Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
Uncensored
CD Columbia Legacy CK- 659545
Johnny's Historic 1968 Live Show Restored
To Original Order And Uncensored
20 -Bit Digitally Remastered
Track List
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Busted
- Dark As A Dungeon
- I Still Miss Someone
- Cocaine Blues
- 25 Minutes To Go
- Orange Blossom Special
- The Long Black Veil
- Send A Picture Of Mother
- The Wall
- Dirty Old Eggsuckin Dog
- Flush From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
- Joe Bean
- Jackson ( June Carter Cash )
- Give My Love To Rose ( With June Carter Cash )
- I Got Stripes
- The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer
- Green Green Grass Of Home
- Greystone Chapel ( Written Glen Sherley )
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 audience, in Folsom Prison, in front of a wildly appreciative audience. 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") and
songs about REAL outlaws ("Cocaine Blues") to a rapt audience that hangs onto
every word. That boom-chicka-boom sound is sharp as the first mean wind of winter, and
Cash is in fine voice (though his voice cracks from time to time). With its unique
setting, this is as harrowing an album as any ever recorded.
Folsom Prison 1968
The show at folsom was a long one and I
always thought that the songs that were not on the album were as worthy of being heard as
the ones that were. And the memories, there are scenes as sharp in my memory as if it were
last night ! The look on Glen Sherley’s face as I announced his song, the reaction
from the cons when I introduced myself and faces. The Pain and hopelessness of the soul
beaten down of failure, of to stay free of the system, of failure to be able to ignore
today’s pain.
Johnny Cash Shaking Hands With Glen Sherley
But there are swelling balloons of joy to
burst in a couple of hours for sure when they have to go back to their cells. But for now,
let it blow ! We are in the timeless now ! There now calendar in the cafeteria today,
January 13, 1968
I’m singing sweet
hymns to them of mother, Jesus, freedom, children. But of course the walls as well, and
the joyous, most scared. Freedom of the spirit. Dig in, join in, share in the joy with men
who only had a couple of hours in months, maybe years time. There’s some stuff here
I’m proud of. Johnny Cash
Revised: September 03, 2007
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