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intereact!Johnny Cash
Retail Price (not our price): $11.98
Release Date: 1999-10-19
Manufacturer: Sony
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential recording
Johnny Cash had been breaking new ground for a decade when At Folsom Prison suddenly made the world at large take notice. The interaction of a volatile prison population starved for entertainment and a desperately on-form Johnny Cash was electrifying. His somber machismo finally found a home. The songs, which included every prison song Cash knew ("I Got Stripes," "The Wall," "25 Minutes to Go," "Cocaine Blues," plus his own "Folsom Prison Blues") were tailored to galvanize the crowd. This set is all about atmosphere. Live at the Grand Ole Opry this ain't. The 1999 version drops the San Quentin portion of the original CD reissue, instead adding three cuts to complete the full and uncensored Folsom show. --Colin Escott
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5
1) Real Music! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
My favorite is not at all country, but this is some of my favorite music. The spirit of a live Johhny Cash show in Folsom Prison is deffinetely felt through the music. If you want real country music, buy.2) Johnny Cash "At Folsom Prison" [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I bought this CD for my 86 year old Mother, who lives with me. She loves Johnny Cash's singing. I also like listening to this CD. I was brought up on this kind of music.3) Classic Cash [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Great show by the man in black. At times he plays it up a little bit much with the inmates, but overall one great performance after another.4) I wasn't a fan going in, but I was coming out [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I've never been big on country music, so I was skeptical about this. All doubts had disappeared by track 4 or 5. What a great album! The music holds up on its own, and while its technically simplistic and formulaic (the guitars are all palm-muted cross picking with a IV-I-IV-I bass line) there's a passion and energy to it that somehow rings true. Johnny also has a fantastic speaking voice, and his "singing" is more of a "melodic spoken word" that was especially effective.On its own, I'd probably give this album 4 stars, but what pushes it into 5-star classic territory is the setting: live at Folsum Prison. It's certainly a surreal listening experience, hearing all those hardened cons cheering at the "wrong" moments and the warden making announcements between songs. Johnny has a great rapport with the audience, and the set list--all about jail, murder, etc.--clearly spoke to their hearts. It's hard not to get caught up in their enthusiasm.If you own only one country album, this is the one to have.5) JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON ! ( a legend and a classic) [Rating: 5 out of 5]
My oldest memories of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (1968) are as a kid, watching my dad and his buddies standing around our '65 Ford Galaxie 500 (390 cu.in./4 bbl.) talking shop, drinking Budweiser in cans, and listening to At Folsom Prison on the car's 8-track tape player. Those guys didn't really care much about The Beatles, The Stones, Woodstock, or Haight-Ashbury. They made an honest living, provided for their families, looked out for their neighbors, and LOVED Johnny Cash, though. I still think about those days and those hard working men when I listen to this album today. Most of those guys, including the legend who was providing the soundtrack, are dead now. The memories and the music still remain. At Folsom Prison is a great way to listen to Johnny Cash. He's in his element, right at home with this crowd, and he gives them the best he's got. His soon-to-be bride, June Carter (they were married a few months after this concert) makes an appearance to sing a duet with Johnny on their hit single, Jackson. Cash's long-time guitarist, Luther Perkins is in the band, and his brother Carl Perkins (Blue Suede Shoes) plays guitar on the album, too. And the famous Statler Brothers provide the backing vocals. The album's opener, Folsom Prison Blues, is obviously a popular song with California's Folsom Prison inmates, and the line, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" gets an enthusiastic response. The album features several prison songs, such as Cocaine Blues, I Got Stripes, The Wall, and 25 Minutes To Go. Good choices for this appreciative audience, and you can feel the connection Johnny makes with them through his music. Dark As A Dungeon, I Still Miss Someone, and Lefty Frizell's haunting Long Black Veil slow things down, creating a somber and mournful mood. There are moments of fun and celebration with Orange Blossom Special, Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog, and Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart. Johnny Cash is in top form on At Folsom Prison, and he tears through these songs with zeal and spirit. He's in a great mood, too, as he cracks a few jokes here and there. Appropriately, Johnny ends the show with Greystone Chapel, a song written by Glen Sherley, a Folsom Prison inmate doing life for armed robbery, and in the audience that night. There's a Greystone chapel here at FolsomA house of worship in this den of sinYou wouldn't think God had a place at FolsomBut He's saved the soul of many lost menJohnny Cash At Folsom Prison is a great album, a real classic from an American legend. On January 13, 1968, that legend gave the inmates at Folsom State Prison a show they would never forget.