Johnny Cash: Live at Folsom Prison and San Quentin

 

Genre: Country

Dates: 1968,1969

The Man in Black at his most iconoclastic, delivering to inmates at two of the West Coast's most infamous penal institutions a program of greatest hits and classics selected (and sometimes, as in the case of "San Quentin" and "A Boy Named Sue," written) especially for them. One of the few live albums, too, which leaves in everything: audience noise (some of which may have given the wardens a case of the fantods), announcements, Johnny trying to clear a frog from his throat and chiding the album producer. It's often said that Cash is America; this record demonstrates why the claim is made.

Playlist:

1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Dark As The Dungeon
3. I Still Miss Someone
4. Cocaine Blues
5. 25 Minutes To Go
6. Orange Blossom Special
7. Long Black Veil, The
8. Send A Picture Of Mother
9. Wall, The
10. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
11. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
12. Jackson - (with June Carter)
13. Give My Love To Rose - (with June Carter)
14. I Got Stripes
15. Green, Green Grass Of Home
16. Greystone Chapel
17. Wanted Man 
18. Wreck Of The Old 97
19. I Walk The Line
20. Darlin' Companion
21. Starkville City Jail
22. San Quentin
23. Boy Named Sue, A
24. Peace In The Valley (There'll Be)
25. Folsom Prison Blues - (bonus track, previously unreleased)

Resources:

All Music Guide: Biography/Discography