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Album Title: At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
Why I Bought It: We had this album when I was in my early teens, so I decided to get a copy for myself.
What I Like (Unusual): "25 Minutes to Go". What's the line from Samuel Johnson? "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Twenty-five minutes is another story altogether.
What I Like (Sad): "Green, Green Grass of Home". The last line.... Honorable mention: "Folsom Prison Blues".
What I Like (Fun): "Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog". This is a hard category to make a choice in: "Jackson", "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart", "Joe Bean" - there are half a dozen songs with this kind of black (and often crude) humor.
Overall: I don't like this album quite as much as my other Johnny Cash album, but it's not bad. It's interesting comparing some of the songs he did live here to the studio versions. Also interesting: "Cocaine Blues", which to my ear seems to be a cruder version of the Kingston Trio's "Bad Man's Blunder" - or, more likely, it's the other way around.
Why I Bought It: We had this album when I was in my early teens, so I decided to get a copy for myself.
What I Like (Unusual): "25 Minutes to Go". What's the line from Samuel Johnson? "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Twenty-five minutes is another story altogether.
What I Like (Sad): "Green, Green Grass of Home". The last line.... Honorable mention: "Folsom Prison Blues".
What I Like (Fun): "Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog". This is a hard category to make a choice in: "Jackson", "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart", "Joe Bean" - there are half a dozen songs with this kind of black (and often crude) humor.
Overall: I don't like this album quite as much as my other Johnny Cash album, but it's not bad. It's interesting comparing some of the songs he did live here to the studio versions. Also interesting: "Cocaine Blues", which to my ear seems to be a cruder version of the Kingston Trio's "Bad Man's Blunder" - or, more likely, it's the other way around.
