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The Prisonaires

The Prisonaires has been played on NTS shows including Sounds Of Resistance , with Just Walkin' In The Rain first played on 9 July 2022.

The Prisonaires were an African-American blues group whose hit Just Walkin' in the Rain was released on Sun Records in 1953 while the group was incarcerated in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. The group was led by Johnny Bragg, who had been a penitentiary inmate since 1943 when, at the age of 17, he was convicted of six charges of rape. The Prisonaires were formed when Bragg joined up with two prison gospel singers, Ed Thurman and William Stewart…

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Just Walkin' In The Rain
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