Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Parchman Prison Prayer (Glitterbeat, CD, DL, LP) glitterbeat.com
The name and address – ‘Parchman Farm, Sunflower County’ – sounds pleasant. The reality is very different. Parchman, or to give it its official name, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, is notorious, even within the larger US penal system. Since its foundation in the early 20th.) The album’s yearning hymns also remind us of the humanity behind the crime, of the need for redemption of some kind.
