A capture of Johnny Cash's famous concert at San Quentin prison, performed on 24 February 1969. Song list: I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Orange Blossom Special, Jackson, Darlin' Companion, Will The Circle Be Broken, San Quentin, Wanted Man, A Boy Named Sue, Peace In The Valley, He Turned The Water Into Wine.
This was the second of Johnny Cash's two famous prison concerts, both of which were recorded and released as albums. The first was at Folsom Prison in 1968.
Great music, covering most of Johnny Cash's more famous tracks. Cash and his band are in fine form, with Cash every bit the showman and troubadour.
Interspersed with the songs are interviews with inmates and guards, talking about life in prison and, in the inmates' cases, the circumstances that brought them there. Quite illuminating.
The interviews do often ruin the flow of the music though, as they are often injected into the middle of a song, rather than between songs. I don't mind the interviews at all, just wish they were placed better.
