WORLD CHOICE
Song and salvation
Recordings made in a notorious penitentiary are surprisingly inspirational and uplifting
Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Parchman Prison Prayer
Glitterbeat GBCD 143 37:28 mins
The most celebrated set of field recordings ever made was Alan Lomax’s – work songs he collected in 1947 at Parchman Farm, the American South’s most notorious jail. With , the intrepid collector Ian Brennan has gone back to that same jail, which, 70 years on, is still
