Re: "Lost Soul Behind Bars" - NMC
You might want to check out "Music From The Big House" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742081/), a documentary in which the blues singer, Rita Chiarelli, stumbled across Louisiana's Angola Prison, where she ended up as a performer and musical volunteer working with prisoners. Angola was one of the prisons visited by Alan Lomax on his song-collecting field trips.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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