SongEra: Jim Crow

Cleaning This Highway

Name: Cleaning This Highway
Description: Traditional African-American prison road / chain-gang worksong, built from floating verses and documented at a single 1959 Angola field session.

c. 1959(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: prison work song

Traditional African-American prison road / chain-gang worksong, built from floating verses and documented at a single 1959 Angola field session.

Sources & citations

1.folkways-media.si.eduwebsite
2.discogs.comwebsite