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Playlist for March 21, 2010 from 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Current New Orleans Time: Fri, 2:08am
Playlist Date & Time: 3/21/2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Program: Acoustic Blues with Your Cousin Dimitri
KLSP, the Incarceration Station, broadcasting out of Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka Angola Prison) is seeking help to enhance their music library. In support of their mission, today's show featured two hours of music about prison or actually recorded in jail. Between some songs, you also heard field recordings of chain gangs, mostly ones recorded by Alan Lomax and available on his series of "Prison Songs" CDs.
Playlist Tracks
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Marlene Dietrich
Such Trying Times
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Snooks Eaglin
Jack O Diamonds
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Bobby Lounge
Take me to Angola
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Slewfoot & The Angels
Oh Boy
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Leadbelly
Western Cowboy
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Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
I'm prison bound
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Frederick "Shep" Sheppard
Down by the riverside
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Teddy Grace
Betty and Dupree
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Steve Gardner and Washboard Chaz
Midnight Special
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Bessie Smith
Send me to the 'lectric chair
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Woody Guthrie
Hangknot, slipknot
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Jonathan, David and Elbert
Hangman
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Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers
Worried
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The Mannish Boys (David Bowie)
Bars of the county jail
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Furry Lewis
Judge Harsh Blues
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Mike West
Mississippi County Farm
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Leadbelly
Birmingham jail
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Nina Simone
Work Song
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Craig Klein's New Orleans Trombonisms
Redemption song
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Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie Dunn
Guitar Blues
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The Memphis Sheiks
He's in the jailhouse now
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Big Mama Thornton
Sheriff O.E. and me
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Dave Van Ronk
Hang me oh hang me
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Johnny Cash
I'm here to get my baby out of jail
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The Kingston Trio
The Tijuana Jail
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Blind Willie McTell
Delia
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Odea Matthews
The moon is rising
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Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers
Blow Mr Jackson
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Johnny Bragg and the Prisonaires
What about Frank Clement
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Warren Storm
Prisoner Song
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Merline Johnson
Crime don't pay
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Jimmie Rodgers
Ninety nine years blues
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Dinah Washington
Jailhouse blues
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Ramblin Jack Elliott
Tom Dooley
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Johnny Cash
25 minutes to go
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Hogman Maxey
Stagolee
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Merle Haggard
Jailhouse rock
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Further Information
Louisiana Music Collective
