Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison ALBUM REVIEW
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Johnny Cash's infamous At Folsom Prison isn't just one of the legendary country artist's most shining moments, but it's easily one of the greatest live albums of all-time.
What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh?
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FAV TRACKS: FOLSOM PRISON BLUES, BUSTED, I STILL MISS SOMEONE, I GOT STRIPES, COCAINE BLUES, 25 MINUTES TO GO, THE LONG BLACK VEIL, SEND A PICTURE TO MOTHER, THE WALL, DIRTY OLD EGGSUCKIN' GOD, FLUSHED FROM THE BATHROOM OF YOUR HEART, JACKSON, G\GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME, GREYSTONE CHAPEL
LEAST FAV TRACK: I CAN'T PICK ONE, JESUS!
JOHNNY CASH - AT FOLSOM PRISON / 1968 / COLUMBIA / COUNTRY, OUTLAW COUNTRY, ROCKABILLY
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
SHOUTOUTS!
THE CASH-CARTER FAMILY
ALL OF YOU
EVERYONE WHO LIKES THIS VIDEO
THIS ALBUM IS MY DAD'S JAM
THAT SHIT IS SO CASH
05 FUCK EM
i am not really into country but johnny cash is one of those artists that just surpasses any genre-restrains if it comes to being appreciated. that man just had a way that went far above what country usually feels like to me.
Andre Martänz Johnny Cash is true country for me. Him and Marty Robbins are the few artists that are considered 'country' that I like.
Andre Martänz Oh okay, gotcha. Yeah haha absolutely! Marty Robbins is most known for his first album in 1959, with the songs El Paso and Big Iron. The whole album was just about western life, nothing complicated, but it sounds so great. Big Iron was used in Fallout: New Vegas's soundtrack, which is how most younger people know of him.
WhoaNellyJake ok after i checked the song on youtube i remember it from that game. But it defenitely is not my cup of tea. Not a bad song at all but I just soooo rarely really "feel" countrymusic. TBH the thing that really got me to Cash were the american albums (especially 4 and 5), then folsom and san diego and after that i checked out more and more stuff. Oh and of course everyone knows ring of fire
@MrBrenman21 I agree, its so overshadowed with trash like trap is right now.
@WhoaNellyJake
I agree, I dislike country music, but "At Folsom Prison" and "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" are albums that I actually love and enjoy.
"It also happens to be the most badass live album ever laid to tape." +1
Actually living in Folsom... You hear Folsom Prison Blues every time a mediocre cover band plays somewhere around here.
Damn it's probably like that for any town whose name is in the title of a major song(barring LA and NYC)
@@btonyh5878 not true, that Alicia keys Jay z song Is still being played in NY to this day
@@Enzo-si1it I just meant that NYC and LA are so ingrained in our culture that it's not as special to hear it there. I hear Empire State of Mind here in NC getting radio play, shit was just a hit in general.
greatest live album of all-time in my opinion
agreed
Vinylman95 Productions this or John Mayer’s live album. Or Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock!
Live at the Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers too bruh
Jackson Muralt they don’t compare to cash
I think Genesis-Seconds Out is, best live album of all time
I just listened to the album for the first time. You can officially call me a country fan.
+john gleason I'm the farthest thing from a country fan, but I sure as hell am a Johnny fucking Cash fan.
+Mantis Toboggan Try Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams. These guys kick so much ass, unlike most newer country artists.
willr455 I just don't want to hear goofy guitar picking and lyrics about how much people love their tractors.
+Mantis Toboggan lmao
+john gleason I'd like to imagine you made that expression on your profile picture when you finished listening to the album.
Honestly, I feel Johnny Cash perfected the live album with Live at Folsom Prison. You could tell he's actually human, he cares about what he's singing, even if, in this case, it's federal inmates that are his immediate audience, and he's not just some almost robotic voice belting the same songs over and over again for, well, cash. JR Cash gives a damn fine lineup with it, and I've always preferred this album to the studio versions of their respective songs, especially with Folsom Prison Blues, as not only do I feel Cash gave more umph and fire to this version of the song, the sounds of the crowds of inmates going wild just makes me feel like I'm actually in concert, I'm in Folsom watching this amazing, amazing man perform. I love this album to no end.
I don't really like country, but even I have to admit this album's fucking awesome.
even tho Johnny is from my state (Arkansas) I wouldn’t really class him as country
@@sambt123 He is absolutely country, what?
Please do a ten hour review of The White Album.
What.
