Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-1959

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Release Date: 2014-11-11

Label: Dust-to-Digital

First released 1957 (partially) as Negro Prison Songs From The Mississippi State Penitentiary, Tradition Records TLP-1020.
Previously unreleased tracks:
CD1: 1-2, 1-17, 1-23
CD2: 2-3, 2-4, 2-8, 2-9, 2-14, 2-15, 2-18 and 2-21

Recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Lambert, MS. (Camp 7), November/December 1947 and Parchman, MS. (Camps 7, 11 and dairy), October 1959.

124-page hardcover book with 2 CDs, includes slipcase and foil stamping (dimensions: 6.25 inches x 9.5 inches)
44 audio recordings, 12 previously unreleased, all newly remastered;
77 photographs, many published here for the first time;
Essays by Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax Wood, and Bruce Jackson.
Produced by Steven Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital, and Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive.

All photos by Alan Lomax, except for the photographs on pages 2, 8, 12, and the front cover taken in the 1930s by Martha Alice Stewart, an employee at Parchman Farm. They are from the "The Time on Parchman Farm" collection and are used with family's permission.

Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-1959 DTD-37 ℗ © 2014 Dust-to-Digital