Clara Parrish’s Reviews > Just Walkin' in the Rain: The True Story of the Prisonaires: the Convict Pioneers of R & B and Rock & Roll > Status Update

"The most important thing was the inmates... see, if the inmates didn't like like it, you couldn't make it. It was up to the inmates, not the governor, because if they didn't like it, they'd kill you, so the inmates were behind us a hundred percent. The White boys and the Black boys, that's the way it was. And it was strictly a Black group!"