Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues

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“Folsom Prison Blues” is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Written in 1953, it was first recorded in 1955 for his debut studio album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957), appearing as the album’s eleventh track. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.

It was one of Cash’s signature songs. Additionally, this recording was included on the compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train (1962). In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 51 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time.

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Recorded – January 13, 1968. Released – May 1968. Charted #32 in US.
Venue – Folsom State Prison.

One of his earliest songs, Cash first recorded this for Sun Records in 1956, but it was the thrilling, electric version recorded live at Folsom Prison in California on January 13, 1968 that came to define his outlaw persona. The Live From Folsom Prison album helped revitalize his career – his last Country chart-topper and Top 40 Hot 100 entry was “Understand Your Man” in 1964.

“Folsom Prison Blues” was a #1 Country hit for four weeks and generated a great deal of interest in the rebellious Johnny Cash, who made prison reform his political cause of choice and started regularly performing in jails, doing about 12 shows a year – for free – mostly in Folsom and San Quentin. Said Cash: “I don’t see anything good come out of prison. You put them in like animals and tear out the souls and guts of them, and let them out worse than they went in.”

In 1968, Cash won a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for the live version.

Personnel
Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar, harmonica
June Carter – vocal
Marshall Grant – bass guitar
W.S. Holland – drums
Carl Perkins – electric guitar, vocals on track 2.
Luther Perkins – electric guitar
The Statler Brothers (Lew DeWitt, Don Reid, Harold Reid, Phil Balsley) – vocals
Bob Johnston – producer
Bob Breault – engineer
Bill Britain – engineer
Jim Marshall – photography

Cum s-a ajuns la realizarea acestui album: Johnny Cash Cânta La Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - Live at San Quentin (Good sound quality)
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Live at San Quentin)

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