My last post included a version of “Prettiest Train” by Karen Dalton in Boulder, Colorado in 1962. Now here’s the same song, from Alan Lomax’s recordings of prisoners at Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries in 1948 - 1949.


Prettiest Train

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