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At San Quentin

by Johnny Cash

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69
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2000

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1
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.6955 At San Quentin is ranked overall as 3.6955 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 4.0000 At San Quentin has an avg. critic score of 4.0000 out of 4 stars

At San Quentin Album Reviews

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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. ...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. ...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. ...more

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. ...more

Yahoo! Music

To put the performance on At San Quentin in a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash's key partner in the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven months before this set was recorded in February 1969. ...more

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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...read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle

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