Question

Bruce Jackson’s Wake Up Dead Man records a genre of song named for these places, which includes the American version of “Stewball” and “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos.” One song asks a train to “shine your ever-loving light” on the singer in one of these places. The singer goes to one of these places in Thomasville after being asked if he is named Brown when standing on a street corner in “Little Sadie.” The song (*) “Midnight Special” was performed by Lead Belly for the Lomaxes at one of these locations called (10[1])Angola. The “blues” of a specific (10[1])one of these places titles a song by Johnny Cash, whose lines include “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” and was often performed at examples of these places like San Quentin. For 10 points, name this type of place where, in ballads, many murderers are housed before their hanging. ■END■

ANSWER: prison [or jail; accept prison farm or prison with a chain gang; prompt on chain gang with “in what place did people on a chain gang live?”, accept Folsom Prison Blues]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Other Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Brendan BaumerUCFUF A9210
Roman BassettUF BUF C9810

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2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%33%0%78.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%95.00
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