Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306814536 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Neat Little Book on the Forging of a Master Recording" according to David Southworth. This short book, probably less than 100 pages if you take out pictures and account for unused page space, is the recounting of Johnny Cash's 1968 recording of "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison," the album that catapulted Cash into superstardom and highlighted for a generat. "Prison drama ." according to Ronald Scheer. For Johnny Cash fans, this book tells the back-story for the making of his Folsom Prison album in 1968, complete with a large selection of photos taken during rehearsals and performance. Cash, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers made up the entire program that day (. Fantastic slice of Cash's life I'm disappointed more often than not at the rock bios that flood the market when a performer dies. Not only are they inaccurate and full of rumor, but they often spend too much time dwelling on mundane childhood details ("then, at age 6, he moved to grandma's house").T
The concert and the live album, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, propelled him to worldwide superstardom. Scrupulously researched, rich with the author's unprecedented access to Folsom Prison's and Columbia Records' archives, illustrated with more than 100 photos, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison shows how Johnny Cash forever became a champion of the downtrodden, as well as one of the more enduring forces in American music.. He reached new audiences, ignited tremendous growth in the country music industry, and connected with fans in a way no other artist has before or since.Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a riveting account of that day, what led to it, and what came after. On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash (1932-2003) took the stage at Folsom Prison in Folsom, California
. The myth-making studio tricks, it seems, were superfluous. 100+ photos not seen by PW. Actually, that reaction was added post-production, writes Streissguth: "What the record buyers heard after Cash uttered the bloody line was pure image-making. In reality, the crowd had remained enthralled by the first glimpse and words of the black circuit rider before them,…saving their clamorous gusts exclusively for its conclusion." In this enlightening if slightly disjointed and occasionally hyperventilating look at Cash's most famous album, Streissguth examines not only the concert's genesis and the subsequent revitalization of Cash's career, but also Folsom's difficult history, Columbia Records' reluctance about the project, and the role of the folk movement and late-'60s underground press in moving Cash's public image beyond the hillbilly clichés often plastered on country artists. Most compellingly, it presents a