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Track Listing
1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Busted - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
3. Dark as the Dungeon
4. I Still Miss Someone
5. Cocaine Blues
6. 25 Minutes to Go
7. Orange Blossom Special
8. Long Black Veil, The
9. Send a Picture of Mother
10. Wall, The
11. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
12. Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart
13. Joe Bean - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
14. Jackson - (with June Carter)
15. Give My Love to Rose - (with June Carter)
16. I Got Stripes
17. Legend of John Henry's Hammer, The - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
18. Green, Green Grass of Home
19. Greystone Chapel
Album Notes
This is a multi-channel Super Audio CD playable only in Super Audio CD players.
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter, The Carter Family (vocals); Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins (electric guitar); Marshall Grant (drums); The Statler Brothers (background vocals).
Producer: Bob Johnston.
Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
Recorded live at Folsom Prison, Folsom, California on January 13, 1968. Includes liner notes by Johnny Cash and Steve Earle.
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers (vocals); Luther Perkins, Carl Perkins (electric guitar); Marshall Grant (bass guitar); W. S. "Fluke" Holland (drums).
Recording information: 1968.
Want to hear part of the reason why Johnny Cash is an icon, a singer respected and influential in country, folk, and rock & roll? THIS is it! In 1968--one of the most tumultuous years in American history since the Depression years--Cash recorded an album live in front of a (literally) captive (but wildly appreciative) audience, in Folsom Prison. With two guitars, bass, drums, and a small vocal group (including Cash's wife June Carter Cash and the Statler Brothers), Cash sings his hits and lesser-known songs ("Send a Picture of Mother") and some haunting country standards ("Dark as a Dungeon"), as well as songs about REAL outlaws ("Cocaine Blues") to a rapt audience that hangs on every word. That boom-chicka-boom sound is sharp as the first mean wind of winter, and Cash is in fine fettle (though his voice cracks from time to time). With its unique setting, this is as harrowing an album as any ever recorded.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...represents Cash at the peak of his powers, bringing a highly combustible mixture of joy and pain to 2000 excitable inmates....Any more real and full body armor would have had to be supplied.
Q (04/01/2000)
...an impressive performance document that gives a fuller sense of Cash's stage persona and his relationship with the audience....The song order has been corrected to the original performance....[with] 3 previously unreleased songs...
Dirty Linen (02/01/2000)
...finally receiving a proper...reissue....Restored is Cash's salty stage-banter in all of its uncensored glory, alongside every one of the crowd's raucous, foot-stomping, hollering responses....repeatedly delivers the kind of goosebumps that few records can.
CMJ (11/01/1999)
4 stars out of 5 - ...It's an effortless and powerful performance....Touching...
Uncut (03/01/2000)
...You get the sense that Cash could just as easily be in the audience as on stage at this raucous show, and the inmates know it...
Entertainment Weekly (09/26/2003)
Ranked #88 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...Essential Cash....The 2,000 inmates roar their approval...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
Cash's performance of inmate Glen Sherley's 'Greystone Chapel' is the highlight....It's no exaggeration to say that JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON is his masterwork.
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]t chimed perfectly with the rebellious spirit of the times, becoming a turning point for country music...
[A] legendary 1968 concert, activist entertainment on a par with Bob Dylan and Public Enemy.
4 stars out of 5 -- Savour this for the original show in all its primal glory.
Backed by the Tennessee Three, rockabilly guitarist Carl Perkins, and vocal group the Statler Brothers, the 'Man in Black' delivered a passionate mix of unsweetened folk balladry, honky tonk, blues and country gospel.
AT FOLSOM PRISON is a record that has long been considered one of the most influential albums of the '60s....The raw vibe of the performance is captured perfectly...
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