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At Folsom Prison [1999 Expanded Edition]
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Album Details: At Folsom Prison [1999 Expanded Edition]

Release Date:10/01/2007
Label:Sbme Import
UPC:886970254427

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    Buy This Even If You Don't Like Country Music

    By Rex  Oct 16, 2006

    Pros: You have no other music like this in your collection.

    Cons: It's a live performance in a prison. Love it or hate it.

    I would recommend this CD to anyone. Yes, Johnny Cash is a Country musician, but this 1968 CD is exceptional by any measure. If you can close your eyes and put yourself there, you will get something out of this CD. He's playing live to 2000 inma...tes at one of California's toughest prisons. The CD is uncensored, and includes various prison sounds, including closing doors and raspy PA system announcements, and Johnny Cash's exchanges with the prisoners and complaints about the water. The musical selections are varied. The CD starts with his well known "Folsom Prison Blues", goes to humorous ("25 Minutes to Go," a little ditty about the last 25 minutes a prisoner spends before being hanged), and ends up on a gospel-ish note ("Greystone Chapel"). I know online purchase is the way to buy music these days, but if you buy the American Milestones version of the CD, you'll get all kinds of photos and notes that bring depth and grit to the music. Read more Less

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    Better than Elvis

    By whofan  Jan 21, 2006

    Pros: Cash is king

    Cons: none

    Johnny Cash was the Greatest. This album is better than anything Elvis ever did. I`m not an Elvis fan anyway. Johnny Cash was the greatest solo artist of all time. This with San Quentin are the two best albums for any collection.

Pro Reviews: At Folsom Prison [1999 Expanded Edition]

  • All Music Guide

    At Folsom Prison was one of two legendary live albums Johnny Cash recorded in front of a prison audience in the late '60s. Part of the appeal of the records is the way Cash plays to the audience, selecting a set of songs that are all about prison, crime, murder, regret, loss, mother, God, and loneliness. Cash stimulates the audience's emotions, which in turn stimulates his performance, especially since he delivers the songs with the conviction of someone who has lived through it. There aren't many hits on the record "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Still Miss Someone," "Jackson," "Give My Love to Rose," and "I Got Stripes" are the familiar items but few albums come as close to capturing the darkness and rage that lays deep in Cash's music, as well as the depth of his talent. [The 1999 CD reissue of At Folsom Prison presents the complete concert, including three previously unreleased tracks: "Busted," "Joe Bean," and "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer."] - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music ...Guide Read more Less

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Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Cash didn't sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock roll. He created his own sub-genre, falling halfway between the blunt emotional honesty of folk, ... Read more