White Mansions
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| Studio album by Various artists | ||||
| Released | June 1978 | |||
| Genre | Country, outlaw country | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Glyn Johns | |||
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White Mansions is a 1978 album by various artists documenting the lives of American southerners in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The songs on the album were written by Paul Kennerley and are performed by Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, John Dillon and Steve Cash. Each singer took on a separate and distinct persona, portraying different characters in an attempt to show the Confederacy and the concept of "Southern pride" through said characters' eyes; in essence, therefore, White Mansions is a concept album. Eric Clapton played guitar on several tracks. The album charted at #38 on the Country Billboard chart and #181 on the Billboard 200.
The album was re-released in 1999 in a two-for-one package with The Legend of Jesse James, a 1980 concept album conceived by Kennerley.
The four main characters portrayed in the album are:
In addition, a single brief track is performed by Rodena Preston's Voices of Deliverance credited as "The Slaves"; this, as is explained in the liner notes, is symbolic, in that, "despite the fact that they represented over a third of the population of the South, their voice was seldom heard".
All songs written or co-written by Paul Kennerley; "White Trash" co-written by Bernie Leadon.
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