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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts) Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:19 PM Jan 2018

Songs About Incarceration

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Songs About Incarceration (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 OP

Christmas in Jail Eugene Jan 2018 #1

Cool! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #3

Riot in Cell Block #9 Eugene Jan 2018 #2

Awesome! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #14

That's the one I was thinking of when I clicked on the OP lunasun Jan 2018 #31

I Just Gotta Get a Message To You - Bee Gees Skittles Jan 2018 #4

Excellent! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #15

Chain Gang BarbaRosa Jan 2018 #5

Love Sam! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #16

Luke Kelly singing The Auld Triangle janterry Jan 2018 #6

Great song! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #19

Frederic Rzewski "Coming Together" cemaphonic Jan 2018 #7

Ice-T - The Tower Goonch Jan 2018 #8

System Of A Down - Prison Song Initech Jan 2018 #9

Locked Up - Akon Eugene Jan 2018 #10

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law(1966) Goonch Jan 2018 #11

Social Distortion: Prison Bound HeartachesNhangovers Jan 2018 #12

30 Days In The Hole - Humble Pie Runningdawg Jan 2018 #13

Old School flotsam Jan 2018 #17

Jailhouse Rock The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #18

George Thorogood: I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water HeartachesNhangovers Jan 2018 #20

If I Had the Wings of an Angel, Over These Prison Walls I Would Fly cyclonefence Jan 2018 #21

Waiting for my Child to Come Home Ptah Jan 2018 #22

Biko - Peter Gabriel hurl Jan 2018 #23

FWIW, I can not listen to Folsom Prison Blues without thinking of Puddles Pity Party's Shmoosh Up Brother Buzz Jan 2018 #24

CCR - Midnight Special Leith Jan 2018 #25

The Hurricane - Bob Dylan chuckstevens Jan 2018 #26

Midnight Special, CCR shenmue Jan 2018 #27

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2018 #28

"Over Yonder" "Billy Austin" GaryCnf Jan 2018 #29

Earle has some great ones. Hoyt Jan 2018 #33

Mama Tried, Jailhouse Rock, Lithos Jan 2018 #30

I Fought the Law (Clash version) jpak Jan 2018 #32

Kris Kristofferson - "Best Of All Possible Worlds" BluesRunTheGame Jan 2018 #34

Police Station Blues- Big Bill Broonzy MiltonBrown Jan 2018 #35

Tom Joad - Woody Guthrie red dog 1 Jan 2018 #36

Memphis Jug Band - "He's In The Jailhouse Now" BluesRunTheGame Jan 2018 #37

Blind Blake - "Doing A Stretch" BluesRunTheGame Jan 2018 #38

Was Not Was - Hello, Dad; Im in Jail! Codeine Jan 2018 #39

Seldom Scene - "Doing My Time" BluesRunTheGame Jan 2018 #40

I Shall Be Released Mendocino Jan 2018 #41

"Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" AzureCrest Jan 2018 #42

Leroy by Jack Scott MiltonBrown Jan 2018 #43

Eugene

(61,872 posts)

1. Christmas in Jail

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:21 PM

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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

3. Cool! 👍🏻

Reply to Eugene (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:24 PM

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Eugene

(61,872 posts)

2. Riot in Cell Block #9

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:24 PM

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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

14. Awesome! 👍🏻

Reply to Eugene (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 03:13 PM

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lunasun

(21,646 posts)

31. That's the one I was thinking of when I clicked on the OP

Reply to Eugene (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:56 PM

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Skittles

(153,150 posts)

4. I Just Gotta Get a Message To You - Bee Gees

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:27 PM

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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

15. Excellent! 👍🏻

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 03:15 PM

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BarbaRosa

(2,684 posts)

5. Chain Gang

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:28 PM

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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

16. Love Sam! 👍🏻

Reply to BarbaRosa (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 03:16 PM

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janterry

(4,429 posts)

6. Luke Kelly singing The Auld Triangle

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:33 PM

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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

19. Great song! 👍🏻

Reply to janterry (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:12 PM

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cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

