At Folsom Prison, one of the strongest musical statements in a cache of them by the legendary Johnny Cash, is now available on MP3 format from Amazon this month for only $5.00. (The CD is currently $5.99 and is an AutoRip, which means with the CD purchase you’ll also get a FREE MP3 download of the entire album.)

Raw, unpolished, almost aurally voyeuristic in its approach, this record definitely has a fly on the wall sense to it. Recorded live at Folsom Prison, with an audience of inmates hanging and saluting every musical move Johnny makes with robust cheers, asides, and whoops, it’s not only a classic live album, but a great record recorded in the late 1960s and shows just how masterful Cash’s presence and musical acumen was at this point, even when singing songs that are charmingly primitive in their arrangements and makeup. No matter, Cash inflates each of them with a pained, aching sense; when he sings about being scorned (“Cocaine Blues”) or waiting to be hanged at the gallows (“25 Minutes To Go”) or the almost singalong quality to some of the songs (“Folsom Prison Blues”), he puts every shred and ounce of heart, muscle, blood, sweat, tears, and especially soul into it. There’s a reason why, even though he’s been gone for over ten years now, Johnny Cash is still highly revered as the bonafide legendary Man in Black that he is, and why he’s still a blindingly supernova figure in the past, present, and future of music. At Folsom Prison is one of the key records that affirms and reaffirms just why that is.

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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-Suckin’ Dog
12. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
13. Joe Bean
14. Jackson
15. Give My Love To Rose
16. I Got Stripes
17. The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer
18. Green, Green Grass Of Home
19. Greystone Chapel

MP3 Purchases: When you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.

CD AutoRip Purchases: After you complete a purchase of an AutoRip CD, a free MP3 version of that album will be added to your Amazon Cloud Player library and will be available on your PC/Mac, Kindle Fire, Android phone, iPhone & iPod Touch, and iPad. Albums eligible for this offer are marked on Amazon.com with an AutoRip logo. If you do not yet have a Cloud Player account, you can activate one for free. Available to US customers only.