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Johnny Cash’s ‘At Folsom Prison’: An Oral History

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--- Quote --- Decades after Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison album was recorded, it remains as mythical as ever. The concert and its star bore into the international imagination and for various reasons never left it. Dressed in his trademark black on January 13th, 1968, he paradoxically celebrated prison and outlaw life while creating a damning portrait of the prison experience that pricked the era’s concern for society’s outcasts. It was also the first live recording of a prison performance, and it crystalized Cash’s dark image. And then it thrust into the public spotlight chiseled inmate Glen Sherley, who embodied Cash’s belief that compassion for prisoners could lead to redemption for us all.

The stories around the Folsom album spiraled up like a dust devil,........
--- End quote ---

IMNSHO,this is one of the best albums ever produced,regardless of musical category. It just grabs you from the first beat and takes you for a ride.

The movie was also epic,and you owe it to yourself to watch and listen to it. Nothing very fancy,just cash and his friends,along with  June Carter on stage at Folsom Prison,playing and singing  to the inmates,who  are ABSOLUTELY losing their freaking minds. If they would have smiled any wider,their faces would have split open and bled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0fS4DoGUc]


--- Quote --- Decades after Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison album was recorded, it remains as mythical as ever. The concert and its star bore into the international imagination and for various reasons never left it. Dressed in his trademark black on January 13th, 1968, he paradoxically celebrated prison and outlaw life while creating a damning portrait of the prison experience that pricked the era’s concern for society’s outcasts. It was also the first live recording of a prison performance, and it crystalized Cash’s dark image. And then it thrust into the public spotlight chiseled inmate Glen Sherley, who embodied Cash’s belief that compassion for prisoners could lead to redemption for us all.

The stories around the Folsom album spiraled up like a dust devil,........
--- End quote ---

IMNSHO,this is one of the best albums ever produced,regardless of musical category. It just grabs you from the first beat and takes you for a ride.

The movie was also epic,and you owe it to yourself to watch and listen to it. Nothing very fancy,just cash and his friends,along with  June Carter on stage at Folsom Prison,playing and singing  to the inmates,who  are ABSOLUTELY losing their freaking minds. If they would have smiled any wider,their faces would have split open and bled.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0fS4DoGUc

Even if you  don't care for country music,you  owe it to yourself to watch and  listen to  this.

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