Walk the Linemay have given a cinematic face lift to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," but liveAt San Quentinproduced the definitive, iconoclastic image of the Man in Black, his middle finger forcefully bucking the system. History, like ...more
PopMatters
Rebel Rouser Extraordinaire This should sum up the life of the late Johnny Cash: while playing before some of the meanest convicts on the planet in San Quentin, he wrote a song specifically about the horrors of that very prison. During his ...more
Entertainment Weekly
A leading contender for reissue of the year, this two-CD-plus-DVD package boasts 31 tracks, including 13 left off the 2000 reissue. Newly added Carl Perkins and Carter Family songs establish the show as the full country revue that it was. Best, ...more
All Music Guide
To put the performance onAt San Quentinin a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash's key partner inthe Tennessee Two, guitaristLuther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven months before this set was recorded in February 1969. In addition to that, Cash ...more
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