At San Quentin | 
| Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 6210
Format: Extra Tracks, Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.5
MPN: 074646601723
UPC: 074646601723
EAN: 0074646601723
ASIN: B00004U2GH
Release Date: July 4, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Blue Suede Shows - Carl Perkins | | • | Flowers On The Wall - the Statler Brothers | | • | The Last Thing On My Mind - the Carter Family | | • | June Carter Cash Talks To The Audience - the Carter Family | | • | Wildwood Flower - the Carter Family | | • | Big River - Johnny Cash | | • | I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash | | • | Wreck Of The Old 97 - Johnny Cash | | • | I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash | | • | Medley: The Long Black Veil/Give My Love To Rose - Johnny Cash | | • | Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash | | • | Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash | | • | Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash | | • | Darlin' Companion - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash | | • | Break My Mind - the Carter Family | | • | I Don't Know Where I'm Bound - Johnny Cash | | • | Starkville City Jail - Johnny Cash |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: CASH,JOHNNY
Title: AT SAN QUENTIN-COMPLETE 1969 CONCERT
Street Release Date: 07/04/2000
Domestic
Genre: COUNTRY
Amazon.com essential recording
While Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, the 1968 album that made Cash a household word, spent only two weeks at No. 1, this 1969 follow-up topped the charts for 20 weeks. As with Folsom, the San Quentin LP had to be edited due to space limitations. Now, 31 years after the fact, the show can at last be heard in true perspective. All the original performances hold up, including the album's hit single: Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue," presented unbleeped for the first time. Equally impressive are the eight restored tracks and unexpurgated between-song patter. Cash's opening renditions of "Big River" and "I Still Miss Someone" are bracing. So are four closing songs teaming Cash with his complete performing troupe (the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers). Their gospel performances ("He Turned the Water into Wine," "The Old Account," and an early version of "Daddy Sang Bass") are electrifying, as is a concluding medley featuring everyone. Cash is presented here at his roaring, primal best. --Rich Kienzle
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An American classic May 26, 2005
Greg Brady (Capital City)
178 out of 183 found this review helpful
Asking "Which Cash prison album is best: San Quentin or Folsom Prison?" is like saying "Which of your lungs is your favourite?". They're both essential to ANY music collection. (If pressed by a particularly menacing and armed inmate, I'd lean towards the more atmospheric FOLSOM.) Which one you like best will probably depend on whether you want a more comprehensive take on Cash's music (the love songs and gospel on this one) or one aimed square at his audience (the prison song laden "Folsom").
Read the glowing praise from Merle Haggard (or Marty Stuart if you want someone of more recent vintage) and look at any critic's list of "Essential" country music and this will be on it. Look at the better pop critics' lists and even they will recognize this as the epochal moment in music that it is.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Choosing the best tunes here is hard, but I'll try. As on Folsom, Johnny performs an actual prisoner's song (T. Cuttie's "I Don't Know Where I'm Bound"). Cuttie's lyric is a classic tale about "rambling" and the search for identity. The reaction to the title song's line "San Quentin, may you rot and burn in He*l" is a "goosebump" moment for me. The audience loved it so much they demanded he sing it again...immediately. (Afterwards Cash remarks "I'm starting to like it myself" with a grin...) "Wanted Man" is surprisingly "commercial" for a collaboration with Bob Dylan. The "funny" songs on this one are also better than "Folsom": "Starkville City Jail" and alltime classic "Boy Named Sue" (which the liners note was being performed for the first time at this show..Cash actually had to read the lyrics off a sheet). "Daddy Sang Bass" is a great number,too...no doubt because the lyric (from Carl Perkins) reflected Cash's own upbringing. It's abetted by June Carter Cash, Perkins himself, and the Statler Brothers' harmony.
LOWS:
No clunkers at all this time. There's nothing here I'd remove...and that includes the bonus songs. This is as perfect as it gets on a song by song basis.
BOTTOM LINE:
I hope you're looking at this for 1 of 2 reasons:
1) You came here to vote on reviews
2) You're updating the copy you have to the newer remastered version.
If it's because you don't actually own this, click "Buy this" and hope that no one sees you do it. If someone does, lie and say you HAD a copy but it was stolen and you're replacing it.ESSENTIAL to every music collection.
