• Features 3 unreleased tracks "Busted", "Joe Bean" & "The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer"
• New personal reflection from Johnny Cash
• Touching new insight from Steve Earle
• MANY unpublished photos from the entire day!
• 20-BIT digitally remasterd

It was a sunny cool day on January 13, 1968, when Johnny Cash performed a concert at Folsom Prison. Cash's imposing bass-baritone is in front of the bumping, "boom-chicka-boom" two-beat that was the hallmark of the Tennessee Three, led by his longtime guitarist Luther Perkins (who died that same year in a tragic fire). Also on board for the crackling set were Cash's future wife June Carter, The Statler Brothers quartet, and the legendary Carl Perkins. There had never been a recording sesson quite like the one that produced this album. Playing to 2,000 inmates--and, of course, their well-armed guards - at a notoriously tough California penitentiary, Cash tapped right into the tension in the hall. Having been through a scrape or two with the law in his younger, wilder days, he offered a number of songs that resonated with this audience. But then he broke the tension with the gallows humor of "25 Minutes To Go," the comic vignette of his "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog," and a tale of woe concerning how he got the big kiss-off ("Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart").

TRACK LISTING

1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Busted*
3. Dark As The Dungeon
4. I Still Miss Someone
5. Cocaine Blues
6. 25 Minutes To Go
7. Orange Blossom Special
8. The Long Black Veil
9. Send A Picture Of Mother
10. The Wall
11. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
12. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
13. Joe Bean*
14. Jackson (with June Carter)
15. Give My Love To Rose (with June Carter)
16. I Got Stripes
17. The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer*

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