Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - AudioSoundMusic
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - AudioSoundMusic
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - AudioSoundMusic
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - AudioSoundMusic

Johnny Cash - At San Quentin

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Johnny Cash (voc, g)  [click here to see more vinyl featuring Johnny Cash]

June Carter Cash, Carter Family (voc); Bob Wootton (el-g); Marshall Grant (b); W.S. Holland (dr)

Written by Johnny Cash (A2, A3, A5, B1, B2, B5), Bob Dylan (A1), B. Johnson (A2), N. Blake (A2), J. Sebastian (A4), S. Silverstein (B3), T. Dorsey (B4)

 

1 LP, standard sleeve

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33 RPM

Size : 12'’

Stereo

Live

Record Press : Pallas

Label : Speakers Corner

Original Label : Columbia

Recording: 24 February 1969 live at San Quentin State Prison, USA, by Neil Wilburn and Bob Breault

Production: Bob Johnston

Originally released in 1969

Reissued in 2008

 

Tracks :

Side A :

  1. Wanted Man
  2. Wreck Of The Old 97
  3. I Walk The Line
  4. Darling Companion
  5. Starkville City Jail

Side B :

  1. San Quentin
  2. San Quentin
  3. A Boy Named Sue
  4. (There will be) Peace in The Valley
  5. Folsom Prison Blues

 

Awards:

1000 Recordings you must hear before you die - Ranked 142

 

Reviews :

« To put the performance on Johnny Cash at San Quentin in a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash's key partner in the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven months before this set was recorded in February 1969. In addition to that, Cash was nearing the peak of his popularity -- his 1968 live album, At Folsom Prison, was a smash success -- but he was nearly at his wildest in his personal life, which surely spilled over into his performance. All of this sets the stage for Johnny Cash at San Quentin, a nominal sequel to At Folsom Prison that surpasses its predecessor and captures Cash at his rawest and wildest. Part of this is due to how he feeds off of his captive audience, playing to the prisoners and seeming like one of them, but it's also due to the shifting dynamic within the band. Without Perkins, Cash isn't tied to the percolating two-step that defined his music to that point. Sure, it's still there, but it has a different feel coming from a different guitarist, and Cash sounds unhinged as he careens through his jailhouse ballads, old hits, and rockabilly-styled ravers, and even covers the Lovin' Spoonful ("Darlin' Companion"). No other Johnny Cash record sounds as wild as this. He sounds like an outlaw and renegade here, which is what gives it power -- listen to "A Boy Named Sue," a Shel Silverstein composition that could have been too cute by half, but is rescued by the wild-eyed, committed performance by Cash, where it sounds like he really was set on murdering that son of a bitch who named him Sue. He sounds that way throughout the record, and while most of the best moments did make it to the original 1969 album, the 2000 Columbia/Legacy release eclipses it by presenting nine previously unreleased bonus tracks, doubling the album's length, and presenting such insanely wild numbers as "Big River" as well as sweeter selections like "Daddy Sang Bass." Now, that's the only way to get the record, and that's how it should be, because this extra material makes a legendary album all the greater -- in fact, it helps make a case that this is the best Johnny Cash album ever cut. » AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Johnny Cash was a country legend even during his lifetime, although, or perhaps because, he was very different from the numerous country singers with chequered shirts. When performing he chose to wear black as a symbol of solidarity with the oppressed and those who had no rights. His chosen outlaw image was just as convincing as the train-like boom-tiddy-boom sound of his rhythm group who lent their typical sound to many of his 500 songs.

At the very zenith of his career, Cash (who himself had committed a few minor offenses) had the idea of singing and playing for the bad guys behind the prison walls for nothing. Initially his suggestion to market the live recording was rejected, but finally his record company decided to release the album "At Folsom Prison". Fired by the success of his jailhouse recording, Columbia Records released "At San Quentin" shortly afterwards. The recording, in which Cash and his combo were frenetically applauded more or less at the end of each verse, exceeded all expectations. Today it is still considered by Cash fans to be the best live recording by the 'man in black'.

Ratings :

Allmusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs 4,34 / 5  ,  Rate Your Music : 4,13 / 5

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