Soul Incarcerated
A+E's Soul Incarcerated podcast tells the story of Edge of Daybreak, a 1970s soul band that recorded their album 'Eyes of Love' while incarcerated at a Virginia penitentiary during America's prison boom. Journalist Jamie Pietras traces the musicians' journey from growing up under segregation to facing armed robbery convictions and finding each other through a prison music program. The series explores their music in historical context and follows their attempt at a comeback over 40 years later.
Episodes
Reaching Your Apex
The band members get settled back in Virginia and eagerly await the finished new album.Cupcake, however, isn’t feeling great about how things turned out and asks for another shot in the studio But a week before her scheduled recording, shesuffers another momentous loss. Can Cupcake push through more heartbreak to find her voice at this pivotal moment? And will Edge of Daybreak finally fulfil
Bad Old Los Angeles
Getting together after so many years isn’t without its bumps. After working through a fewpersonality clashes, the band hits another obstacle–a big one. eeling from a recent breakup and a death in her family, Cupcake finds herself unable to sing lead vocals.The band manages to knock out their new songs, but none feature the show-stopping vocalist at the forefront. Is this really an Edge
I Wanna Be a Classic
A legendary LA music producer offers to help the band record their comeback album - but do they still have what it takes, now that they’re being given the chance? The band heads to LA and quickly learns that working with the biggest hit-makers of today feels a whole lot different than when they were just writing for themselves in prison. Creative differences make for an uncertain outcome.See
Second Lives, Second Chances
Life after prison was a mixed bag for the artists who each went their separate way, but Eyes of Love began taking on a life of its own, garnering a mythical status among collectors completely unbeknownst to the band. But that would change when, in 2015, a former bandmate cut a deal to re-release the album, which eventually landed one of their songs in the Oscar-winning film Moonlight. Jamie tracks
Behind the Prison Music
Before they were wards of the state, Neal, Jamal, and Cupcake were twenty-somethings criss-crossing the south in traveling cover bands. That was before felony convictions for armed robbery landed them at Powhatan on extraordinarily long sentences. Having grown up under segregation, they now found themselves in a disproportionately Black national prison population–one that would double in siz
The Band of the State Correctional System
The Powhatan Correctional Center was a hellish place: overcrowded, underfunded, and known for its rampant violence. So how were Neal, Jamal, and Cupcake able to create and perform such soulful, life-affirming music? As America’s prison population began to skyrocket in the late 1970s, the musicians explain how the prison band room gave them the will to make it through their sentences. This is
An Unusual Musical Happening
Harry “Cupcake” Coleman was 29 years old and staring down a 50-year sentence at thePowhatan Correctional Center, the Virginia penitentiary farm just 30 miles west of Richmond. Cupcake was a star vocalist in the prison’s soul ensemble, Edge of Daybreak. On Sept. 14, 1979, she and her bandmates rose to an incredible challenge: they recorded an eight-song LP called Eyes of Love, liv
Introducing: Soul Incarcerated
The Edge of Daybreak was a prison soul ensemble who recorded their first and only album in 1979 when they were incarcerated as young men. In this podcast series, the group’s surviving members try to mount their comeback. Soul Incarcerated tracks their struggles and triumphs along the way. It’s a It’s a story about the liberating power of music, the American ju
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