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Title: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Country, Outlaw Country, Kingsland, Arkansas
Matrix #: CS 9639
Condition: VG
Cultural Facts:
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Scene Ecology: Cash’s prison performances grew out of his long identification with inmates, giving him unusual credibility in a country world tied to respectability.
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Personal Struggle: By the mid-1960s, Cash was deep in amphetamine addiction, crashing cars, getting arrested, and coming close to self-destruction.
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Media Narrative: This album revived his career at a moment when many saw him as unstable, turning a live prison set into a redemption story.