Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison Blues (Vinyl record album review)

Album name: Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison Blues

Artist name: Johnny Cash

Year: 1970

Number of discs: one

Label: Share Records

Collection: Friedman

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My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I’ve never listened to this compilation, but I’m a Johnny Cash fan and recognize a few of the songs on it.

What I expected

Country.

What it was actually like

This was great, and even though I anticipated being familiar with a lot of it, the only songs I knew well were Folsom Prison Blues and The Ways Of A Woman In Love. That one was unusual for having backing vocals, both male and female, though the entire record was in Cash’s unique and consistent style, sort of an acoustic rockabilly shuffle.

There were no bad songs at all and I would listen again any day, but if I had to pick two, Don’t Make Me Go was the most relatively boring and Down The Street To 301 was the most relatively corny.

Grade

5/5: love it