...I'm still feeling that live music vibe and since I'm chillaxin, I've down shifted from brother Brown to the Man in Black...that's right, Johnny Cash, dude was smooth as chicken shit on a pump handle, if you think about it-- this was the show where the infamous "finger picture" was snapped by one of the camera men who were filming the performance for a BBC documentary...
...I've written about his Live at San Quentin LP for Rhino when the latest release came out last year (now I can slide a cut or two on here)...the piece begins like this: "After the groundbreaking Live At Folsom Prison stayed on the album charts for 39 weeks—becoming the Man in Black's biggest hit up to that point—Cash had the leverage to double down, giving us this sequel, originally recorded and filmed onstage back in 1969, a year and change after Folsom..." up until I heard this album, Jimmy Cliff's "Wanted Man" (which I first caught while watching The Harder They Come) was the only one I liked...here's Johnny's version which he played at San Quentin and was written by...well, listen and find out for yourself it's a tight little story..."*read the rest of that Rhino review here*":http://www.rhino.com/rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=978
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