1940’s Country Western Prison Sensation Brought Back to Life

The Goree Girls String Band is famous for being one of the first all female country and Western bands (ie: Dixie Chicks circa 1940’s), for having over 6 million listeners weekly, and for being prisoners at what was once Texas’s only female prison – the Goree Farm.

This amazing story in American music history, nearly forgotten, is now in production to be a feature film, thanks to a number of people, namely the author of the Texas Monthly article “O Sister, Where Art Thou?” Skip Hollandsworth, film and television actress Jennifer Aniston, and most importantly the Goree Girls.

Read Skip Hollandsworth’s article.