At Folsom Prison/At San Quentin/America [Long Box]

Performer: Johnny Cash
Producer: Bob Johnston
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: The Collection includes 3 separate albums: AT FOLSOM PRISON (1968)/AT SAN QUENTIN (1969)/AMERICA: A 200 YEAR SALUTE IN STORY AND SONG (1972). Contains AT FOLSOM PRISON (1968)/AT SAN QUENTIN (1969)/AMERICA: A 200-YEAR SALUTE IN STORY & SONG(1972). Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter Cash, Carter Family, The Statler Brothers (vocals); Norman Blake, Ray Edenton (guitar); Luther Perkins, Bob Wootton, Carl Perkins (electric guitar); Red Lane (gut-string guitar); Chuck Cochran (piano); Marshall Grant (bass guitar); W.S. Holland (drums); Mark Morris (percussion). A three-CD budget-priced introduction to the work of one of America's greatest country singers, THE COLLECTION features two of Johnny Cash's prison concerts at Folsom and San Quentin, and his salute to 200 years of American history, AMERICA. On FOLSOM, Cash performs lesser-known songs, like "Send a Picture of Mother," haunting country standards like "Dark as a Dungeon," and outlaw songs like "Cocaine Blues," to a rapt audience that hangs on every word. In AT SAN QUENTIN, the material is balanced between established favorites and new material, including "Wanted Man," co-written with Bob Dylan, and the lighthearted hit "A Boy Named Sue." Cash's AMERICA is a catalogue of key events in the development of the nation, whose songs are interspersed with a running commentary by the artist in a style that's half old-time raconteur, half grass-roots educator.

Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade with both his marriage to June Carter and his own television show. In the '90s, Cash began his highly successful and acclaimed AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, reaching a new audience with an amazingly diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional tunes to alternative rock covers. With his lean, angular sound and hearty, passionate baritone, Cash forged one of the most unique styles in all of popular music, one that delved into gospel, folk, and rock, but also remained the essence of country music. Four months after his wife died, Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. And in 2005, the Oscar-nominated biopic WALK THE LINE brought Cash's music and legend to his largest audience yet.

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