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Johnny Cash -Folsom Prison Blues 7″ [box with T-shirt]

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Limited Edition Collectors Box that includes a 45 RPM 7″ vinyl single in picture sleeve with Johnny Cash legendary prison songs recorded live and a Cash logo T-Shirt in size XL. Collectible bundle with a vinyl single and a high-quality cotton t-shirt, provided by the artist official merchandise company. All packed in a nice custom made box

Folsom Prison Blues
The remarkable accomplishment of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” is its success in eliciting sympathy for the lonely, cold-hearted prisoner who “shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.” Riding a chugga-chugga train rhythm, the song gives voice to the frustrations of a condemned man sentenced to life in prison. Recorded for Sun records, the song was in the country Top Five in 1956, though Cash had written it while in the Air Force somewhere before 1954. “Folsom Prison Blues” follows the traditional symbol of the train whistle, as Hank Williams wrote about in “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle” (1951). That song tracks a man following the siren call of the rails, finding trouble along the way, and getting sent to jail: “All alone I bear the shame/I’m a number, not a name/I heard that lonesome whistle blow” (Williams/Davis). Cash’s protagonist is already locked away, imagining life going on outside the prison walls: “I bet there’s rich folks eating in a fancy dining car/They’re probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars/But I know I had it coming, I know I can’t be free/But those people keep on moving/And that’s what tortures me.” As the audience often confuses the singer with the song, “Folsom Prison Blues” was one of the tunes that — along with his status as a musician that fell in between rockabilly, folk, and country genres — led to Cash’s reputation as a country music outlaw, the “Man in Black” who wrote about society’s dispossessed castaways. “Folsom Prison Blues” rightly takes its place among the folk/country lexicon of prison songs. As such, it has become folk/country classic, a standard with countless cover versions but the finest renditions of the “Folsom Prison Blues” remain Cash’s own live recordings from 1968’s At Folsom Prison. These highly energized, in-prison performances feature prisoners hooting in approval at that chilling line “But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

San Quentin
To put the performance on Johnny Cash at San Quentin in a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash’s key partner in the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven months before this set was recorded in February 1969. In addition to that, Cash was nearing the peak of his popularity — his 1968 live album, At Folsom Prison, was a smash success — but he was nearly at his wildest in his personal life, which surely spilled over into his performance. All of this sets the stage for Johnny Cash at San Quentin, a nominal sequel to At Folsom Prison that surpasses its predecessor and captures Cash at his rawest and wildest. Without Perkins, Cash isn’t tied to the percolating two-step that defined his music to that point. Sure, it’s still there, but it has a different feel coming from a different guitarist, and Cash sounds unhinged as he careens through this jailhouse ballad. He sounds like an outlaw and renegade here, which is what gives it power

Track listing:
1. Folsom Prison Blues-live
2. San Quentin-live

Additional information

Label

Columbia / Legacy Records

Catalogue Number

88725473307

Release Year

2013