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...plays guitar like nobody's business. Folks-Lyric, has released a series of discs made by blues singers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. (The Penitentiary has since released some of the singers.) The best of these is titled "Angola Prisoners' Blues," and features Robert Pete Williams, Hogman Maxey, and Guitar Welch...
...cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...
...Hogman Devore expects to place about 1,000 head this year, more next. Believing the farmer can use 10¢ corn most profitably by feeding it to hogs, he hopes other farm-aid organizations, including the U. S. Government, will follow his lead...
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