Robert Pete Williams w/ Hogman Maxey/ Guitar Wel - Angola Prisoner's Blues

Angola Prisoner's Blues
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Album Details: Angola Prisoner's Blues

Release Date:03/01/1961
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Track List: Angola Prisoner's Blues

  1. Levee Camp Blues
  2. Stagolee
  3. Electric Chair Blues
  4. Prisoner's Talking Blues
  5. Motherless Children Have a Hard ...
  1. Black Night Blues
  2. Some Get Six Months
  3. Backwater Blues
  4. I'm Lonesome Blues

Pro Reviews: Angola Prisoner's Blues

  • All Music Guide

    Not enough great things to say about this one, one of the finest field recordings ever done anywhere. If Robert Pete's "Prisoner's Talking Blues" doesn't move you, check your heart into your refrigerator's freezer section.

    - Cub Koda, All Music Guide

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Biography

Robert Pete Williams

Discovered in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Robert Pete Williams became one of the great blues discoveries during the folk boom of the early '60s. His disregard for conventional patterns, tunings, and structures kept him from a wider audience, but his music remains one of the great, intense treats of the blues. Williams was born in Zachary, Louisiana, the son of sha... Read more