Poor Boy - Lomax Prison Recording
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Uploaded by PreWarMusic on Feb 14, 2008
Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1939, picture taken by Jack Delano.
Sorry if any confusion was caused over this though the song and the picture are unrelated, I just like the picture so thought it was some what fitting for a song recorded in prison :)
This song is by Bukka White, though i wasn't 100% sure of this when I first uploaded this as I lifted it from a large archive of LOC recordings and it didn't have an artist listed.
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@221Sanka yes, my previous comment - I meant John (the father) not Alan (the son) who was actually ashamed of his father; was it bokker who pulled a knife on the lomax pappa while driving from one gig to another? If I can be pothered, I can retrieve chapter and verse - there is a biog by a black lady professor that lays it all out; lomax senior did excellent work in recording music that would otherwise have been lost, but...... well, you get it or you don't
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1930's: Alan Lomax once asked a black blues singer in a Southern jail to record for him and was refused - didn't want to sing for whitey - so Lomax complained to the prison governor, who threatened to flog the prisoner raw unless he agreed; on the one hand, Lomax saved a lot of music that would have been lost; one the other hand, he was a total prick.
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This track was actually recorded by Alan Lomax's father, John Lomax, while Booker was serving time in prison for an assault conviction.
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This is Mr Bukka singing the blues from his cell, a piece of history, pure class...
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Fans of good raw blues might like "Rosetta West - Suzie."
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ever watch the movie Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman? Not many blacks on that chain gang & he was sent there for cutting off parking meters. What we have here is failure to communicate
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ever watch the movie Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman ? not many blacks on that chain gang. Shaking the bush boss.
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@lowratehitman Yeh, My father said he saw people working in chain gangs, he saw white men, black men, etc. said he really couldn't tell the difference though, as far as he could see, he saw suffering .
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Is there a particular place I could get the lyrics for this?
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Of course it's Bukka White. I thought everyone knew that by now.
paulvernon100 1 year ago 5
@Istaysmoking - Sorry, you are wrong.
That IS Bukka White singing and playing.
snakehips81 1 year ago 3