Jail House Bound : John Lomax's First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933

Jail House Bound: John Lomax' s First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933 In 1933, John Lomax and his young son Alan traveled by car to a number of prisons scattered throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

In the nation’ s most restricted spaces, they recorded African- American convicts, who Lomax thought would be some of the last singers of traditional folk material due to the isolation of the institutions that held them.