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Subject: [peeps-country-classics] NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Johnny Cash: Always in
Style
> NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Johnny Cash: Always in Style
> By: Chet Flippo
> Thursday, November 16, 2006
> (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet
> Flippo.)
>
> So, is there enough Johnny Cash reissue stuff out in the marketplace
> already, or is there room for more? In the case of the new Columbia/Legacy
> boxed set,
> Johnny Cash at San Quentin, I say there's room for more good stuff. This
> is a valuable addition to the Cash canon.
>
> The significance of the original San Quentin album has always been its
> immediacy and its gritty reality. It tapped into some of the fundamentals
> of country
> music's appeal, of sin and redemption, of violence and hope, of ultimate
> salvation and cleansing.
>
> You probably already know that Cash's two live prison albums almost didn't
> happen because his record label, Columbia, didn't think much of the notion
> of
> one its artists performing in a jailhouse. Then Cash finally prevailed in
> recording Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison in 1968, and it became a No. 1 hit.
> Nothing
> succeeds in Nashville like success, so he was able to go to San Quentin to
> record a concert in 1969. And that became an even bigger success, settling
> in
> for 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart, as opposed to
> the four weeks run that Folsom Prison enjoyed at the top of the chart. And
> it
> was also the CMA album of the year -- just as his Johnny Cash at Folsom
> Prison had captured that same award the year prior.
>
> It also yielded a hugely popular No. 1 hit, "A Boy Named Sue," which won
> Grammy awards for Cash (for best country vocal) and songwriter Shel
> Silverstein
> (for best country song).
>
> Interestingly, future country singer Merle Haggard had been a front-row
> spectator as an inmate at a Cash San Quentin concert in 1958. Cash did a
> number
> of prison concerts over the years, but the San Quentin album finally and
> fully captured the power and immediacy of what he was doing with what
> amounted
> to a prison outreach program.
>
> I don't know if this was the cleanest period of Cash's life, but he was
> incredibly primed and on form in performing at San Quentin. That riveting
> hour-and-a-half
> audio concert is finally available in its entirety on this boxed set,
> which also includes a 60-minute Granada TV documentary on the San Quentin
> concert
> itself. Remember the famous photograph of Cash aggressively flipping the
> bird at the camera? Turns out he intended that for the Granada camera
> operators,
> who Cash felt were getting a little too intrusive. At any rate, they did
> their job very well. This is a valuable document for history.
>
> There are also 13 previously-unreleased musical tracks included here,
> including Cash's medley of "Long Black Veil/Give My Love to Rose," "Orange
> Blossom
> Special," "Jackson" (performed with June Carter Cash) and "Blistered." And
> there are previously unreleased performances by rockabilly star Carl
> Perkins
> ("Blue Suede Shoes," "Restless," "The Outside Looking In"), the Carter
> Family ("The Last Thing on My Mind" and "Break My Mind"), the Statler
> Brothers ("Flowers
> on the Wall" and the Glen Campbell-penned "Less of Me").
>
> In retrospect, I think this represents the early Johnny Cash at his peak.
> San Quentin was released just as his network TV show was clicking with
> viewers,
> and he was obviously at ease with his audiences and supremely confident
> with his material.
>
> What I especially like here is what you don't see much in country
> performances anymore, which is Cash running pretty much free with whatever
> he feels like
> doing -- and feeding off the audience's energy to build on that. It's a
> reckless abandon that's still controlled within his outer boundaries, but
> it makes
> for an exhilarating ride.
>
> And Cash was always able to walk and talk with people from every strata of
> life -- including prison inmates. He leaves a good and lasting legacy.
>
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