At Folsom Prison

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At Folsom Prison
Live album by Johnny Cash

Publication
(s)

1968

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD (RR)

Genre (s)

Country music

Title (number)

19 (RR)

running time

55 min 56 s (RR)

occupation

production

Bob Johnston (Original) / Bob Irwin (RR)

Studio (s)

Recorded live at Folsom State Prison

chronology
From Sea to Shining Sea
(1968) 		At Folsom Prison Old Golden Throat
(1968)

At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash that was recorded on January 13, 1968 at Folsom State Prison , California and released in May of that year. In addition to Cash and his band Tennessee Three , his future wife June Carter and The Carter Family also performed , guest musicians were Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers .

The album was number one on the US country charts for three weeks, was on the US pop charts for two and a half years and sold more than six million copies. In addition, the album was voted number 88 of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by the renowned music magazine Rolling Stone . In 1969, Cash released another prison album, At San Quentin .

more publishments

The album was re-released on CD in 1999. This edition includes three more songs than the original 1968 release: Busted , Joe Bean, and The Legend of John Henry's Hammer . In addition, the censoring beeps have been removed.

In 2008 the concert appeared again in a Legacy Edition . Both concerts from January 13, 1968, which were edited for the original album, can be heard on two CDs (only two songs from the second show were used on the record). In addition to numerous unreleased cash recordings, both repeated pieces from the second show and two exuberant songs from the first, the opening act with Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers was also taken over without exception. A DVD included with the set also shows a film about the background of the concert.

Title List (Republished 1999)

  1. Folsom Prison Blues (J. Cash) - 2:42
  2. Busted (H. Howard) - 1:25
  3. Dark as a Dungeon ( M. Travis ) - 3:04
  4. I Still Miss Someone (J. Cash - R. Cash, Jr.) - 1:38
  5. Cocaine Blues (TJ Arnall) - 3:01
  6. 25 Minutes to Go ( S. Silverstein ) - 3:31
  7. Orange Blossom Special (ET Rouse) - 3:06
  8. The Long Black Veil ( Wilkin - D. Dill) - 3:58
  9. Send a Picture of Mother (J. Cash) - 2:05
  10. The Wall (H. Howard) - 1:36
  11. Dirty Old Egg-Suckin 'Dog ( JH Clement ) - 1:30
  12. Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart (JH Clement) - 2:05
  13. Joe Bean (B. Freeman - L. Pober) - 3:05
  14. Jackson (duet with June Carter) (B. Wheeler - J. Lieber) - 3:12
  15. Give My Love to Rose (J. Cash) - 2:43
  16. I Got Stripes (duet with June Carter) (J. Cash - C. Williams) - 1:52
  17. The Legend of John Henry's Hammer (J. Cash - J. Carter) - 7:08
  18. Green, Green Grass of Home (C. Putman) - 2:13
  19. Greystone Chapel ( Glen Sherley ) - 6:02

Publications and chart successes

Album (US Billboard Charts )

year Chart position
1968 Country albums 1
1968 Pop albums 13

Singles (US Billboard Charts)

year single Chart position
1968 Folsom Prison Blues Country singles 1
1968 Folsom Prison Blues Pop singles 32

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) Platinum record icon.svg platinum 100,000
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum 3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Gold record icon.svg gold 100,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg1 × gold
Platinum record icon.svg4 × platinum
 3,200,000

Main article: Johnny Cash / Music Sales Awards

literature

  • Gene Beley: Folsom Prison Blues. In: Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter 2005, pp. 218-227 ( online ).
  • Michael Streissguth: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The story of a masterpiece. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8077-1086-0 .

Movies

Walk the line

The main plot of the biographical film about Johnny Cash's life Walk the Line , published in 2005, takes place largely during the concert in Folsom. Cash's comment “This show is being recorded for an album release on Columbia Records and you can't say 'hell' or 'shit' or anything like that.” ( “This show is being recorded for an album on Columbia Records , so you should not saying 'hell' or 'shit' or anything like that. ”) can be heard on the album as well as his comments about the poor quality of the drinking water in prison.

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a 90-minute documentary from 2008 about this and other Johnny Cash prison concerts.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johnny Cash - Story and Songs compact, p. 96
  2. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/johnny-cash-at-folsom-prison-20120524
  3. ↑ Description of the film by the production company c-films . c-films. Retrieved September 12, 2015

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