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| Genre/Form: | Live sound recordings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Material Type: | Music | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Document Type: | Sound Recording | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music Type: | Ballads; Songs; Country music | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Johnny Cash; June Carter Cash; Marshall Grant, bassist.; W S Holland; Carl Perkins; Luther Perkins; Carter Family (Musical group); Statler Brothers. |
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| OCLC Number: | 42903454 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes: | Compact disc. Ballads, prison songs, and country music. Originally released in 1968; includes 3 previously unreleased selections. Program notes by Johnny Cash and Steve Earle (23 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
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| Credits: | Original recordings produced by Bob Johnston. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performer(s): | Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; June Carter, Carter Family, Statler Brothers, vocals ; Marshall Grant, bass ; W.S. Holland, drums ; Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins, electric guitars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production notes: | Recorded live, Jan. 13, 1968 at Folsom Prison. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional Description: | Traditional Country, Progressive Country, Country-Pop, Pop/Rock, United States of America, Rock & Roll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre / Style: | Country; Traditional Country, Rock & Roll, Progressive Country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Release Date: | 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contents: |
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| Track Picks: | Folsom Prison Blues; I Still Miss Someone; Cocaine Blues | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series Title: | American milestones series. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Titles: | At Folsom Prison |
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All Music Guide
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.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Read more...
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