Compilation

Jailhouse Blues & Murder Ballads

Various Artists•2015•180 songs, 571:08

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1

7:59

2

In the Jailhouse Now

2:05

3

The Beale Street Sheiks

2:57

4

Government Money

Sleepy John Estes

3:13

5

Hard Luck Child

3:02

6

Jailhouse Blues

3:14

7

2:53

8

That's No Way to Get Along

2:54

9

Prison Cell Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson

2:49

10

Sing Sing Prison Blues

3:04

11

Jail House Blues

3:33

12

Mississippi John Hurt

2:57

13

Cell Bound Blues

3:18

14

Nobody's Dirty Business

Mississippi John Hurt

2:54

15

In the Jailhouse Now, No. 2

3:25

16

The Prisoned Cowboy

3:02

17

Family Stirving

3:14

18

Steel Laying Holler

Rochelle Harris

2:24

19

Prison Song (Live)

2:06

20

I Will Turn Your Money Green (Take 2)

3:12

21

Christmas in Jail, Ain't That a Pain

3:12

22

We Need Another Witness

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

3:39

23

Track Lining Song

John 'Black Sampson' Gibson

1:25

24

Tijuana Jail (Live)

The Kingston Trio

2:21

25

Steal Away to Jesus

4:18

26

3:04

27

I Will Turn Your Money Green (Take 1)

3:07

28

I Wonder to Myself

3:06

29

3:10

30

Wasn't That Doggin' Me

The Beale Street Sheiks

3:09

31

Song of the Bandit

2:30

32

Penitentiary Bound Blues

Sylvester Weaver

3:04

33

Levee Camp Holler

John 'Black Sampson' Gibson

1:48

34

Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)

2:35

35

'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do

3:10

36

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

4:39

37

Strike at Camp I

Roosevelt Charles

9:30

38

Stack O' Dollars

Sleepy John Estes

3:04

39

Set Down, Servant

Adie Corbin and Ed Frierson

2:16

40

Police on My Back

2:43

41

I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)

1:55

42

Folsom Prison Blues

5:05

43

Chain Gang Blues

3:04

44

Robert Guitar Welch

4:25

45

Sammie, Where Have You Been so Long

3:05

46

I Need More Power

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

3:36

47

Prison Blues (Parchman Farm Field Recording)

2:22

48

2:55

49

Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosely

1:55

50

The County Farm Blues

2:40

51

Write a Letter to My Mother

3:03

52

The Prisoners of Shelby County Workhouse

2:06

53

I Know I Got Religion

Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosely

2:29

54

Have You Ever Heard the Church Bells Ton

Otis Webster & Roosevelt Charles

2:38

55

County Jail Special

Champion Jack Dupree

3:17

56

The Prisoner's Dream

3:05

57

The Prisoners of Shelby County Workhouse

2:47

58

I'd Rather Go to Jail (Re-Recorded Version)

