Negro Prison Songs / "Black Woman-Murder's Home-Jumpin'Judy"

[catwoman19628]

Actually the men are sending messages because they can't really say what they really mean just as in the old slavery days. Songs were sung to send messages

[catwoman19628]

It has been said that the blues is usually written when one does not have the blues

[tracymac1111]

So raw. Could feel the emotion like it was in the room with me.

[Minkboat]

Does anyone know where i can get the "Negro prison songs" cd. That would be really great. Thanks alot.

[Dracanic]

I saw an old man playing a Harmonica with the same feeling as this song. I need to be able to play like him now.

[mrdclark2003]

Frederick Douglass said in his first book that slaves never sang when they were happy. These black men weren't slaves, but they worked like slaves. Maybe they deserved to be in prison, maybe they were innocent. I don't know, but regardless, the sound you hear is raw pain and emotion. Cries to God for mercy and hope for a better day. This is what you hear and more importantly feel in our Spirituals ( Slave songs) and Traditional Church music.

[rantazz23]

u know what annoys me? people claiming that it's pain that birthed this music...this music runs in their veins....africans sing...sing when they're happy sad working...this comes from thousands of years of tradition

the voices are pure and soulful because we put our heart into our voices simple as that.

[standardissuemale877]

you can hear the pain and suffering of the singers in this music

[Josh9772]

its hard listen and pay focus to those time.

[runawaybrain13]

This is the best ever. Too bad the best ever has to spurn from chains and hatred and oppression. Ain' it a bitch?

[mikaeel6161]

great music but why the naked women?

[monQsurlaKomod]

@mikaeel6161 i've answered a similar question, just look for it...

[postVaVou667]

@mikaeel6161

cause the real Gods and Goddess are naked.

hey Komod, great post man. great stuff great feeling and amazing poetry. greetings from Hellas, Athens man.

[tlrflyguy860]

If you people only knew you were the hebrew Israelites of the bible and not africans you would start to understand the prophecies of Gods word

[1bobbonnie]

....priceless....

[bellinghammond]

I've been looking for something just like this...

Something primal, wailing, crushed blues...thought it might be a Gandy Dancing song, or rock breaking...here it is.

We're gonna make a dance about the new Depression we're in...Ladies in business suits leaping around a pile of their possessions with railroad hammers, dancing with ghost of the 1st Great Depression....

[SassySophelia]

dont be so mean ladies........

[runningonhome]

this sounds like church of years past.....

[Tasia714]

The woman in these pictures are gorgeouse. Now I know where I get my good looks from.. hee hee. The songs are amazing and haunting. Thank you for posting them. I will share this with my childfren.

[monQsurlaKomod]

@Tasia714 many thanks for that commentary..PEACE

[Tasia714]

Sounds like my ancestors could always sing very well even in misery.

[ncaseu4got]

OMG...I'VE GOT THE CHILLS!

[ijoan]

This is where it all comes from: unrelenting work

[cletusbigtoe]

now this has soul......no one's singing for cash here

[momosteur]

@cletusbigtoe thank 'god'

[Sahbisun]

These voices are so haunting...it's like you feel them after all this time. Literally see them in those fields! I feel like taking a sip of gin..and I hate gin! love this sound!!!

[menschlichetragodie]

@GypsiiJane who says they had a soul? Have heard it said that the slave keepers lose more as a human than the slaves they keep.

[PeasantScab]

I wish Euro Americans would honour the African women who tended the babies, fed them, worried when they were sick, loved them, cuddled them, taught them to walk, fretted when they were unhappy...beautiful Affrican women full of warmth and strength,

[gqwestcoast]

i should end the life of at least one white man...

[imhere667]

@gqwestcoast your a fuktard bich its blacks like you who keep the word nigger alive

[mrdominikvsmad]

Dla mnie pierwszy wymiata!!!

[damphear2]

you can hear lead belly lol

[JuneJune1950]

Well I'm sure that's what the singers were thinking about, but I do not like it!

[mrman6511]

IM just wondering what the nudes were all about? why here?

[monQsurlaKomod]

@mrman6511 just ask yourself WHY NOT?....that's what i do everytime i think about it...

what should a man in jail think about??...a woman he loves, one he used to love, a woman who betrayed him, one who set him a trap....

[rbx22]

@mrman6511 we were born naked

[patobrun]

@mrman6511 i think its cuz we were all born nude, and when we die the worms gonna eat our nude bodies and if it affects your moral sense to have to ask what the fuck its really you who has got the problem. i caught my grandmother and her friends all sitting round this video masturbating their brains out, then we all went outside and sacrificed two goats to hecate. thats why, i reckon.

