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| Play | 1. Folsom Prison Blues (Live) | 2:42 | $1.29 |  |
| Play | 2. Busted (Live) | 1:24 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 3. Dark As The Dungeon (Live) | 3:04 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 4. I Still Miss Someone (Live/Multichannel/Surround Sound) | 1:37 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 5. Cocaine Blues (Live) | 3:01 | $1.29 | |
| Play | 6. 25 Minutes To Go (Live) | 3:31 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 7. Orange Blossom Special (Live) | 3:00 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 8. The Long Black Veil (Live) | 3:57 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 9. Send A Picture Of Mother (Live) | 2:10 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 10. The Wall (Live) | 1:36 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 11. Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog (Live) | 1:30 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 12. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live) | 2:17 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 13. Joe Bean (Live) | 2:25 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 14. Jackson (Live) | 3:12 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 15. Give My Love To Rose (Live) | 2:40 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 16. I Got Stripes (Live) | 1:57 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 17. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (Live) | 7:08 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 18. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live) | 2:29 | $0.99 | |
| Play | 19. Greystone Chapel (Live) | 6:02 | $0.99 | |
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245 of 253 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The impact of Johnny Cash's proto bad-boy on country, blues, and rock is inestimable, which doesn't even speak to the fact that the man is a great entertainer. If you are a serious music fan, your musical education isn't complete without Live At Folsom Prison.
This isn't a singles record, this is an album; you put it on to hear the whole thing. The performance itself is tight and structured, just like the venue. The recording is especially atmospheric - the reverb bouncing off the concrete walls, the sounds of doors slamming in the background, and an interruption by a prison announcement. Cash and the band (which includes the brilliant Luther Perkins, and his brother Carl - think Blue Suede Shoes) seem unflappable and completely at ease, belying the actual tension of the gig.
This reissue restores the original recording to its raw, warts-and all-feel, in direct contrast to the sanitized version that I grew up with: four songs have been restored to the set due to increased available length, plus Cash's interaction with the audience and the profanity (tasteful by today's standards) has been re-introduced, revealing the incredibly gritty nature of this record. Plus, the packaging is incredible: the handwritten note from Cash, describing why he felt compelled to make this album, the liner notes, and an appreciation from Steve Earle round out the package to create not merely a reissue, but a full restoration.
If you are hungry for something more substantial than the latest Clapton disc or Zeppelin reissue, you won't regret a minute of this terrific album.
247 of 268 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I am definitely not a country music fan, but Johnny Cash goes way beyond the country music spectrum. With songs about boozin', druggin', and killin', Johnny Cash blows away most rock artists. Nothing proves that more than "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison". Recorded live in 1968, in front of 2000 inmates, this is a really rockin' concert. Cash relates to the prisoners' lives with songs like "Folsom Prison Blues", "Cocaine Blues", and even some humorous tunes like "Dirty old egg-suckin' dog". The band, including Carl Perkins on Electric guitar, keeps a clanky, driving, two-beat rhythm that makes this more of a rock-a-billy album than a country album. The CD includes photos of the concert and honest, heart-felt linear notes of the show, written by Cash himself in June of 1999.
After reading these memoirs, you start to realize how much of an event this show must have been, not just to the inmates, but to Cash himself, who apparently is no stranger to Folsom Prison himself.
Johnny Cash is Badass, so if your thinking about picking up that new Creed CD, (not that you would be) DON'T! Pick this up instead.
43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When I heard Johnny Cash had passed away, I was saddened to know his booming baritone would be silent now. I turned on the radio, hoping to catch some fleeting moments of the Man in Black's life in song. Instead, each and every country station (with one or two exceptions) seemed to be going about "business as usual", with nothing besides a "RIP Johnny" message, no full-fledged celebrations of his music to be found.
So I went out and bought Folsom Prison, as I didn't have any Cash records in my collection. Let me just say: I wish I'd gotten this earlier, it's absolutely fantastic. Being in the South, I couldn't help but grow up with country music, but as I got older the modern stuff began to turn into Garth Brooks-like medeocrity dressed up in loud clothes, and I found more substance in the entire body of rock music (from the Sun Studio days to English punk rock). I never thought I'd like country music...until I realized that the older stuff, like Cash and Waylon and Willie, that was the good stuff. The rebels of country music weren't pre-packaged pretty boys who strutted around singing other people's words with the emotion of a too-good-for-my-pants primadonna. These were men who grew up during the Depression, who sang about the hard times, the heartbreak, the loss, the depravity of life.
So Johnny Cash and his peers keep me from hating country music entirely, and this (as well as the Oh Brother soundtrack) have found a welcome place in my record collection. RIP Johnny, you will be missed. I couldn't have picked a better record to get to honor your memory.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3 1/2 Stars: SACD Review
This is one of the all-time classic live albums. No question about it!
Sound quality is noticeably better than the standard CD. Read more
Sound quality is noticeably better than the standard CD. Read more
Published 4 months ago by D.C. Hanoy
Great Deal
Amazom Prime does it again.
I could not pass up this deal on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
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I could not pass up this deal on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
Shopping From Home Does Not Get Any Better Than This. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M.A.FLICK
I'M IN LOVE AGAIN
Fell in love with the man in black in 1956!!@! Nothing has changed! Hard to pick a favorite, but A Boy Named Sue, and One Piece At A Time are right up there!!!
Published 7 months ago by Mamacat
Deep down the river
Johnny Cash is a voice from along time ago for me, a voice I heard and enjoyed for the first time in North Carolina in the late 60s, yes after Woodstock that occupied my musical... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jacques COULARDEAU
Essential for any Johnny Cash fan
Amazing! Knowing the story behind the recording of this album makes the music that much more enjoyable. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Spunky Crankypants
Fun album
It is a really good Cash album that shows some of his fun side which studio albums cannot catch. Great to listen to highly recommend.
Published 11 months ago by Cole Schaffner
JOE MILLER
THIS IS ONE OF JOHNNY CASH'S BEST ALBUMNS I REALY ENJOY ALL THE SONGS AND TO HEAR HIM TALK. GOD TRULY BLESSED THIS MAN WITH TALENT AND THE BURDEN OF WEAKNESS BUT GAVE HIM JUNE TO... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Joseph A. Miller
"The culture of a thousand years is shattered with the clanging of the...
I just finished listening to this old vinyl record for the upteenth time.I never tire of it and from glancing at the reviews many others feel the same. Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Guild
At Folsom Prison
As you may gather by now, I am an avid fan of Johnny Cash and June Carter. May their souls rest in peace.
Published 17 months ago by Stanley G. Baker
from 1968 and is still great!
My dad had this album on record waaaaaaay back. Sure brings back memories to hear such cash classics like "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Orange Blossom Special" and his classic redention... Read more
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