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| 1. Big River |
| 2. I Still Miss Someone |
| 3. Wreck Of The Old 97 |
| 4. I Walk The Line |
| 5. Darlin' Companion |
| 6. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound |
| 7. Starkville City Jail |
| 8. San Quentin |
| 9. San Quentin |
| 10. Wanted Man |
| 11. A Boy Named Sue |
| 12. (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley |
| 13. Folsom Prison Blues |
| 14. Ring Of Fire |
| 15. He Turned The Water Into Wine |
| 16. Daddy Sang Bass |
| 17. The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago |
| 18. Closing Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel - Johnny Yuma* |
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It is also one of the best, most intense and inspired live albums I have ever heard.
"Johnny Cash At San Quentin" is one of Cash's very best records, and one of the very few to truly capture the darkness and rage that lies deep in his music. Cash's singular amalgam of musical styles combined the resignation and worldweariness of country with the bluntness of folk music and the roughness and rebelliousness of rock n' roll like no-one else seems to be able to do, and even the most traditional country clichés sound sincere and believable in the hands of the great Johnny Cash.
On "San Quentin", Johnny Cash careens through a series of ballads, spirituals, rockabilly ravers and hit singles, and the Man in Black takes full advantage of the unusual circumstances. He draws energy from the unusual audience, and creating an incredibly intense atmosphere which results in one of the most raw and stimulating performances you'll ever hear.
And Cash himself sounds wilder than ever, an outlaw an a renegade, sarcastic and acerbic, openly displaying his contempt for the prison system, and drawing wild applause for the whithering "San Quentin".
The imposing Johnny Cash imbues even a novelty song like "A Boy Named Sue" with real passion, proving beyond a doubt that true style and conviction will get you further than any amount of showmanship.
A truly superb performance.
This was a legendary album for decades and now this 2000 reissue literally doubles its length, from nine to eighteen tracks providing, as the cover proudly proclaims, the complete February 1969 concert. One of the "new" tracks is the other hit single that came off the album, "Daddy Sang Bass." But it is still totally amazing that you can take a definitive album by a major figure in modern American music and make it twice as long (imagine that being the case with any other great album from "Sgt. Pepper" to "Nevermind"; it blows your mind). There are a handful of albums that you should be checking out, if you do not already own them, to appreciate the Man in Black and his music and "At San Quentin" has to be one of the fingers you would tick off on the first hand you used. Johnny Cash, with his resonant baritone and distinctive sound, was one of the most imposing figures in country music in our lifetime and it is nice to know that when he died this past week that he was appreciated by even the most recent generation of music lovers.
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