DO IT YOU FUCKING MELON
STUPID FUCKING MELON
BITCH
I’m gonna assume you predicted the weezer album from about three years out and are asking him to review it 3 years in advance
@@legochickenguy4938 Weezer? More like Carl Wheezer
CommanderX3001 I think he means the Beatles album
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison ALBUM REVIEW
How about Definitely Maybe by Oasis? [:
Acquiex How about no?
Kandice McBane No?
Is This It-The Strokes.
Man a perfect album.
I think you should review an R.E.M. album. Possibly Life's Rich Pageant.
Was I the only one who thought "I couldn't pick one, jesus!" was a real johnny cash track? lmao.
Sounds like something he’d name a song lol
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme?
Aquemini - Outkast
Jimi Hendrix - Electric ladyland
Found an original pressing complete with dust jacket and album cover for 7$. Worth every penny.
***** Well that's basically what it sold for when it came out, back when records were the only way to listen to music.
Mister Bearpunch I found one for one dollar. Best dollar spent
It is an amazing album. I used to listen to it almost every "night" while on deployment on a submarine. The album really helps to liven up any type of confinement.
cal needs to tune his guitar
Never tell cal what to do
Cal needs to take the capo off his headstock
@@legochickenguy4938 Never tell cal what to do
Johnny Cash is one of the greatest legends ever, period!
Outkast- ATLiens
got this at a thrift store for 3 dollars
iammyownghost lucky😓
Record shop cheap bin for 71 cents 😎
GZA- Liquid Swords
Charlie Marion 👎
My grandfather actually played Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. When he talks about how he cant swear, and says, "How's that grab ya, Bob?" he's talking to my grampa :)
Unlikely considering Bob Johnston was the producer of the record, not a musician.
Hm. I did not know that. I've just taken his and my grammas word for it.
Brad Schmidt Was there any chance that your grandfather was the producer?
there might, but i highly doubt it considering he has pictures of playing with Johnny on stage.
Brad Schmidt Bob Wootton played electric guitar for Johnny Cash from 1968 til like 1997 after Luther Perkins died, if that's who you're talking about
one of your most slept on reviews tbh. it doesn't go super DEEP but it touches on basically everything that makes this an all time classic.
Worth recognizing is the live version of The Legend of John Henry's Hammer, only on the CD version, which is a massive 7-minute-long folk tale and an amazing performance.
Alex F and if that was really a random audience suggestion, that performance is even more awesome since Johnny Cash and his band didn't practice it beforehand, yet it sounds really terrific.
Alex F hear that cold steel ring!
Tearyatobitz lord what a swinger!
Most gangsta country album, facts.
I love this album to bits - it's so completely unlike any other live album out there. Apart from At San Quentin, of course, which for me is just as much a classic as At Folsom Prison.
If suggestions are actually worth making, I'd say Reign In Blood or Paranoid, because they are quite simply the best metal albums of all time that completely engross me every single time I listen to them, and metal hasn't been covered in your classics yet.
I'd also say Metal Box because there's so much fascinating experimentation and extremely intriguing and gripping lyrics, to the extent where I'd say that it's better than Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols, and is Johnny Rotten's true classic album.
I really am not a fan of country at all, or at least mainstream country today, but DANG THIS ALBUM IS SICK!
Possible Classic Reviews!!
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Strokes - Is this it
A Radiohead album
a modest mouse album
THE AVALANCHES - SINCE IVE LEFT YOU
REVIEW PAUL MCCARTNEY RAM OR ANYTHING PAUL MCCARTNEY
what about something like The Shape of Punk to Come? maybe not old enough to be a classic, but then again maybe it is
That album deserves the title. Years don't mean shit.
i love all Johnny Cash songs. every single one.
Same here, man. Same here.
Johnny is by far my favourite artist but cmon he did some real shit songs just like every musician has. Understandable considering the amount of albums he recorded
GZA- Liquid Swords, The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger, Deltron 3030, Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose, At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command, The Format - Interventions and Lullabys, Sublime - 40oz to freedom, or Weezer - The Blue Album
Spiderland
raekwon-Only built 4 cuban linx
Like many here in these comments I'm not big into country but this album hits so hard. I love the flow, from the fun bangers at the beginning like Orange Blossom Special and Cocaine Blues and then at the end there are such emotionally touching tracks like Send my Love to Rose, Green Green Grass, and Greystone Chapel.
