View basket “Transcendental Youth” has been added to your basket. At Folsom Prison (2LP 180g 45rpm) Johnny Cash SKU: LMF2543 Barcode: 196588719011 73.00 £73.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Mobile Fidelity Released Date: 31st August 2024 Buying Format: 180g 2LP 45rpm Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Mastered on MoFi’s Mastering System: Mobile Fidelity Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Arresting Immediacy, Spaciousness, and Directness 1/4″ / 15 IPS analogue copy to DSD 256 to analogue console to lathe THE 1968 ALBUM ON WHICH JOHNNY CASH BECAME A LEGEND: AT FOLSOM PRISON AMONG THE MOST IMPORTANT AND POTENT STATEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY Johnny Cash already knew his way around Folsom Prison when he and his band stepped inside the institution’s forbidding walls on the morning of January 13, 1968 to record At Folsom Prison. He’d played there two years prior. But this time was different. Cash took the stage that day for two shows amid a darkening sociopolitical atmosphere and a raging war in Vietnam, as well as the knowledge his career and health hung on by a thread. The Arkansas native shared many of the long odds and abject failures of the inmates for which he performed. The songs he chose, and the conviction with which he delivered them, say as much. The point at which Cash transformed from a country star into a legendary artist, and a bold statement about the American prison state and its commitment to rehabilitation, the triple-platinum At Folsom Prison remains one the most important, potent, and fabled records of the 20th century. Mastered on MoFi’s renowned mastering system at its California studio, strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, and housed in mini-LP-style gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s SACD of At Folsom Prison veritably places you in the cafeteria with the hootin’ and hollerin’ prisoners with which Cash felt a mutual chemistry, sympathy, and spirit. A through-line to the no-frills rawness that helps make this landmark record among the most genuine documents ever committed to tape, this audiophile reissue presents what transpired that winter day with a fullness, directness, spaciousness, and dynamic absent prior versions. You can hear it echo off the walls of the room; pulse through the itchiness of the Tennessee Three’s acoustic-based boom-chick rhythms; crackle in the announcements conveyed over the intercom; ring in the comedy of the off-cuff remarks and pair of novelty tunes; sense it in palpable energy that wells up within Cash and his audience. And you can experience it like never before via Cash’s knockout singing. The bedrock foundation of all his music, the singer’s baritone resonates with profound degrees of depth, pliability, and passion that underscore how much this appearance meant to him — and the extent he was living the narratives. Indeed, every song on At Folsom Prison serves a purpose and speaks to the conditions — mental, emotional, physical, geographical, legal, social — the inmates confronted on a daily basis. Beginning with the explicit messages of the opening “Folsom Prison Blues,” Cash makes it clear he understands and shares many of their plights. Not for nothing did the myth of Cash having done hard time persist for decades once this record hit the streets. That’s how real it is, and how dedicated Cash remains to conveying every note with the same truth he invests in the impromptu comments he makes between and amid songs. Listen to the sorrow, regret, pity, and loneliness of Merle Travis’ “Dark as the Dungeon,” Cash pulling syllables til they threaten to break and inhabiting the mood of bleak phrases such as “pleasures are few” and “the sun never shines.” Witness the isolation, dejection, and sadness punctuating the walking-blues “I Still Miss Someone,” matched in gravity by a solemn reading of “The Long Black Veil” — a traditional dirge that involves murder, cheating, and deception. Cash cuts even deeper on a heartbreaking solo rendition of “Send a Picture of Mother” and plainspoken version of Harlan Howard’s “The Wall,” detailing a suicide disguised as jailbreak through cliched-jaw deliveries that softly curse the impossible situation. In chronicling temptations, mistakes, mortality, punishment, and life “inside” — for better or worse, the stories of the disenfranchised, forgotten, written-off, and unrepentant — At Folsom Prison also has a blast playing the outlaw role. Cash captures wild-eyed craziness and out-of-control mayhem on a revved-up take of “Cocaine Blues,” taking extra satisfaction in its dastardly tales by way of voice that shifts into character for the sheriff and judge. The gallows humor and racing drama of “25 Minutes to Go”; quicksilver accents and resigned acceptance of “I Got Stripes”; train-whistle blare and twangy locomotion of “Folsom Prison Blues” — all fight the law only to see the law win. Cash remains deeply committed at every moment, and inseparably connected with the tortured souls removed from the goings-on of the outside world. No wonder all but two songs here stem from the day’s first performance that saw Cash, Luther Perkins, Marshall Grant, and company give everything. As does the Man in Black’s soon-to-be-wife, June Carter. The couple’s fiery duet on “Jackson” scorches; their combination of surrender and fortitude “Give My Love to Rose” puts us in the dying protagonist’s shoes. And with the closing “Greystone Chapel,” famously penned by convict Glen Sherley, who watched it all happen under the watchful eye of guards, Cash separates the corporeal from the spiritual, relaying lessons about salvation and survival. Heady themes to which he’d return for the remainder of his illustrious career. Artist Johnny Cash Genre Americana / Country Label Mobile Fidelity Buying Options 180g 2LP 45rpm Format 180g , 2LP , 45rpm Condition New Country USA Track Listings Folsom Prison Blues Dark as the Dungeon I Still Miss Someone Cocaine Blues 25 Minutes to Go Orange Blossom Special The Long Black Veil Send a Picture of Mother The Wall Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart Jackson Give My Love to Rose I Got Stripes Green, Green Grass of Home Greystone Chapel Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Johnny Cash View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Songwriter Americana / Country | EMI | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th June 2024 £30.00 Select options Johnny Cash Songwriter £30.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: EMI Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th June 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (SACD) Americana / Country | Mobile Fidelity | SACD Released 31st August 2024 £37.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (SACD) £37.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: CMFSA2272 Formats: SACD Released Date: 31st August 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Original Sun Singles ’55-’58 Americana / Country | Sundazed | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd April 2024 £30.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Johnny Cash Original Sun Singles ’55-’58 £30.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sundazed SKU: nn283709 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Man In Black Americana / Country | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd February 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash Man In Black £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3387C Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar / Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous Americana / Country | Vinyl Passion | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd February 2024 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar / Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Vinyl Passion SKU: VPL90046 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous (Remastered 2023) Americana / Country | Virgin | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th October 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous (Remastered 2023) £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Virgin SKU: 5047808366 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Blood, Sweat And Tears Americana / Country | Sundazed | 1LP Released 7th February 2023 £16.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Johnny Cash Blood, Sweat And Tears £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sundazed SKU: nn257537 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th February 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar (Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022) Americana / Country | Sun Records | 1LP Released 2nd December 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar (Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022) £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sun Records SKU: 5047804665 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968 Americana / Country | BMG Rights Management | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th January 2022 £22.00 - 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