RANDOM PILE: TEXAS PRISON MUSIC

There’s albums recorded in prisons – think Johnny Cash’s famous At Folsom Prison or Eddie Palmieri’s Live at Sing Sing albums – but then there are prison albums recorded by prisoners. These seem to coincide with the heyday of custom album-making (since most of them were recorded remotely, at prison) as well as, perhaps, pre-”War on Crime” era prison policies were music was seen as one pathway to rehabilitation. That was certainly the idea behind this prison LP issued in 1965 by...

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