Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition
Deluxe 40th Anniversary 2-Cd+DVD Box Set Makes History with Release Of – Yes – Two Shows!
RELEASED FROM THE ARCHIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME:
• CD One: 65-minute first show -with seven previously unissued tracks
• CD Two: 75-minute second show – with 24 previously unissued tracks (of 26)
• DVD: new documentary film – with exclusive Folsom Prison footage, interviews with Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, and former inmates at concert, and unpublished photographs by Jim Marshall
Latest entry in deluxe Legacy Edition series – available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting October 14, 2008, through Columbia/Legacy
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.
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition
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 Two – Show 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.