Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Revisited

09/25/2008
. (Sony) It is one of those dates that is embedded in music history – and should be embedded in American history, if it is not already. January 13, 1968, the day that Johnny Cash and his crew – June Carter (two months before their wedding), Columbia staff producer Bob Johnston, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers, and the Tennessee Three (guitarist Luther Perkins, bassist Marshall Grant, drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland), rolled into northern California's notorious maximum security lockup and gave a performance that changed Cash's career arc and the future of popular music. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, the LP issued on Columbia Records the following May, became a cultural benchmark in the midst of the single most tumultuous year in American history since the end of World War II. It was more than a record album – it was the turning point for a generation.

Forty years later, the Cash archives in Tennessee continue to dazzle researchers with their riches. In fact, as rarely known by even the most ardent fans, and rarely mentioned in Cash writings until now – there were two Folsom shows performed and recorded that day: The first show, the bulk of which comprised the classic, familiar 16-song album; and a longer second show, the bulk of whose 26 tracks (except for two songs) were put on the shelf.

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition has been a long time coming, indeed. The revealing three-disc (2 CD+DVD) close-up of that day now presents the entire unvarnished 65-minute first show on disc one – expletives intact for the first time, and with seven previously unissued tracks; and the entire 75-minute second show on disc two, with 24 previously unissued tracks (out of 26). It's topped off with a new documentary DVD – featuring exclusive footage from inside Folsom, interviews with Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, and former inmates who witnessed the concert, and unpublished photography by Jim Marshall.

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition, the latest deluxe display-book box set entry in the Legacy Edition series will be available at all physical and digital outlets starting October 14th through Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony Bmg Music Entertainment.

Disc One – Show One:
Hugh Cherry
1. * Opening announcements
Carl Perkins
2. * Blue Suede Shoes
The Statler Brothers
3. * This Ole House
Hugh Cherry
4. * Announcements and Johnny Cash intro
Johnny Cash
5. Folsom Prison Blues
6. Busted
7. Dark As A Dungeon
8. I Still Miss Someone
9. Cocaine Blues
10. 25 Minutes To Go
11. * I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
12. Orange Blossom Special
13. The Long Black Veil
14. Send A Picture Of Mother
15. The Wall
16. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
17. Flushed >From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
18. Joe Bean
Johnny Cash with June Carter
19. Jackson
20. * I Got A Woman
Johnny Cash
21. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer
22. * June's Poem
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home
24. Greystone Chapel
25. Closing announcements

Disc One – Show One: [might be a typo on the release, perhaps Disc Two?]
Carl Perkins
1. * The Old Spinning Wheel
Hugh Cherry
2. * Opening announcements
Carl Perkins
3. * Matchbox
4. * Blue Suede Shoes
The Statler Brothers
5. * You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too
6. * Flowers On The Wall
7. * How Great Thou Art
Hugh Cherry
8. * Announcements and Johnny Cash intro
Johnny Cash
9. * Folsom Prison Blues
10. * Busted
11. * Dark As A Dungeon
12. * Cocaine Blues
13. * 25 Minutes To Go
14. * Orange Blossom Special
15. * The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer
Johnny Cash with June Carter
16. Give My Love To Rose
Johnny Cash
17. * Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
18. * Flushed >From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
19. * Joe Bean
Johnny Cash with June Carter
20. * Jackson
21. * Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
Johnny Cash
22. I Got Stripes
23. * Green, Green Grass Of Home
24. * Greystone Chapel
25. * Greystone Chapel
Hugh Cherry
26. * Introduces Johnny's father, Ray Cash and Floyd Gressett and closing
announcements

* indicates previously unissued track.

Disc Three: DVD – Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

New documentary film includes exclusive footage from behind the walls of Folsom Prison, unpublished photographs by the legendary Jim Marshall, and new interviews with Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, and former inmates who witnessed the concert.

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