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Crime / Music Brian Cook on the First of Four Charles Manson Prison Records
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:03 AM
At first, it sounds a little like Leadbelly or Son House. The recording is grainy, warbled, soaked in tape hiss. There are a few flubbed notes here and there. This is obviously one-take material, but played by someone with a fair handle on the guitar. The vocals seem off-the-cuff, driven by stream of consciousness, and maybe slightly drunken. With no background information on the album, one’s first guess was that this was a lost recording of some lesser-known Delta blues musician. But then comes “Gas Chamber”, which bares some mildly apocalyptic warning of living in a dying atmosphere, and then veers off into a seemingly impromptu spoken word breakdown loosely pertaining to environmentalism. This was either some very progressive tent revival stuff, or this is much more modern than the recording quality suggests.
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