Better Than Jail, a new benefit album that contains a 12-track lineup of iconic prison song covers, was released today, Friday, Oct. 4. Bringing together a coveted assemblage of Americana, blues, and ...

In 1964, researcher Bruce Jackson traveled to prisons in Texas to record the songs that Black work crews had inherited from their enslaved ancestors. Jackson used a reel-to-reel tape recorder to ...

The 1970s were a golden age for music made in American prisons. During that decade, the composer, singer and guitarist Ike White released an album from his California prison that earned him ...

Whether as an inmate or his brief string of prison concerts, country legend Johnny Cash was very familiar with the U.S. penal system throughout his decades-long career. The third track Cash ever ...

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Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That's the prevailing premise of director Contessa Gayles' award-winning Songs From The Hole, a 90-minute documentary on Netflix that ...