Those Prison Blues

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Those Prison Blues
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Studio album by
Robert Pete Williams
Released1959
Recorded1959
Venue Louisiana State Penitentiary
Genre Blues, field recording
Label Folk-Lyric
FL-109
Robert Pete Williams chronology
Angola Prisoners' Blues
(1959)		Those Prison Blues
(1959)		 Free Again
(1961)
Arhoolie Reissue Cover
Those Prison Blues (Arhoolie).jpg

Those Prison Blues is an album by blues musician Robert Pete Williams recorded by Harry Oster in Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1959 and 1960 and originally released on the Folk-Lyric label before being reissued with an altered track listing on Arhoolie in 1971. [1] [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Eugene Chadbourne's review on AllMusic stated: "Although some of these tracks are brilliant, there are more consistent collections available by this artist, as well as ones that are more generous with playing time". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Robert Pete Williams except where noted

Original Folk-Lyric Release

  1. "I'll Be Glad When I'm from Behind Iron Walls" – 5:23
  2. "Louise" – 4:24
  3. "Blue in Me" – 4:02
  4. "Come Here, Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong with You" – 1:57
  5. "I Got the Blues So Bad" – 3:35
  6. "Boogy Woman" – 3:06
  7. "Pardon Renied (Denied) Again" – 4:44
  8. "Army Blues" – 3:13
  9. "Blues in the Dark" –
  10. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (Traditional)
  11. "Angola Special" – 4:12

Arhoolie Reissue

  1. "Pardon Denied Again" – 4:44
  2. "This Wild Old Life" <previously unreleased – 4:20
  3. "Texas Blues" <previously unreleased – 5:07
  4. "Up And Down Blues" <previously unreleased – 6:00
  5. "I'm Blue as a Man Can Be" [aka "I'll Be Glad When I'm From Behind Iron Walls"] – 5:23
  6. "Louise" – 4:24
  7. "Blue in Me" – 4:02
  8. "I Got the Blues So Bad" – 3:35
  9. "Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong with You" – 1:57

Personnel

Performance

Production

References

  1. ↑ Robert Pete Williams Discography. Retrieved December 7, 2018
  2. ↑ Dr. Harry Oster Recordings. Retrieved December 7, 2018
  3. 1 2 Chadbourne, Eugene. Robert Pete Williams: Those Prison Blues – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ R.L.M. (July 13, 1963). "Robert Pete Williams: Those Prison Blues" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
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