Absolutely love this album. The attitude and atmosphere of this album make it feel like a folk-punk record. The album is a rollercoaster of emotion, from laughing to being stuck in deep sympathetic thought.
Not so fun fact: The cheers of the crowd were added in post-production. At the actual show, the crowd was asked to make as little noise as possible. Kinda ruins the magic.
That was only one cheer during the song Folsom prison blues. The rest of the cheers and crowd noise on the album are actually real.
One of your best and most in-depth reviews ever
Suggestions for hip hop classics: OB4CL, Illmatic (of course), Ready To Die, The Infamous, Bacdafucup, Death Certificate, ATLiens, We Can't Be Stopped, etc....
2:40
Lockdown?
can we get a best of cal 2013???
Review Soundtracks for the Blind
I would love an outkast album review!
theneedledrop I recommend you watch the movie Walk The Line. It is a movie about the life of Johnny Cash. He is played by Joaquin Phoenix. GREAT movie
Dumbass
have listened to this record so many times all the way through
YO, you should do a Beatles review, maybe of Revolver or around that period :)
James Roberts He should do a best to worst really.
Please review "Is This It" by The Strokes!
Jeff Buckley - Grace?
Gorillaz-Demon Days
It'll probably be classic when Anthony is 70.
If the only remnants left of Johnny Cash's legacy were the American Recordings albums he'd be a legend on those alone
Oh and I love how the crowd gets so into the music. It's a small space and you can kinda get the feeling that you're there. As opposed to large concerts with yards and yards of ants screaming "Ahhhh AHHHH AHHHH BAND IS SO COOL!" I guess I like the idea that I too am there. No jail but.. at a concert, in jail.
I would LOVE to hear you review Donuts by J Dilla... that would be interesting aha
He's already done that
Aquemini or The Low End Theory
I point At Folsom Prison out to anyone who says that hip-hop glorifies crime. I know tons of country fans who love Cash but think rap is morally bankrupt. We've always had more gritty and dark music, especially in outlaw country. Love this album.
Best album ever.
The woop that comes after he says he shot a man in reno is actually added in post. Pretty much the only thing edited in the album
That duet with Cal was beautiful.
This album was even greater when it first came out in 1968. Really top at it's time. Only competition he had at that time was Creedence Clearwater Revival With the album Green River.
I'm not a country fan, but this is easily one of the best live albums I've ever heard. Really on point review.
You serve everything in tin cups?
Review Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse
PLEASE
theneedledrop
Couple suggestions:
Blade Runner Soundtrack
Time to Burn - Is.Land (2007; Post-Hardcore/Metal)
Sleep Party People - Sleep Party People (2010; Experimental/Ambient)
Moby - Destroyed (2010; Electronica)
Apollo Brown & OC - Trophies (2012; Hip Hop)
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (2002; Post-Punk Revival)
As always, thanks for the great review !
Johnny Cash, The Wall:
As he looked at the wall
So strong and tall
I heard him softly curse
Nobody at all ever climbed that wall
"But I'm going to be the first
I'm going to be the first"
Then the warden walked by and said son don't try
I'd hate to see you fall
Because there is no doubt they'll carry you out
If you ever touch that wall
If you ever touch that wall
Goddamn. I forgot easily this album brings tears to me eyes fuck...
Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages. Please review that sometime.
For classics week you should review at least one of the following:
Daydream Nation
Doolittle
Ok Computer
Kid A
Funeral
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Straight Outta Compton
Rage Against the Machine's self-titled
Illmatic
This might be my favorite album of all time, thank you for reviewing it, Anthony!
Also do one on David Allan Coe's Greatest Hits
Hard pass
Thanks for these classic reviews! Some reviews that would be cool to see are..
Sgt. Peppers, Trout Mask Replica, Meddle, Animals,Remain in Light,The Stone Roses, illmatic, Let it be(Replacements), Moon and Antarctica, OK Computer
I've listened to Johnny Cash extensively, so that, of course, includes this.
Many of my friends are the people who say that "all country music is bad because all songs are about stupid shit like tractors and beer." Frankly, I agree. I think that country has become more of a mix of rock and pop, than actually taking from its roots.
However, whenever they say something like that, I can't help but contradict them and say something along the lines of "not all country."
For me, one of the biggest examples is "Green, Green Grass of Home." If you're familiar with the song, you know why. It's from this album, and I never heard it mentioned, so I thought I would. It's about a newly-released man who finally has a chance to go home. When he gets there, he's reminded of all the good memories from before his stay in prison.