3:24

59

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues

2:53

60

You Got to Hurry

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

2:04

61

2:32

62

2:45

63

3:26

64

I Heard That Lonesome Whistle

2:30

65

Fast Life Woman

4:07

66

2:54

67

Be with Me Jesus

2:30

68

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

5:00

69

1:25

70

See How They Done My Lord

2:57

71

Prisoners of Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman Farm

2:55

72

The Prisoner's Song

2:44

73

3:01

74

0:59

75

He's in the Jailhouse Now

3:00

76

When I Lay My Burden Down

Robert Pete Williams

5:04

77

3:31

78

He Never Said a Mumbling Word

Prisoners of Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman Farm

2:05

79

Hang It on the Wall

2:47

80

Fort Worth Jail

2:56

81

Doin' a Stretch

2:38

82

Oklahoma Tornadoes

2:50

83

When Your Way Gets Dark

3:09

84

Jail House Rock

2:27

85

The Old Ship of Zion

Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne

7:22

86

Ninety-Nine Year Blues

3:04

87

Prisoners of Mississippi State Penitentiary Oakley

2:39

88

I'm Still in Love with You

Thelma Mae Joseph

1:44

89

Goin' Home to My Old Used to Be

4:27

90

Birmingham Jail

2:53

91

The Prisoners of Shelby County Workhouse

4:10

92

Poor Man's Prison

2:36

93

The Moon Is Rising

1:59

94

Mean Black Moan

3:19

95

I'm Goin' Back with Him When He Comes

Robert Pete Williams

3:01

96

Big House Bound

Blind Boy Fuller

2:41

97

4:12

98

2:47

99

Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade

Tom Dutson & R.P. Williams

3:46

100

Runnin' Wild Blues

2:58

101

Midnight Special

2:04

102

I'm Stranded on the Banks of Ole Jordan

1:55

103

Good God Almighty

Lightning Washington and group

3:05

104

Ball and Chain for Me

0:44

105

Tell Me Pretty Baby

John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig

4:53

106

Prisoner's Song

4:16

107

Lightning Washington and group

3:04

108

5:12

109

Buddy Boy Hawkins

2:30

110

I'm Here to Get My Baby out of Jail

The Everly Brothers

3:38

111

Down the Dirt Road Blues

3:00

112

Brother Mosely Crossed the Water

Hogman Maxey & Andy Mosely

1:29

113

4:16

114

Standing at the Greyhound Bus Station

2:49

115

Blind Willie McTell

2:53

116

Lightning Washington and group

4:29

117

Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade 2

Robert Pete Williams & Tom Dutson

3:42

118

The County Farm Blues 2

3:31

119

Stole Rider Blues

Blind Willie McTell

3:08

120

So Much Is Happenin' in the News

Robert Pete Williams

4:17

121

Hard Headed Woman

3:21

122

James 'Iron Head' Baker

4:09

123

3:23

124

A Capella Group

5:50

125

Alabama Prison Blues

2:32

126

Mighty Bright Light

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

2:56

127

Tupelo County Jail

2:04

128

New Prison Blues

3:16

129

Let My People Go

Roosevelt Charles

3:42

130

I'm Lonesome Blues

Robert Pete Williams

4:01

131

Dark Was the Night / Cold Was the Ground

Blind Willie Johnson

3:22

132

Boll Weevil Blues

4:08

133

James 'Iron Head' Baker, R.D. Allen & Will Crosby

1:28

134

Go Down, Old Hannah

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

5:26

135

3:35

136

Parchman Farm Blues

2:40

137

James 'Iron Head' Baker

1:44

138

I'm Gonna Leave You Mama

2:50

139

I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole

Blind Willie Johnson

3:05

140

2:45

141

Robert Pete Williams

4:29

142

They'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

Jesse Butcher & Guitar Welch

2:56

143

Some Got Six Months

Robert Pete Williams

3:46

144

3:18

145

2:37

146

Blind Lemon Jefferson

2:47

147

3:42

148

Little School Song

Robert Pete Williams & Tom Dutson

1:29

149

Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos

Ernest "Mexico" Williams & James "Iron Head" Baker and his Quartet

2:52

150

Riot in Cell Block, No. 9

3:01

151

Right of Way Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson

2:54

152

3:27

153

2:51

154

Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues

Blind Lemon Jefferson

2:47

155

Black Night Is Fallin'

4:32

156

What Shall I Do

Robert "Guitar" Welch

2:55

157

Penitentiary Blues

2:21

158

The Midnight Special

Ernest "Mexico" Williams

1:45

159

Chopping in the New Ground

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

1:40

160

Electric Chair Blues

5:12

161

Crime Doesn't Pay

Merline Johnson

2:46

162

Cops and Robbers

Bad Boy Boogaloo

2:56

163

Broke and Hungry

Blind Lemon Jefferson

3:02

164

That's All Right, Honey

Mose 'Clear Rock' Platt

4:27

165

Prison Bound Blues

2:41

166

My Baby's Got to Go

John Henry Jackson & A.C. Craig

3:23

167

2:05

168

Here Rattler Here

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

5:22

169

County Jail Blues

Funny Paper Smith

2:53

170

Church on Fire with the Word of God

Robert Pete Williams

3:03

171

Blind Lemon Jefferson

2:52

172

Mose 'Clear Rock' Platt

1:03

173

Prisoner's Talking Blues

Robert Pete Williams

5:12

174

A. Mosely & Robert Pete Williams

2:40

175

Duckin' and Dodgin'

3:35

176

Dekalb Chain Gang

3:05

177

Come on Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around

2:46

178

Let Your Hammer Ring

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

5:49

179

He's in the Jailhouse Now 2

3:43

180

John Lomax, Jr.

2:29

July 19, 2015

Jailhouse Blues & Murder Ballads by Various Artists · SongPad