JOHNNY CASH: “At Folsom Prison” 2LP

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JOHNNY CASH: “At Folsom Prison” 2LP

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records on May 6, 1968. After his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash had been interested in recording a performance at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash’s material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed by June Carter, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in California on January 13, 1968. The initial release of the album consists of fifteen songs from the first show and two from the second. But tThis is the Legacy Edition which includes all of both sets.

1. “Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry” 1:01
2. “Blue Suede Shoes” (performed by Carl Perkins) Carl Perkins 3:31
3. “This Ole House” (performed by The Statler Brothers) Stuart Hamblen 1:38
4. “Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry” 1:04
5. “Folsom Prison Blues” Johnny Cash 2:36
6. “Busted” Harlan Howard 1:24
7. “Dark as a Dungeon” Merle Travis 3:07
8. “I Still Miss Someone” J. Cash, Roy Cash Jr. 1:36
9. “Cocaine Blues” T.J. Arnall 2:49
10. “25 Minutes to Go” Shel Silverstein 2:57
11. “I’m Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail” Karl Davis, Harty Taylor 3:31
12. “Orange Blossom Special” Ervin T. Rouse 3:36
13. “The Long Black Veil” Marijohn Wilkin, Danny Dill 3:43
14. “Send a Picture of Mother” Cash 2:10
15. “The Wall” Howard 1:54
16. “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog” Jack H. Clement 1:17
17. “Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart” Clement 2:24
18. “Joe Bean” Bud Freeman, Leon Pober 2:30
19. “Jackson” (with June Carter) Billy Edd Wheeler, Jerry Leiber (as Gaby Rodgers) 3:12
20. “I Got a Woman” (with June Carter) Ray Charles, Renald Richard 4:37
21. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer” Cash, Carter 7:06
22. “June’s Poem” (performed by June Carter) 0:58
23. “Green, Green Grass of Home” Curly Putman 3:19
24. “Greystone Chapel” Glen Sherley 2:49
25. “Closing announcements” 1:42
Total length: 65:31

Disc 2 – Show Two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. “The Old Spinning Wheel” (performed by Carl Perkins) Billy Hill 1:33
2. “Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry” 1:16
3. “Matchbox” (performed by Carl Perkins) Perkins 2:41
4. “Blue Suede Shoes” (performed by Carl Perkins) Perkins 2:14
5. “You Can’t Have Your Kate and Edith, Too” (performed by The Statler Brothers) Bobby Braddock, Curly Putnam 2:23
6. “Flowers on the Wall” (performed by The Statler Brothers) Lew DeWitt 2:20
7. “How Great Thou Art” (performed by The Statler Brothers) Stuart K. Hine 3:23
8. “Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry” 2:38
9. “Folsom Prison Blues” Cash 2:40
10. “Busted” Howard 1:21
11. “Dark as a Dungeon” Travis 2:51
12. “Cocaine Blues” Arnall 2:49
13. “25 Minutes to Go” Silverstein 2:57
14. “Orange Blossom Special” Rouse 3:36
15. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer” Cash, Carter 6:52
16. “Give My Love to Rose” Cash 2:43
17. “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog” Clement 4:38
18. “Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart” Clement 3:06
19. “Joe Bean” Freeman, Pober 2:27
20. “Jackson” (with June Carter) Wheeler, Leiber (as Rodgers) 3:10
21. “Long-Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man” (with June Carter) Perkins 2:36
22. “I Got Stripes” Cash, Leadbelly “On a Monday” 1:43
23. “Green, Green Grass of Home” Putman 3:24
24. “Greystone Chapel” Sherley 3:35
25. “Greystone Chapel” Sherley 2:38
26. “Hugh Cherry Introduces Johnny’s father, Ray Cash, Associate Warden Walter E. Craven and Floyd Gressett, and closing announcements” 3:10