tracks

Berta
Take This Hammer
Stewball
Five Long Years For One Man
Alberta Let Your Bangs Grow Long
I Had Five Long Years
Early In The Mornin'
All Teamed Up In Angola's Mule Lot
I Got A Hurtin' In My Right Side
Let Your Hammer Ring
Cleaning This Highway
John Henry
Something Within Me
Jesus Cares
Working On The Levee - Part 1 (Good Morning Captain)
Working On The Levee - Part 2
Take This Hammer
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long
My Mule "Grey" (A Plowing Song)

notes

Tracks 1-14 and 17 recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, LA. Tracks 15, 16, 18, and 19 recorded elsewhere.

Tracks 1-14 originally issued on LP in 1959 as Folklyric LP A-5, and reissued as Arhoolie LP 2012. Tracks 15-19 are bonus tracks not included on the original LP.

Catalog number CD 448 on spine and rear cover; catalog number 448 on front cover; catalog number CD-448 on disc face.

© & ℗ 1959 & 1997 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc.

credits

Design [Cover] – Wayne Pope
Liner Notes [Liner Notes Edited By], Executive-Producer – Chris Strachwitz
Recorded By, Liner Notes, Producer, Edited By, Photography By [Cover] – Dr. Harry Oster,

companies

Copyright (c) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Glass Mastered At – Nimbus
Recorded At – Louisiana State Penitentiary At Angola

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