We just uploaded more than a hundred songs from the golden age of prison music in Texas. Our Staff Writer Maurice Chammah digitized an archive of soul, country, and rock made by men serving time in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, all of it on vinyl at the Texas Prison Museum. Soon, we’re launching a series called Redemption Songs — a companion to our newsletter about the music of mass incarceration. Follow for more. 🎶 ✍️🎤: Maurice Chammah / The Marshall Project 📷: Courtesy of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Josef Just, Johnnycash1950-2003 and Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; and Carol M. Highsmith, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons 🎶: “Here Comes Warden Walker” by Texas prisoner J.D. Thomas on “Behind the Wall,” 1974 🎥: Produced by Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project #music #musichistory #texas #rodeo #vinyl
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