Just totally awesome. July 6, 2005
H3@+h (VT)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
I can safely say that any positive comment directed towards this album is 100% true. I have this on vinyl also, and this remaster is ten times as great. Just look at the tracklist here, it's practically a live hits album. Included is "I Walk The Line", "Darlin' Companion", "Boy Named Sue", "Peace In The Valley", "Ring Of Fire", and numerous other classics. However, what really makes "At San Quentin" amazing, is the between song chat between Johnny and the prisoners. It adds emotion and humor, and a real look at the kind of man Johnny was. This album alone solidified his status as rebel and legend. Another major plus besides the better sound and extra tracks is the price. This is the no-brainer of no-brainers. In summary, "At San Quentin" is the real Johnny Cash, it's real country, and even more than that it's just real good music.
Johnny Cash: An American Treasure April 1, 2008
Jokerman1983 (Malibu, USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash is undoubtedly as essential to American music as Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, and Hank Williams. His contributions are admired by both country aficionados and rockers alike. On none of his releases is the reason why as apparent as with his "Live At San Quentin" release.
Here, we're treated to rousing renditions of early Cash classics "Big River," "I Still Miss Somone," and "I Walk The Line" alongside revamped versions of "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring Of Fire," and "Wreck Of The Old 97." Needless to say, the addition of Carl Perkins to the list of backing musicians has a great deal to do with the musical quality of this show! However, the musical highlights don't stop there:
At San Quentin, Cash introduces new numbers / soon to be hits such as "A Boy Named Sue" and "Jackson," as well as the biting "San Quentin" and "Starkville City Jail." On the double-disc boxed set, Cash also welcomes upcoming act The Statler Brothers and bluegrass favorites The Carter Family (now consisting of Mother Maybelle and her daughters). No longer limited to merely country or gospel numbers, modern era folk and rock covers include the eclectic and often-covered "Break My Mind," the Lovin' Spoonful's "Darlin' Companion," Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing On My Mind," and Carl Perkins' classic "Blue Suede Shoes" (performed by the master himself)!
Cash's passing would leave an empty space in American music, but the legacy of recordings he left behind and the artists he inspired (and continues to inspire) will deservedly live on as a true American treasure.
The Rough-Cut King of Country Music at His Best! August 15, 2000
Michael J. Hayde (USA)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Pay no attention to whatever critic asserted that this album should have "remained in solitary." The LP version was my first Johnny Cash album; I've since collected them all, but this new CD takes first place. What a show!Cash purists who've seen the Granada TV special made in conjunction with the album know that this CD is neither "complete" nor "uncensored." At least two songs are missing: "Orange Blossom Special" and "Jackson." (At three different places on the disc you can hear convicts calling out the latter title; rest assured Cash and his wife did oblige them.) An off-color remark Cash made to a TV cameraman at the close of "I Walk the Line" has been trimmed. Also, unlike last year's "At Folsom Prison" reissue, the selections here are not in original running order. But knowing this diminishes neither the importance of what IS here, nor the CD's enjoyment factor. This album marked the debut of lead guitarist Bob Wootten, who'd replaced the late Luther Perkins, originator of Cash's "boom-chicka-boom" backing. Wootten was never hotter than during his first year with the troupe, and his double-timed licks add to the sense of wild urgency that permeates the concert. And vintage rock-n-roll fans need to get this album if only to hear Carl Perkins. In addition to his licks on John Sebastian's "Darling Companion" and the classic "A Boy Named Sue," Perkins takes a verse of "The Old Account" and displays the kind of southern-black vocal soul that shows up Elvis for the pretender he was. Eric Clapton, among others, knew that Perkins was the real deal; the one verse here proves it. But the main event is Cash. Rough-hewn, raw, unencumbered by neither the drugs of earlier years nor the sense of religious responsibility to come, this is the Man in Black's finest hour of the most successful year of his career. It is THE Cash album to own.
Among best live albums of all time August 7, 2000
Tom Mees (Belgium, Europe)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This album, as 'At Folsom Prison', is a 'Classic' in the true sense of the word. Johnny is raw, honest, in control, moody, funny, scary, moving, inspired and unforgettable. A man's Man. This remastered version of San Quentin is truly a REVELATION! I've had these 2 prison-albums for quite a while, but now the best got even better; Johnny sounds like a hellhound and a saint at the same time. You will never hear an album like this and 'At Folsom Prison' again in your life, it's that impressive,unique, powerful, moving. Also his backing band which features Carl Perkins and June Carter a.o. is super. The sound of this album is just so incredible, it burns a whole through your soul, its contents: rockabilly, blues, gospel, country, folk, all rolled up in one blistering performance. I really hope that this amazing Man will go on with making great music and fully recover from his medical problems. I've got over 600 cd's and rate Johnny Cash as a musician, person, personality among the likes of Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters. Quintessential, go and buy this jewel!
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