v/a- HANGMANS BLUES - Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) LP zine some 26 years later

some 26 years later

the only band even close to the scree they unleash is 'Sicko Inside Me' era Necessary Evils mixed with a bit of the first Horrors LP and dare I even say some of the nastier Hunches efforts

Lee Ranaldo ’s back cover photo-collage and Catherine Ceresole ’s crumpled-xeroxed images that adorned the inside are dark

But it's also partly because the band sounds like it views everything from Cream and Black Sabbath to afro-cuban and Middle Eastern  music as essentially the same

v/a- HANGMANS BLUES - Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) LP zine some 26 years laterFollowing the brilliant Hillbillies In Hell series, Iron Mountain Analogue Research has announced a new compilation of prison ballads recorded between 1956 and 1972. Titled The Hangmans Blues, the sixteen tracks in this collection were originally issued on 45s, mostly on obscure or private press labels, and are re released here for the first time. Many of these tracks can be traced to the controversial case of Caryl Chessman, who, in 1960, became the