7. Frederic Rzewski "Coming Together"

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:34 PM

Jan 2018

(The text is a letter from one of the prisoners at Attica written shortly before the infamous riot)

Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos:

Goonch

(3,607 posts)

8. Ice-T - The Tower

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:34 PM

Jan 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=64&v=xH-Ydt-S-pY

Initech

(100,063 posts)

9. System Of A Down - Prison Song

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:39 PM

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Eugene

(61,872 posts)

10. Locked Up - Akon

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:41 PM

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Goonch

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11. Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law(1966)

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:41 PM

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HeartachesNhangovers

(814 posts)

12. Social Distortion: Prison Bound

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:44 PM

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I saw them in Oakland CA in 2016, but they didn't do this song.

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)

13. 30 Days In The Hole - Humble Pie

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 02:59 PM

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flotsam

(3,268 posts)

17. Old School

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:00 PM

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)

18. Jailhouse Rock

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:08 PM

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HeartachesNhangovers

(814 posts)

20. George Thorogood: I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 04:22 PM

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cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

21. If I Had the Wings of an Angel, Over These Prison Walls I Would Fly

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:40 PM

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Ptah

(33,024 posts)

22. Waiting for my Child to Come Home

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:46 PM

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hurl

(938 posts)

23. Biko - Peter Gabriel

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:50 PM

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Stephen Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist killed in prison by security officers.

Brother Buzz

(36,416 posts)

24. FWIW, I can not listen to Folsom Prison Blues without thinking of Puddles Pity Party's Shmoosh Up

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:00 PM

Jan 2018

For Incarceration songs, Lead Belly's Midnight Special deserves a mention

But truth be told, I like CCR's cover much better

Leith

(7,809 posts)

25. CCR - Midnight Special

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:13 PM

Jan 2018

Edited to add: *aCk*! Ninjaed by Brother Buzz. Oh, well... too slow.

chuckstevens

(1,201 posts)

26. The Hurricane - Bob Dylan

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:17 PM

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shenmue

(38,506 posts)

27. Midnight Special, CCR

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:17 PM

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50 Shades Of Blue

(9,975 posts)

28. Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:22 PM

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GaryCnf

(1,399 posts)

29. "Over Yonder" "Billy Austin"

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:27 PM

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Steve Earle.

"Locked up in Jail"

John Lee Hooker.

"Locked Away"

R.City

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

33. Earle has some great ones.

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 09:15 PM

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Lithos

(26,403 posts)

30. Mama Tried, Jailhouse Rock,

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:30 PM

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Back on the Chain Gang
Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy)
Travis Count (Gary Clark)
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

jpak

(41,757 posts)

32. I Fought the Law (Clash version)

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Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:58 PM

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BluesRunTheGame

(1,614 posts)

34. Kris Kristofferson - "Best Of All Possible Worlds"

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:55 PM

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MiltonBrown

(322 posts)

35. Police Station Blues- Big Bill Broonzy

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:40 PM

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red dog 1

(27,792 posts)

36. Tom Joad - Woody Guthrie

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 08:35 PM

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"Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen.
There he got his parole.
After four long years on a man killing charge.
Tom Joad came-a-walkin' down the road, poor boy
Tom Joad came-a-walkin' down the road."

BluesRunTheGame

(1,614 posts)

37. Memphis Jug Band - "He's In The Jailhouse Now"

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 08:54 PM

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BluesRunTheGame

(1,614 posts)

38. Blind Blake - "Doing A Stretch"

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:08 PM

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Codeine

(25,586 posts)

39. Was Not Was - Hello, Dad; Im in Jail!

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:25 PM

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BluesRunTheGame

(1,614 posts)

40. Seldom Scene - "Doing My Time"

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:43 PM

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Mendocino

(7,486 posts)

41. I Shall Be Released

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Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:53 PM

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Dylan and The Band.

AzureCrest

(65 posts)

42. "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights"

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Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:04 PM

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MiltonBrown

(322 posts)

43. Leroy by Jack Scott

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Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:19 PM

Jan 2018

Leroy's back in jail again

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