The thing is... he was only dreaming. All of it was a trick of the brain, just a ruse. He's still in prison, still in a damned cell. The worst part is that he's awoken on the day of his execution. He won't touch the green grass of home. He'll be under it.
So when you say "All country is stupid," I strongly disagree with you.
Thank you needledrop for making the world a better place through music exploration. Music has gotten me through some tough times.
Absolutely one of my favorite albums of all time. Coca in blues and the emotional connection you can hear between Cash and the audience make this album a classic great.
great work, these reflections on classic albums really give a new found appreciation for works that I already appreciate
You have to do Black Sabbath or Master of Reality. I'd love to hear your thoughts on one of those albums.
Led Zep II, Pet Sounds, Abbey Road, DSOTM, Bridge Over Troubled Water or Bookends, Tommy.. I'd like to see you review A Wizard, A True Star, though its not really a classic album, cult album maybe
OUTLAW COUNTRYYYYY!!!!!!!
"05 FUCK EM" BASED ANTHONY!
Dark as a dungeon off of "At Folsom Prison" is probably one of the most powerful songs that Johnny Cash has ever performed. I get goosebumps every time he crescendo's toward the chorus.
+Reece Decker I hear you man.
That song is probably my favourite of his, and that performance too... phew. Plus it's a lot of fun to sing, makes you realise how big of a vocal range johnny has.
Dark Side of the Moon album request.
That album is shit.
kaisamsa go home, /mu/.
what's /mu/? TDSOTM is the worst album i've ever heard in my life.
kaisamsa
You're entitled to your opinion; You commented a Kanye West song as one of the best this year, seems like something a little bitch boy would do, just my opinion though.
buddhabassist Hahahha, i'm pretty sure that Pearl Jam album was the best of 2013, man, no need to cry about kanye.
I've tried to country, really I have. I live in a city where you can't help be exposed to it, a lot of it. From the Merle Haggards to the Brooks & Dunn. The Willie Nelson to David Allen Coe, to Garth Brooks, to Patsy Klein, the Everly Brothers, to Hank Williams...tons of the stuff.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's beneath me, rather beyond me. I don't have that capacity. Like how Cal can't see in color. ;)
Agreed! Best live album ever made!
Johnny cash is some of the only country music i like, and i like him a lot tbh
You and Cal definitely need to do a country album together!
God , I'm excited for whatever he's reviewing next, maybe some Tribe or OutKast
anything by THE SMITHS please
Oh my God, I was listening to the album when I saw this video in my feed and jumped a bit.
Anthony please review the other 96 albums
I've been mixing cocktails all night to bring in the new year. You've just served my elixir of the night. Great review. Oh, and, Turn On the Bright Lights.
I don’t like country 😎😎😎😎😎😂😂😂 but I do like Johnny cash 😎😎😎😎😎😎
Sweet review Fantano! I'd like to see your opinion on other old school country albums like The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Marshall Tucker Band, and The Outlaws. I loathe when I ask what music people like and they say the tired old answer of "Everything but country." Most modern country seems not as good but if someone has a modern country or rockabilly band they like lemme know!
Review Los Tigres del Norte At Folsom Prison
Yo is that Faust IV a behind him on the shelf? If so that’s totally rad
Excellent start to classics week!!! Drive Like Jehu - "Yank Crime"? Just planting a seed…..
Review any of the following please :) (but Slint especially)
Slint - Spiderland
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Nirvana - In Utero
Now knowing that you are a Cash fan I would be interested to hear your opinion of his album "american iv: the man comes around" being that it contains mainly covers. Care to share?
great review. greater album.
i wish next year you will review "Music Has The Right To Children", although campfire headphase is the best BoC album, just review one of them damn it.
Great album! You've mentioned this LP in the past, which turned me on to it, and it blew my mind like none of Johnny's work had previously. A truly fascinating cultural event caught on tape.
KID A!!
Hello again. I really enjoyed the album for all the reasons you mentioned, Anthony. The psychology questions this album piques is one of the more entertaining qualities to me. On that note, I thought the influence of the record producer on the inmates may have detracted from the rawness of the album.
Not asking for a video but Blue album by Weezer is a classic right?
I'm pretty sure that any Weezer album that could be considered a classic would be Pinkerton
Channel Tanoshii three years later:
"TheNeedleDrop: Weezer's Blue Album is Better Than Pinkerton"
Hey Anthony. Have you ever thought of doing a video on your listening set up? Aka Vinyl Player, Amp, Speakers ect?