At Folsom Prison | 
| Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Sony Bmg Europe
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 317134
Format: Import, Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 828767144726
UPC: 828767144726
EAN: 0082876714472
ASIN: B0009XFMY2
Release Date: August 16, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Folsom Prison Blues | | • | Busted [#][*] | | • | Dark as the Dungeon | | • | I Still Miss Someone | | • | Cocaine Blues | | • | 25 Minutes to Go | | • | Orange Blossom Special | | • | Long Black Veil | | • | Send a Picture of Mother | | • | Wall | | • | Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog | | • | Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart | | • | Joe Bean [#][*] | | • | Jackson - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash | | • | Give My Love to Rose - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash | | • | I Got Stripes | | • | Legend of John Henry's Hammer [#][*] | | • | Green, Green Grass of Home | | • | Greystone Chapel |
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Track: 10: The Wall,Track: 11: Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog,Track: 12: Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart,Track: 13: Joe Bean,Track: 14: Jackson (With June Carter),Track: 15: Give My Love To Rose (With June Carter Cash),Track: 16: I Got Stripes,Track: 17: The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer,Track: 18: Green, Green Grass Of Home,Track: 19: Greystone Chapel,Track: 1: Folsom Prison Blues,Track: 2: Busted,Track: 3: Dark As The Dungeon,Track: 4: I Still Miss Someone,Track: 5: Cocaine Blues,Track: 6: 25 Minutes To Go,Track: 7: Orange Blossom Special,Track: 8: The Long Black Veil,Track: 9: Send A Picture Of Mother
Media Type: CD
Artist: CASH,JOHNNY
Title: AT FOLSOM PRISON-VINYL CLASSICS
Street Release Date: 07/26/2005
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Genre: COUNTRY
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| Customer Reviews:
Johnny Cash's classic prison album singing songs of darkness and rage, August 29, 2005
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash was a legendary figure of American music who often seemed the embodiment of an prophet from the Old Testament (and not one of the happier ones at that). With the upcoming release of the Johnny Cash bio-pici "Walk the Line," with Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, there will once again be an impulse to want to listen to the man and his music, just as there was when he passed. But you really need to resist the urge to take the easy way out and listen to one of the greatest hits collections of The Man in Black (after all, the first Johnny Cash hits album came out forty years ago). Instead you track done one of the superb albums that he put out during his music career.
From that perspective "At Folsom Prison" is one of twon quinetessnetial Johnny Cash albums from what ended up being the "early" part of one of the great careers in American music. Of course, the other is "At San Quentin." Both albums were recorded live in front of eager audiences of prison inmates in the late 1960s and provide ample proof of why Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in country music. Most of both albums can be found on a single CD, but for today's sermon let me just preach to the choir on why this one is the better of the two.
Part of the reason this is a great album is because Cash clearly plays to his audience, singing songs about prison, crime and murder, loss and regret, mother and God, and most importantly loneliness. There is no sugarcoating of the harsh realities of prison life in these songs as Cash sings the songs of the gospel of darkness and rage. Cash's singing is truly authentic (you can feel him feeding off of his audience) and the result is compelling cathartic. This is not an album filled with hits although there are certainly several recognizable songs: "Folsom Prison Blues," "Jackson," and "I Still Miss Someone." But it will be the ones you might never have heard before, such as "I Got Stripes," that stand out in your mind after listening to the album.
This was already a 5 star album, but this 2005 reissue CD again provides the entire concert (following the 1999 reissue), adding three previously unreleased tracks: "Busted," "Joe Bean," and "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer." "At Folsom Prison" is an essential Johnny Cash album and if you own just two Johnny Cash CDs I would pick this one and 1994's "American Recording." They will surely give you the measure of the Man in Black and his music if for some strange reason you would decide you only wanted two of his albums in your music collection.
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