Johnny Cash - At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert) [LIVE]

2000 (originaly 1969) 192kbps

1. Big River
2. I Still Miss Someone
3. Wreck of the Old '97 
4. I Walk the Line 
5. Darlin' Companion
6. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound 
7. Starkville City Jail
8. San Quentin 
9. San Quentin Continued
10. Wanted Man
11. Boy Named Sue
12. Peace in the Valley
13. Folsom Prison Blues
14. Ring of Fire
15. He Turned the Water into Wine
16. Daddy Sang Bass
17. Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
18. Closing Medley

Amazon.com essential recording
While Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, the 1968 album that made Cash a household word, spent only two weeks at No. 1, this 1969 follow-up topped the charts for 20 weeks. As with Folsom, the San Quentin LP had to be edited due to space limitations. Now, 31 years after the fact, the show can at last be heard in true perspective. All the original performances hold up, including the album's hit single: Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue," presented unbleeped for the first time. Equally impressive are the eight restored tracks and unexpurgated between-song patter. Cash's opening renditions of "Big River" and "I Still Miss Someone" are bracing. So are four closing songs teaming Cash with his complete performing troupe (the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers). Their gospel performances ("He Turned the Water into Wine," "The Old Account," and an early version of "Daddy Sang Bass") are electrifying, as is a concluding medley featuring everyone. Cash is presented here at his roaring, primal best. --Rich Kienzle