![]() ![]() Described as worried but determined before the show, Cash gives a superlative performance, feisty and playful and a bit maudlin. When Cash and his crew arrived to play this show, he had been playing prisons routinely and had even serenaded the rowdy crowds at Folsom before, but this was the first time anyone had seen any commercial benefit in recording a show. This edition of At Folsom Prison is a companion piece of sorts to Columbia/Legacy's 2006 reissue of At San Quentin, but it's easily the greater of the two, if only because it was both such a risky endeavor and such a rewarding payoff. His countercultural appeal during the late 1960s and his abiding popularity throughout the 1970s are grounded in the rough-and-tumble energy he exudes on stage. And it's justified by Cash's notoriously volatile performance, which made this concert the foundation of his mid-career resurgence and the framing device for the 2005 biopic Walk the Line. Call it staged if you want, but the moment comes across as genuine, as if the emcee had told the prisoners what they had planned to do anyway. Johnny Cash: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.Ĭrowd: Goes nuts. Welcome him after he says, 'Johnny Cash.' I'll have my hands up, and you just follow me. I'm Johnny Cash.' When he says that, then you respond.ĭon't respond to him walking out. ![]() When John comes out here, he will say- and which will be recorded- 'Hi there. Here it's revealed to be a rehearsed moment: Hugh Cherry: I need your help. On all previous editions of this concert, whether vinyl, cassette, eight-track, or CD, have begun with that four-word intro, but Columbia/Legacy's new set relegates it to the actual moment in the show, well after Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers have warmed up the crowd. ![]() His signature introduction- as if he actually needed to tell an audience who he was- is one of the best moments in recorded rock history, rendered in his immediately recognizable robust baritone and prompting unabashed applause. It's odd not hearing 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash' at the very beginning of this 2xCD/1xDVD set of the Man in Black's infamous show at Folsom Prison. And MP3, and is still, as far as I'm aware, the most complete edition of the. This review of the expanded Legacy edition of Cash's seminal 1969 live album At San Quentin ran in. ![]() Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Legacy Edition Rar Average ratng: 6,9/10 777 reviewsįrom the Vault: Johnny Cash at San Quentin. ![]()
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