Prisonaires biography examples
This Dissertation concerns autobiographies written by prisoners in the United Kingdom....
Their gut-wrenching story is one of courage in the face of impossible odds, and salvation amidst the harsh realities of racial injustice and prison brutality.
Just Walkin’ in the Rain: Reform, Redemption and the Story of the Prisonaires
Maybe the best promotional photo ever. The Prisonaires, lower tier at left, were inmates at Tennessee State Prison in 1953 when they cut a series of wonderful vocal group harmony records that were issued just slightly before Elvis Presley’s first releases on Sun Records.
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Kelley The LIFE Picture Collection
Written By: Ben Cosgrove
For much of the 20th century and well into the 21st, much of popular music rock and roll, R&B, hip hop has banked on the appeal of the rebel.
Arguably no single label in the history of music had as many true hell-raisers and genuine pioneers as Sam Phillips’ Sun Records. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and, of course, Elvis Presley were all early Sun stars, and their personae all contained that element of danger.
But another Sun act, signed to the label in the early 1950s, was comprised of five men who m