MoeFOH's Album of the Week... Week #5

[MoeFOH]

MoeFOH's Album of the Week 🎶

Same as the movie thread, each week we're going to spotlight an album... be it a classic, new release, hidden gem, or outright turd... and open it for discussion: i.e. post up your favourite tracks, clips, lyrics, experiences if you saw live, etc... or dive deeper and give us a critique on why you think it's great, overrated, or a complete train wreck... And finally score it for us...  

All contributors go into a monthly prize draw for a 3-cigar sampler! 

PM me with suggestions if there's an album you want to nominate for next week's discussion. 

 

Week #5: Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison

Suggestion from @Boxer31 

While I'm a fan of Johnny Cash, I'm nowhere near top tier fanatic status. I've heard tracks from this album but have never owned it or listened in full. I do know it was responsible for getting his career back on track in a big way but little else, so I'll defer to Wikipedia for the intro... "At Folsom Prison is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records on May 6, 1968. After his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash had been interested in recording a performance at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash's material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed by June Carter, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in California on January 13, 1968. The album consists of 15 songs from the first show and two from the second."

Who's a fan? Where does this rank in the Cash catalogue for you?

Thoughts, memories, experiences, favourite tracks...? 

Post em up!

Score it out of 10!

[MoeFOH]

 

[Paladin865]

The concert itself inspired an inmate  become a country singer in his own right, that singer is no other than Merle Haggard

[Ford2112]

It's a fun album . Johnny had a big heart and brought in something special to those guys. I rate it an 8.

[traveller]

Great Album, some interesting info is he walked and talked with the inmates. And unfortunately there is very little visual evidence, and no video at all of this performance