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Author Resurrects The Lost Voices Of Texas Jailhouse Music

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Posted on December 14, 2017 · In her book, Texas Jailhouse Music, Caroline Gnagy tells the stories of musicians inside Texas prisons in the 1920s and 1930s.

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