[patobrun]

Répondre à cette vidéo... its all aboiut your morals and how they warp humanity with their shames and guilts you try to put upon others. my grandmother and her circle of friends were all masturbating like cr5azy to this video, and then when all went outside and sacrificed two goats to hecate and coyote,

[MrKUZMA1]

СУПЕР!!!

[kstarBAM]

Mm mm mmm. I'm glad for this recording, we can't let this die. I wish this were on a CD or sumn, I would blast this all day.

[samuelforsythe]

@kstarBAM it is on cd. Recorded by Alan Lomax. Amazon has it

[jimmyred1978]

@kstarBAM it's on a cd that you can buy on amazon.com

[coy0te9]

@kstarBAM

Murderous Home

Rounder cd 1714

Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?

Rounder cd 1715

[momosteur]

@kstarBAM the alan lomax collection, now you can blast it al day

[kstarBAM]

@momosteur I ordered it a couple days ago ;)

[Dannyboy855]

this is strange but I totally hear this song in Ozzie Osbourns War Pigs song......

[GhostDye]

@Dannyboy855 hehhehehe almost yes! This music led to blues which spawned almost every music sort alive today :) ever seen Caddilac Records? I can recommend it :) one of my favs! :D

[brianbkstrong]

When I first heard this type of musice I was a mother less child, stronger than any man and determind, skilled,and well taught inmany arts: alost soul and very loney. This musice saved my soul and hepled restore my sprit. Know an older sprit it will help me hepl my children understand how to over come: to live sain in an insain world for the 1 true GOD. Thank You

[tenichisoyinka]

@brianbkstrong im not being racist... im just being factual... i find it funny that you say one true god when as a so the government forces the name upon us "african American" you were forced to learn about these things by the white slave masters who oppressed you so >_> technically your our god is suposed to be a bunch of gods... *shrugs* but im religion neutral so who am i kidding

[mrallcz]

Very energetic.

I wonder if prisoners sing that kind of songs today.

[Bastacat]

Makes me happy and sad at same time to lisen to this.

Happy because this type of music have not died out.

Sad,cuz it is about to.

People have forgot about real music,and when i hear this,i cry like 10year old girl who just busted up her Barby.

[stitchizstl]

yea man me too people aren't livin in reality anymore real is lost....

[1973BEE]

no no this is proof that the real isnt gone away it's just veiled lets us practice these songs for the day when we sing together again.... you see one person alone cannot bring forth this sort of energy...that is the magic of the voices in accord.. a day existed when we were more united and our struggles were not disguised.. dont you dare loss hope we need eachother more now then we ever have...you see we can all purchase our very own nooses nowadays

[Jellirollbatman]

If you enjoy this try Odetta's " another man done gone"

It will make you moan...

[DaveandDiana2004]

When I was a kid, we had a history of African American Music LP with "Black Woman" on it. I have been looking for it every since. Thank You for posting. I do not know why it made such an impression on me. Perhaps it was the fact that it was so soulful but also so haunting at the same time.

[bent540]

the last song is aweful

u just wanna make her still

[monQsurlaKomod]

well...do not listen to it!!!

[KuzinAvi]

@bent540 This aint the top 20 dickweed theyre songs of pain and unity

[bent540]

@KuzinAvi it still sucks so hard u wanna punch her in the mouth.

[KuzinAvi]

@bent540 somebody should punch you in the mouth. If you don't like it, fuck off and go listen to your lady gaga cds you little cunt rash.

[deesnutz757]

@KuzinAvi CUNT RASH ! LOL! Haaa! you made my night thats damn funny

[calle899]

@bent540 what u talkin bout man ?? .. it dont get no better than this. : D

[bugsycline]

this is the real blues...

[lotuswords]

amazing! when you meet my [what] woman just bow your head?

[Spiritree41]

Thanks for blessing us with this awesome history....

[watchulla]

I don't want no jet black women Lord

She is mean.

Wow this is what they are saying that is so bad and sad.

[qavornitza]

wonderful song!!!1

[brittanydorman]

Where did you get the images? Some of them are beautiful!

[monQsurlaKomod]

thank youuuuuu!!!

1 from the Bitches'Brew L.P. by Miles Davis, 1 from Eugène Delacroix and most of them from Google Pictures....

[abovefilms]

wow. this was recorded at the infamous parchment farm?

[monQsurlaKomod]

that's what it's written on the record's cover...

[Farmaz]

this a alan lomax recording?

[monQsurlaKomod]

yes, it is..