JOHNNY CASH At Folsom Prison 1968 UK CBS ORIGINAL 1st PRESS NEAR MINT

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JOHNNY CASH At Folsom Prison 1968 UK CBS ORIGINAL 1st PRESS NEAR MINT

JOHNNY CASH
At Folsom Prison

UK CBS (S 63308) FIRST PRESSING (August 1968)
GREAT COPY IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: CBS 63308 A1 / CBS 63308 B2
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE WITH GOLD *STEREO* STICKER TO THE BACK "Sleeve produced by the Upton Printing Group"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL "PATENT APPLIED FOR" PLAIN WHITE DIE-CUT INNER SLEEVE

Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash's legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison.
The ideal blend of myth-making and gritty reality, At Folsom Prison is the moment when Cash turned into the towering Man in Black, a haunted troubadour singing songs of crime, conflicted conscience, and jail.
Surely, this dark outlaw stance wasn't a contrivance but it was an exaggeration, with Cash creating this image by tailoring his set list to his audience of prisoners, filling up the set with tales of murder and imprisonment -- a bid for common ground with the convicts, but also a sly way to suggest that maybe Cash really did shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Given the cloud of death that hangs over the songs on At Folsom Prison, there's a temptation to think of it as a gothic, gloomy affair or perhaps a repository of rage, but what's striking about Cash's performance is that he never romanticises either the crime or the criminals: if anything, he underplays the seriousness with his matter-of-fact ballad delivery or how he throws out wry jokes.
Cash is relating to the prisoners and he's entertaining them too, singing "Cocaine Blues" like a bastard on the run, turning a death sentence into literal gallows humour on "25 Minutes to Go," playing "I Got Stripes" as if it were a badge of pride.
Never before had his music seemed so vigorous as it does here, nor had he tied together his humour, gravity, and spirituality in one record.
In every sense, it was a breakthrough, but more than that, At Folsom Prison is the quintessential Johnny Cash album, the place where his legend burns bright and eternal.

Side 1:
Folsom Prison Blues
Dark As The Dungeon
I Still Miss Someone
Cocaine Blues
25 Minutes To Go
Orange Blossom Special
The Long Black Veil
Side 2:
Send A Picture Of Mother
The Wall
Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
Jackson (with June Carter)
Give My Love To Rose
I Got Stripes
Green, Green Grass Of Home
Greystone Chapel

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with just a handful of spindle traces
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new and even under bright light there is barely a wispy hairline to be seen
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with crystal clear, clean, fresh sound.
The odd one-off light tick noted on occasion but nothing really.
An incredibly atmospheric record with Cash and his band on top form.
A superb copy of this masterpiece
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The cover is clean and sharp and unworn with all spine text clear and bold.
A deep gloss to the front laminate and a remarkably clean white back

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841 (GS 7.0.16 (841))

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