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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2014 12:34:59 GMT -5
This well known photo of Parchman during the 30s is well known, but has anyone identified the prisoners?  |
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Post by dadfad on Apr 3, 2014 14:43:22 GMT -5
I've driven by Parchman several times over the years on various trips through Mississippi or on my way to New Orleans.)
I've looked around through various archive with no luck, Jim. (I thought I could at least find the names of the warden and music-director! LOL!)
The prison archives only go back twenty years or so and the "usual suspects" (like Son House or Bukka White) didn't serve there in the proper time period. (Bukka did serve in the very late '30s, but I'm fairly sure he wasn't one of them. I saw Bukka (and BB King) perform in New Orleans in the early '70s and he was truly a bear of a man, much bigger and (especially) taller than the guitarists in the photo who seem to be of pretty "normal" height.)
The closest thing I found was regarding the warden on an ancestry-search sight where someone said their uncle "Bun" Gilbert was a warden at Parchman in the '30s but found nothing on him either beyond links to other ancestry sites.
I don't think we'll ever know!
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2014 15:53:35 GMT -5
Thanks John. I've been down to Parchman a few times myself (not as an imate luckily)... I'm trying to get a list of the prisoners from the Dept. of Corrections in Jackson MS. We'll see where it leads.
Can anyone identify the drumhead logo? Looks like an Indian Maiden with the sun's rays and the initials at the bottom "S C"
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Post by dadfad on Apr 3, 2014 16:58:21 GMT -5
Can anyone identify the drumhead logo? Looks like an Indian Maiden with the sun's rays and the initials at the bottom "S C" I tried expanding it, editing it and photoshopping it every way imaginable with the same results, Jim. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2014 19:46:31 GMT -5
I think it was figured out at "Real Blues Forum" on facebook. Someone came up with the fact that Parchman is in "Sunflower County" with a county seat of Indianola...Hence "Indian" Ola. SC - Sunflower County. Sounds plausible, as it's probable the local school in Indianola donated or loaned the drum to Parchman band.
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