Ernest Williams & James (Iron Head) Baker - Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos video free download

Jim Hauser

This is a beautiful and powerful version of one of my favorite songs. I just want to add some background information about it.The Brazos River is the longest river in Texas. Spanish explorers called it the "Rio do los Brazos de Dios" which means "river of the arms of God." There are various legends explaining how the river came by its name, including ones about explorers, miners, or sailors whose lives were saved by finding the river, or being guided to it by Native Americans, just before they died of thirst. A number of Texas prison farms were built along the Brazos, and the river is mentioned in various African American prison songs, including "Ain't No More Cane On This Brazos." Convicts in these prisons worked along the river cutting sugar cane and picking cotton. They were treated brutally, and, on a regular basis, men dropped over in the fields from exhaustion and sunstroke. In the book titled "Racehoss" (and in a related film by the same name) a man named Albert Sample, who served time in a penitentiary on the Brazos, states that the prison was referred to by the convicts as "the burnin' hell." Some convicts tired to escape by making a run for the river. And, in making that break, you might say that they were running from hell to the arms of God.

gillessants

Obrigado pela informação.

gillessants

Obrigado pela informação.

Laércio Sikorski

O que você entende por nasceu? Esta éra uma canção folclórica cantada pelos prisioneiros no Estado do Texas (EUA), no início do século a maioria dos presidios deste estado cituavam-se na região do Rio Brazos... e pelo que ouvimos na canção os prisioneiros certamente trabalhavam cortando cana... vários artistas gravaram, e existem várias versões diferentes (a mais famosa é do grupo Walkers) mas esta deste vídeo foi uma das primeiras gravações (se não a primeira) em estúdio.

gillessants

Foi aí que nasceu essa linda música?

Sam Collins

yes. not sure how this one was forgotten..it's all got to start somewhere. thanks!

alzo61

What an emotionally powerful version...I shed my share of tears, it's so heartfelt...Thank you...

ODETTA

ODETTA - NO MORE CANE ON THE BRAZOS