Johnny Cash At San Quentin

TAS Recommended! Rated a 'Best Audiophile Label Recording' in the November 2009 issue of The Absolute Sound! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the September 2008 Issue of Stereophile!
Johnny Cash was a country legend even during his lifetime, although, or perhaps because, he was very different from the numerous country singers with checkered shirts. When performing he chose to wear black as a symbol of solidarity with the oppressed and those who had no rights. His chosen outlaw image was just as convincing as the train-like boom-tiddy-boom sound of his rhythm group who lent their typical sound to many of his 500 songs. At the very zenith of his career, Cash (who himself had committed a few minor offenses) had the idea of singing and playing for the bad guys behind the prison walls for nothing. Initially his suggestion to market the live recording was rejected, but finally his record company decided to release the album At Folsom Prison. Fired by the success of his jailhouse recording, Columbia Records released At San Quentin shortly afterwards. The recording, in which Cash and his combo were frequently applauded more or less at the end of each verse, exceeded all expectations. Today it is still considered by Cash fans to be the best live recording by the "man in black.'
Recording: February 24, 1969 live at San Quentin State Prison, USA, by Neil Wilburn and Bob Breault
Production: Bob Johnston
This Speakers Corner production was manufactured using analog masterband and mastering 100% purely analog.

Features:

• 180g
• Audiophile Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany

Musicians:

• Johnny Cash (voc, g)
• June Carter Cash, Carter Family (voc)
• Bob Wootton (el-g)
• Marshall Grant (b)
• W.S. Holland (dr)

Selections:

Side A
1. Wanted Man
2. Wreck Of The Old 97
3. I Walk The Line
4. Darling Companion
5. Starkville City Jail
Side B
1. San Quentin
2. San Quentin
3. A Boy Named Sue
4. (there'll be) peace in the valley
5. Folsom Prison Blues