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Country Music’s Greatest Prison Albums
Prison and country music go together like peanut butter and jelly. No wonder a slew of country music albums have been actually recorded within prison walls—some for convicts, some by convicts, and some using convicts. And we’re not just talking about novelty releases either, but some iconic albums that have helped define country music over the years. Here are some of them.
Presented in chronological order.
Charles Lee Guy III – “The Prisoner’s Dream”
1963
That’s right, believe it or not Johnny Cash wasn’t the first to release an album recorded at a prison (though he definitely released more of them than anyone else). That distinction falls to Charles Lee Guy III who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 1957 at the age of 16 and was sentenced to 1 to 10 years in a California lock up. While in prison, Guy sent an unsolicited demo to Capitol Records, and producer Ken Nelson thought it would be a unique project to record an album in prison. The Prisoner’s Dream was recorded in a prison auditorium with Joe Maphis accompanying Charles Lee Guy III on acoustic guitar. Most of the songs were covers about prison, but Spade Cooley (in prison himself for killing his
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