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Word: toolroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Hunter | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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