Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison [Remaster]

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Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison [Remaster]

Artist:: Cash, Johnny

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Description:: This is a multi-channel Super Audio CD playable only in Super Audio CD players.
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter, The Carter Family (vocals); Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins (electric guitar); Marshall Grant (drums); The Statler Brothers (background vocals).
Producer: Bob Johnston.
Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.
Recorded live at Folsom Prison, Folsom, California on January 13, 1968. Includes liner notes by Johnny Cash and Steve Earle.
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers (vocals); Luther Perkins, Carl Perkins (electric guitar); Marshall Grant (bass guitar); W. S. "Fluke" Holland (drums).
Recording information: 1968.
Want to hear part of the reason why Johnny Cash is an icon, a singer respected and influential in country, folk, and rock & roll? THIS is it! In 1968--one of the most tumultuous years in American history since the Depression years--Cash recorded an album live in front of a (literally) captive (but wildly appreciative) audience, in Folsom Prison. With two guitars, bass, drums, and a small vocal group (including Cash`s wife June Carter Cash and the Statler Brothers), Cash sings his hits and lesser-known songs ("Send a Picture of Mother") and some haunting country standards ("Dark as a Dungeon"), as well as songs about REAL outlaws ("Cocaine Blues") to a rapt audience that hangs on every word. That boom-chicka-boom sound is sharp as the first mean wind of winter, and Cash is in fine fettle (though his voice cracks from time to time). With its unique setting, this is as harrowing an album as any ever recorded.