At Folsom Prison (legacy Edition)

The Sunday Age

Sunday October 26, 2008

Michael Coulter

AT FOLSOM PRISON (LEGACY EDITION)

Johnny Cash, Columbia 4/5

After four decades, there's not much new to be said about Johnny Cash's defining masterpiece. Anyone who's familiar with his music will have heard it; anyone who isn't and wants to be should buy it. A note of caution, though: this exhaustive double-CD-plus-DVD set may not be the one for newcomers to the Man in Black. What it offers is complete recordings, including announcements and support acts, of the two sets Cash played that day, and a documentary. The original release was taken almost entirely from the blistering first set. By the second performance, Cash is spent.

Key track

Folsom Prison Blues from the second set, sounding almost languorous. -- Michael Coulter

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