At San Quentin (2000) Album Review

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Music critics combined give At San Quentin a score of 4.0000 out of 4

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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. Read more about At San Quentin on PopMatters

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. Read more about At San Quentin on Entertainment Weekly

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. Read more about At San Quentin on All Music Guide

Rolling Stone

Johnny Cash remembers the forgotten men. They love him. Singing inside a prison to men whose spirits are being destroyed by our mindless penal system is Johnny Cash's kind of revolution. Music becomes spirituality in the context of the prison. Music is inherently destructive of everything penology stands for. Music affirms. Music liberates. Read more about At San Quentin on Rolling Stone

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The Austin Chronicle

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
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