At Folsom Prison

📖 About this album

Live album by Johnny Cash recorded at Folsom State Prison in 1968. The inmate audience turns every song into a visceral exchange. One of the most influential live records in the history of country and American music.

📝 Our review

Johnny Cash recorded live before inmates at Folsom Prison is one of the most powerful documents in American music. The tension is real: the audience responds to songs about crime and redemption from the inside. Cash doesn't perform, or if he does, he performs so well it doesn't matter. "Folsom Prison Blues" in that specific context is something no studio can reproduce. Essential.

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