20. When I Went to Leland
21. Prodigal Son
22. I'm Goin' to Memphis