Question

Bruce Jackson’s Wake Up Dead Man records a genre of work song named for these places that includes the American version of “Stewball” and “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos.” (-5[1])One song asks a train to “shine your ever-loving (15[1])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 (15[1])on a street corner in “Little Sadie.” The song (*) “Midnight Special” was performed by Lead Belly for the (10[1])Lomaxes at one of these locations called Angola. A song about the “blues” of one of these places is titled a song by Johnny Cash, who often performed (10[1])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
Stephen LiuWe joppingWhy the Kremlin Hates Bananas30-5
Rahul Keyal5Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co3915
Aseem KeyalbruhTOAD6815
Taylor HarveyStatler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl EditorsOh you like geography? Name every Forrest.8610
Chris GrubbWhy the Kremlin Hates BananasWe jopping11410

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