Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
With his Presley-like mystique, a strapping baritone voice for the ages and songs with universal lunch bucket appeal, Johnny Cash straddled the worlds of country, folk and pop music like a black-clad behemoth. The Johnny Cash you hear on this remarkable live performances is not the venerable legend of today. This was the young, feral Cash, full of piss, vinegar and sly orneriness. Even to those who know every note, joke and guitar lick on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison or San Quentin, hearing Cash in his prime, aided and abetted by the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant, is a revelation. These historic documents, sourced directly from the 1958 kinescope reels, capture Cash in his most revolutionary days, laying the bedrock of all that was to come.
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