Now Listening
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, November 9 at Tuesday, November 09, 2004.
I've been on a big Johnny Cash bender for a while now, and I think I've discovered the peak of Johnny Cash awesomeness.
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (1968)
Live in a high security prison. When the crowd roars there is no "woo-hoo" or girl-noise - its hooting and howling and shouting from thousands of angry, imprisoned men. And isnt Johnny Cash just the thing for them. His gruff, bitter lyrics about injustice and loneliness of living the hard life have their ultimate audience here. In Folsom Prison Blues, the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to see him die" gets a frighteningly enthusiastic roar from the crowd.
I've always loved the great live recordings of Bob Dylan, and its very obvious that he got a lot of his inspiration from Johnny Cash and his band. The music skitters along in the kind of blues-country-rock style that sounds so overplayed now, but with Johnny Cash and his awesome Nashville band, it just sounds brilliant. And the obvious live atmospherics of the prison environment (complete with warden announcements over the megaphone in between songs) really give this album something extra.
Find a copy of this album if you feel like something different. Highly reccomended.
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (1968)
Live in a high security prison. When the crowd roars there is no "woo-hoo" or girl-noise - its hooting and howling and shouting from thousands of angry, imprisoned men. And isnt Johnny Cash just the thing for them. His gruff, bitter lyrics about injustice and loneliness of living the hard life have their ultimate audience here. In Folsom Prison Blues, the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to see him die" gets a frighteningly enthusiastic roar from the crowd.
I've always loved the great live recordings of Bob Dylan, and its very obvious that he got a lot of his inspiration from Johnny Cash and his band. The music skitters along in the kind of blues-country-rock style that sounds so overplayed now, but with Johnny Cash and his awesome Nashville band, it just sounds brilliant. And the obvious live atmospherics of the prison environment (complete with warden announcements over the megaphone in between songs) really give this album something extra.
Find a copy of this album if you feel like something different. Highly reccomended.
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