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Parchman Prision Prayer
Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
PRAYERS FROM DARKNESS
PARCHMAN PRISION PRAYER
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI SUNDAY MORNING
PRODUCED BY IAN BRENNAN
GLITTERBEAT RECORDS GBCD-164
RELEASE DATE : JANUARY 17, 2025
These songs were recorded by Ian Brennan in early 2024 at the Parchman Farm maximum security facility in the state of Mississippi.
All the tracks were recorded live without any overdubs over the course of just a few hours in Sunday morning service.THERE WERE NO GUARDS OR CHAPLAINSP PRESENT THIS TIME.
Performers:
The songs are performed entirely by ten inmates from the prison, men between 29 and 73 years old.
The prisoners are credited on the album only by their initial, surname and age.
Lead vocalist:
D. Justice
J. Hemphill
J. Robinson
L. Stevenson
j.sherman
CJ Deloch
M. Palmer
C. Jackson
Listen to samples - Parchman Prision Prayer - Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
Tracklist:
01 Parchman Prison Blues 02:27
02 Open the Floodgates of Heaven 01:43
03 Grace Will Lead Me On 03:48
04 MC Hammer 01:59
05 Po’ Child 01:11
06 Take Me to the King 02:28
07 Living Testimony 01:39
08 I Shall Not Want 03:54
09 I Won’t Complain 01:13
10 God is Keeping Me 01:55
11 Talking About My Jesus 00:58
12 Stand for You 00:58
13 Jesus Will Never Say No 05:03
M.PALMER
J.SHERMAN
ANTECEDENT
PARCHMAN PRISION PRAYER
SOME MISSISSIPPI SUNDAY MORNING
PRODUCED BY IAN BRENNAN
GLITTERBEAT RECORDS GBLP-143
RELEASE DATE : SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
All the tracks were recorded live without any overdubs over the course of just a few hours in Sunday morning service.
Performers:
The songs are performed entirely by ten inmates from the prison, men between 29 and 73 years old.
The prisoners are credited on the album only by their initial, surname and age.
LEAD VOCALISTS
L. Stevenson (age: 29)
M. Kyles (age: 52)
C.S. Deloch (age: 73)
N. Peterson (age: 63)
M. Palmer (age: 60)
A. Warren (age: 28)
J. Sherman (age: 63)
L. Brown (age: 36)
Robinson (age: 33)
D. Thomas (age: 30)
Parchman Prison Choir
Listen to samples - Parchman Prision Prayer - Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
2023
Built starting in 1901, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, known as Parchman Farm, is part of the history of blues music. In the 1920s and 1930s, the decades when blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, its inmates, mostly African American, left their musical imprint over the years, reflecting their living conditions inside. Bukka White recorded the song "Parchman Farm Blues" in 1940. John and Alan Lomax visited the facility for the first time in 1933, making their first recordings of several inmates. Ian Brennan returned to Parchman Farm in 2003 to record the sessions that were released on these two albums..
RECORDINGS MADE BY ALAN LOMAX
AT PARCHMAN PRISION
1947-1948
Rounder Records
1997
Rounder Records
1997
BUKKA WHITE
"Parchamn Farm Blues"(1940)
Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues
"Parchamn Farm Blues"
Lyrics
Judge give me life this mornin'
Down on Parchman farm
Judge give me life this mornin'
Down on Parchman farm
I wouldn't hate it so bad
But I left my wife in mourn
Oh, goodbye wife
All you have done gone
Oh, goodbye wife
All you have done gone
But I hope some day
You will hear my lonesome song
Oh, listen you men
I don't mean no harm
Oh, listen you men
I don't mean no harm
If you wanna do good
You better stay off old Parchman farm
We got to work in the mornin'
Just at dawn of day
We got to work in the mornin'
Just at dawn of day
Just at the settin' of the sun
That's when the work is done
I'm down on Parchman farm
I sho' wanna go back home
I'm down on Parchman farm
But I sho' wanna go back home
But I hope some day
I will overcome
Inmates at Parchman Farm Prison circa 1930
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