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2023 compilation. Song titles such as 'The Hanging Tree,' 'One Dead Man Ago,' 'Midnight Train,' 'Walking the Last Mile,' 'Lilly's Lament (Cell 29)' and 'Shot Four Times And Dying' describe what this CD album is all about. Incarceration is a frequent theme in American roots music. There is plenty of songs about hideous crimes, boastful escapes, self-pity, and remorseful pleading for a second chance in exchange for XYZ. Especially in old-time and early country music, we find good examples of the jail theme. One might think the motif may have been derived from pieces from the Anglo-Celtic tradition. Indeed, songs about murder, theft, and other sinful deeds are frequent in the British songbook, yet, jail, as a metaphor or as a place of self-reflection and transformation, is an American specialty: In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Evangelically Oppressed, incarceration serves as a mirror of the self. Jail is an implicitness, like death, heaven and hell. With Destination Jail, Bear Family Records offers a hodgepodge of hillbilly and rock & roll obscurities and classics dealing with life behind bars. The songs feature all the various elements of the US detention system: prison - county farm, prison, and penitentiary.
2023 compilation. Song titles such as 'The Hanging Tree,' 'One Dead Man Ago,' 'Midnight Train,' 'Walking the Last Mile,' 'Lilly's Lament (Cell 29)' and 'Shot Four Times And Dying' describe what this CD album is all about. Incarceration is a frequent theme in American roots music. There is plenty of songs about hideous crimes, boastful escapes, self-pity, and remorseful pleading for a second chance in exchange for XYZ. Especially in old-time and early country music, we find good examples of the jail theme. One might think the motif may have been derived from pieces from the Anglo-Celtic tradition. Indeed, songs about murder, theft, and other sinful deeds are frequent in the British songbook, yet, jail, as a metaphor or as a place of self-reflection and transformation, is an American specialty: In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Evangelically Oppressed, incarceration serves as a mirror of the self. Jail is an implicitness, like death, heaven and hell. With Destination Jail, Bear Family Records offers a hodgepodge of hillbilly and rock & roll obscurities and classics dealing with life behind bars. The songs feature all the various elements of the US detention system: prison - county farm, prison, and penitentiary.
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Format: CD
Label: BEAR FAMILY
Rel. Date: 03/03/2023
UPC: 4000127176899

Destination Jail: 31 Prison Songs From / Various
Artist: Destination Jail: 31 Prison Songs From / Various
Format: CD
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1. Folsom Prison Blues - Billy Tidwell ; the Chivells
2. In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce
3. Alabama Jailhouse - Rod Morris
4. Shot Four Times and Dyin' - Bill Carter
5. The Ballad of Caryl Chessman - Ronnie Hawkins
6. Jailer, Jailer - Jim Carter
7. Death Row - the Pierce Brothers
8. Walla Walla State Prison - Gary Williams
9. Midnight Train - Johnny Burnette Trio
10. Liliy's Lament (Cell 29) - Helen Grayco
11. Crash Out - Jaycee Hill
12. Prisoner's Song (Alt. Take 2) - Sonny Burgess
13. Huntsville Prison Blues - Troy Crane ; the Three Texans
14. Fort Worth Jail - Skeets McDonald
15. Chain Gang Charlie - Curley Money
16. One Dead Man Ago - Jimmie Skinner
17. Run - Stonewall Jackson
18. The Guard on the North Wall - Bobby Sykes
19. Jailer Bring Me Water - Bobby Darin
20. Folsom Prison Blues - Reb Allen
21. Lewisburg Prison - Johnny Starr
22. Riot in Cell Block No. 9 - Ron ; Joe ; the Crew
23. Chain Gang - Jimmy Young
24. Hey Sherriff - Johnny Rebb ; His Rebels
25. Jailer Man - Bill Carter
26. Death Row - Jim Minor
27. Prisoner's Song - Bill Monroe
28. Doin' My Time - Bill Flagg
29. The Hanging Tree - Marty Robbins
30. My Hanging Day - George Champion
31. Walking the Last Mile - Bennie Hess

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2023 compilation. Song titles such as 'The Hanging Tree,' 'One Dead Man Ago,' 'Midnight Train,' 'Walking the Last Mile,' 'Lilly's Lament (Cell 29)' and 'Shot Four Times And Dying' describe what this CD album is all about. Incarceration is a frequent theme in American roots music. There is plenty of songs about hideous crimes, boastful escapes, self-pity, and remorseful pleading for a second chance in exchange for XYZ. Especially in old-time and early country music, we find good examples of the jail theme. One might think the motif may have been derived from pieces from the Anglo-Celtic tradition. Indeed, songs about murder, theft, and other sinful deeds are frequent in the British songbook, yet, jail, as a metaphor or as a place of self-reflection and transformation, is an American specialty: In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Evangelically Oppressed, incarceration serves as a mirror of the self. Jail is an implicitness, like death, heaven and hell. With Destination Jail, Bear Family Records offers a hodgepodge of hillbilly and rock & roll obscurities and classics dealing with life behind bars. The songs feature all the various elements of the US detention system: prison - county farm, prison, and penitentiary.
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