Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968) [FLAC]

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968) [FLAC]





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Released 1968. Re-released 1999.



At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on

Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues",

Cash drew an interest in performing at a prison. His idea was put on

hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put

Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash's material. Cash had

recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to

turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success.

Backed with June Carter, Carl Perkins, and Cash's band,

the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison

in Folsom, California on January 13, 1968. The resulting album

consisted of fifteen tracks from the first show and one track from

the second.



Despite little initial investment by Columbia, the album was a hit

in the United States, reaching number one on the country charts and

the top fifteen of the national album chart. The lead single from

the album, a live version of "Folsom Prison Blues", was a top 40 hit,

Cash's first since 1964's "Understand Your Man". At Folsom Prison

received good reviews upon its release and has since been considered

one of the greatest albums of all time. The ensuing popularity

revitalized Cash's career, and let to a release of a second prison

album, At San Quentin. The album was re-released with additional

tracks in 1999 and as a three-disc set in 2008.



Tracks:



1. "Folsom Prison Blues" – 2:42

2. "Busted" (Harlan Howard) – 1:25

3. "Dark as a Dungeon" – 3:04

4. "I Still Miss Someone" – 1:38

5. "Cocaine Blues" – 3:01

6. "25 Minutes to Go" – 3:31

7. "Orange Blossom Special" – 3:06

8. "The Long Black Veil" – 3:58

9. "Send a Picture of Mother" – 2:05

10. "The Wall" – 1:36

11. "Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog" – 1:30

12. "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart" – 2:05

13. "Joe Bean" (B. Freeman, L. Pober) – 3:05

14. "Jackson" (with June Carter) – 3:12

15. "Give My Love to Rose" (with June Carter) – 2:43

16. "I Got Stripes" – 1:52

17. "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer" (Johnny Cash, June Carter) – 7:08

18. "Green, Green Grass of Home" – 2:13

19. "Greystone Chapel" – 6:02