Steve Earle - Ellis Unit One
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Uploaded by Mouldytone on Oct 25, 2007
Performed on Sessions At West 54th show. Recorded October 1998. Concert included songs with the Del McCoury band. Artist info.....
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Can't believe a "civilized" country as USA still has death penalty. Here in Europe it's abolished thank god.
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this is perfection!
try to play it like he does
fuckin perfection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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we are troy davis.
3 months ago 3
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Jesus must live on Ellis unit 1. I have so many old things holler ' Oh God, So many times when they were killing each other.Beleive it or not they can get the death penalty now for killing one another.Sure has cut down on in house murder.When I was employed at ellis Unit1 Hot Months 1 to 5 murders per day.Reserch it if you like.
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@electraluxx - what are collage boys? Is it like a club of young males who do scrapbooking and things of that nature?
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After reading some of these comments I see why there is so much muder,no penalty. Why not? By the way no one was ever shocked,or needled at Ellis unit 1 I worked there. Death Row is now in Livingston Texas. The execution chamber is At the Walls unit in Huntville Texas.By the way we just had a visitor there who put a chain around a black mans neck.Drug him behind a pickup,and pulled his head off Am I for the death penalty Hell yes.He won't pull anothers head off.
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I worked at Ellis Unit 1 Maybe Steve Did not know the candy man or Watts or the animal. I reckon it is allright what they did. B.S.
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Steve Earle is an activist against the death penalty. That is what this song is about. Period.
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like i said its about prison.
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Not sure what you mean by your comment, but Steve is explicit in interviews that this is about the conscience of a prison guard on Texas's death row (Ellis Unit One) and what the death penalty does to all of us. Steve is strongly against the death penalty, and has written essays about it, in addition to songs.
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On the short list of the best songwriters of a generation.
mikeclaw 3 years ago 21
I don't think this song is about mistakenly executing those who are actually innocent. I think it is about the impersonalization of executing a life and the internal conflict of the executioner. The execution has become cold clean and hidden from the public (collage boys can't see the flahing lights) by switching from the visceral electric chair to the 'civilized' lethal injection.
electraluxx 2 years ago 18