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Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison [Live]

Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash's legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison. The ideal blend of mythmaking and gritty reality, At Folsom Prison is the moment when Cash turned into the towering Man in Black, a haunted troubadour singing songs of crime, conflicted conscience, and jail. Surely, this dark outlaw stance wasn't a contrivance but it was an exaggeration, with Cash creating this image by tailoring his set list to his audience of prisoners, filling up the set with tales of murder and imprisonment -- a bid for common ground with the convicts, but also a sly way to suggest that maybe Cash really did shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Given the cloud of death that hangs over the songs on At Folsom Prison, there's a temptation to think of it as a gothic, gloomy affair or perhaps a repository of rage, but what's striking about Cash's performance is that he never romanticizes either the crime or the criminals: if anything, he underplays the seriousness with his matter-of-fact ballad delivery or how he throws out wry jokes. Cash is relating to the prisoners and he's entertaining them too, singing "Cocaine Blues" like a bastard on the run, turning a death sentence into literal gallows humor on "25 Minutes to Go," playing "I Got Stripes" as if it were a badge of pride. Never before had his music seemed so vigorous as it does here, nor had he tied together his humor, gravity, and spirituality in one record. In every sense, it was a breakthrough, but more than that, At Folsom Prison is the quintessential Johnny Cash album, the place where his legend burns bright and eternal. [This Expanded Edition of At Folsom Prison added three bonus tracks to the songs included in the original 16-track LP.]

  1 
Folsom Prison Blues  song review
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:42 SpotifyRdio 
2 
Busted
Harlan Howard
Johnny Cash
1:24  
3 
Dark as the Dungeon
Merle Travis
Johnny Cash
3:04 SpotifyRdio 
4 
I Still Miss Someone  song review
Johnny Cash / Roy Cash
Johnny Cash
1:37 Rdio 
5 
Cocaine Blues
T.J. "Red" Arnall
Johnny Cash
3:01 SpotifyRdio 
6 
25 Minutes to Go
Shel Silverstein
Johnny Cash
3:31 SpotifyRdio 
7 
Orange Blossom Special
Ervin T. Rouse
Johnny Cash
3:00 SpotifyRdio 
8 
The Long Black Veil
Danny Dill / Marijohn Wilkin
Johnny Cash
3:57 SpotifyRdio 
9 
Send a Picture of Mother
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:10 SpotifyRdio 
10 
The Wall
Harlan Howard
Johnny Cash
1:36  
11 
Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog
Jack Clement
Johnny Cash
1:30 SpotifyRdio 
12 
Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
Jack Clement
Johnny Cash
2:17 SpotifyRdio 
13 
Joe Bean
Bud Freeman / Léon Pober
Johnny Cash
2:25  
14 
Jackson
Gaby Rodgers / Billy Edd Wheeler
Johnny Cash
feat: June Carter Cash
3:12  
15 
Give My Love to Rose
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
feat: June Carter Cash
2:40 SpotifyRdio 
16 
I Got Stripes  song review
Johnny Cash / Charlie Williams
Johnny Cash
1:57 SpotifyRdio 
17 
The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash
Johnny Cash
7:08 SpotifyRdio 
18 
Green, Green Grass of Home
Curly Putman
Johnny Cash
2:29 SpotifyRdio 
19 
Greystone Chapel
Glen Sherley / G. Shirley
Johnny Cash
6:02


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