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1.StopFolsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash 02:42
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2.StopBusted [#][*] – Johnny Cash 01:24
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3.StopDark as the Dungeon – Johnny Cash 03:04
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4.StopI Still Miss Someone – Johnny Cash 01:37
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5.Stop****** Blues – Johnny Cash 03:01
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6.Stop25 Minutes to Go – Johnny Cash 03:31
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7.StopOrange Blossom Special – Johnny Cash 03:00
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8.StopThe Long Black Veil – Johnny Cash 03:57
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9.StopSend a Picture of Mother – Johnny Cash 02:10
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10.StopThe Wall – Johnny Cash 01:36
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11.StopDirty Old Egg Sucking Dog – Johnny Cash 01:30
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12.StopFlushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart – Johnny Cash 02:17
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13.StopJoe Bean [#][*] – Johnny Cash 02:25
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14.StopJackson – June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash 03:12
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15.StopGive My Love to Rose – Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash 02:40
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16.StopI Got Stripes – Johnny Cash 01:57
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17.StopThe Legend of John Henry's Hammer [#][*] – Johnny Cash 07:08
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18.StopGreen, Green Grass of Home – Johnny Cash 02:29
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19.StopGreystone Chapel – Johnny Cash 06:02
Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash's legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison. The ideal blend of mythmaking and gritty reality, At Folsom Prison is the moment when Cash turned into the towering Man in Black, a haunted troubadour singing songs of crime, conflicted conscience, and jail. Surely, this dark outlaw stance wasn't a contrivance but it was an exaggeration, with Cash creating this image by tailoring his set list to his audience of prisoners, filling up the set with tales of murder and imprisonment -- a bid for common ground with the convicts, but also a sly way to suggest that maybe Cash really did shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Given the cloud of death that hangs over the songs on At Folsom Prison, there's a temptation to think of it as a gothic, gloomy affair or perhaps a repository of rage, but what's striking about Cash's performance is that he never romanticizes either the crime or the criminals: if anything, he underplays the seriousness with his matter-of-fact ballad delivery or how he throws out wry jokes. Cash is relating to the prisoners and he's entertaining them too, singing "****** Blues" like a ****** on the run, turning a death sentence into literal gallows humor on "25 Minutes to Go," playing "I Got Stripes" as if it were a badge of pride. Never before had his music seemed so vigorous as it does here, nor had he tied together his humor, gravity, and spirituality in one record. In every sense, it was a breakthrough, but more than that, At Folsom Prison is the quintessential Johnny Cash album, the place where his legend burns bright and eternal. [This Expanded Edition of At Folsom Prison added three bonus tracks to the songs included in the original 16-track LP.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
- Genre: Country, Rock
- Category Country-Pop, Traditional Country, Progressive Country, Rock & Roll
- Label: SONY
- Artist: Cash Johnny [1]
- Additional Artist: Johnny Cash (Vocals ), June Carter Cash (Performer ), June Carter (Vocals ), Carter Family (Vocals ), The Statler Brothers (Vocals ), June Carter Cash (Vocals )
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