Parchman, Hollers and Alan Lomax

Before the blues had a name it had a work song. The 1933 Parchman recordings, the Lomax films, the prison yard where Lead Belly learned songs out of chains.

Playlist by @birth_of_the_blues

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Lightning Washington and prisoners: Good God Almighty (1933) — Lomax Film Collection
2. Joe Savage: Parchman Farm recollections and field hollers (1978) — Lomax Film Collection
3. Sid Hemphill: complete Library of Congress session (1942) — Lomax Film Collection
4. R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978) — Lomax Film Collection
5. Listen to Our Story: Alan Lomax, Folk Producer/Folk Promoter — Library of Congress
6. Rich Remsberg: Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music from the Great Depression — Library of Congress
7. Blues, Work Songs, and Hollers Crime and Punishment in Story and Song — The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies
8. The Land Where the Blues Began Documentary (1979) — Morton VonRueden
9. Leadbelly And Lomax, 1940's -- Film 429 — HuntleyFilmArchives
10. Music's Most Iconic Murderer (Leadbelly) — Deburke321
11. The Entire Story of Parchman Farm — Mississippi's Plantation Prison and the Blues Born in Its Fields — Forgotten Wards
12. Afro American Work Songs in a Texas Prison — World Field Recordings