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Johnny Cash 12/05/69
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
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Set I
Big River
I Still Miss Someone
Five Feet High And Rising
Pickin' Time
Remember The Alamo
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
Wreck Of The Old '97
Long Black Veil
Wall
Send A Picture Of Mother
Folsom Prison Blues
Blue Suede Shoes
Flowers On The Wall
Wildwood Flower
Worried Man Blues
Boy Named Sue
Cocaine Blues
Jesus Was A Carpenter
Ballad Of Ira Hayes
As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
Sing A Travelin' Song
He Turned The Water Into Wine
Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
Daddy Sang Bass
Medley
Suppertime
Set II
 
Set III
 
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gary k. (5/5) cdr / 1 A A View  
Jordan Jacobs (5/3) CD / 0 View   SBD
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Andrew Murawa (5/5) cd / 1 View  
LowMach (5/5) CDR / 1 View  
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David (4/5) cdr / 1 View  
CelticDave (4/0) CDR / 1 A+ View  
Jeff Hyman (3/5) cdr / 1 A View  
bill sherwood (3/0) CDR / 1 A View  
Liz45716 (3/0) / 1 View  
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fxdjr (3/0) / 1 View   sbd
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August (2/5) cd-r / 1 View  
Notes: Not released until 2002, all 26 of these songs -- adding up to a generous 77 minutes -- were recorded at Cash's successful show at Madison Square Garden in New York on December 5, 1969. Two best-selling live late-'60s Cash albums, At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin, have long been available, and it will be pretty difficult for this to dislodge those in prominence among those scouting for live material in the Cash catalog. Still, it's a good document of Cash as he reached the apex of his mainstream popularity. Also, its setting in a large, popular venue by itself guaranteed that the ambience would be somewhat different than it would be on the two aforementioned live albums, both recorded in prisons. While Cash has a full band (including Carl Perkins on electric guitar and his longtime associate Marshall Grant on bass), the sound, to its credit, remains spare. The sound is not amazingly top-of-the-line, but it's pretty good, and the repertoire is extremely varied, taking in oldies like "Big River," "I Still Miss Someone," "Long Black Veil," and "Folsom Prison"; his then-recent smashes "Boy Named Sue" and "Daddy Sang Bass"; the Americana and Native American advocacy of songs like "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Remember the Alamo"; the spiritual "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord"; and Ed McCurdy's anti-war folk revival tune "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream." There are also guest star turns for Carl Perkins (who does "Blue Suede Shoes", the Statler Brothers (who do their hit "Flowers on the Wall", and the Carter Family, whose two songs are actually vivacious highlights of the disc, and a good change of pace from Cash's customary low chug. Between-song raps on the Vietnam War, prison, and other topics testify to Cash's ability to reach out to all stripes of his constituency, though the finale medley (and the bits near the end announcing the renewal of his TV show and explaining pregnant June Carter's absence) are a tad showbizzy. - Richie Unterberger
Daedalus (2/0) cdr / 1 View  
Alex Bushe (1/5) CD-R / 1 View   SBD
chris johnson (1/5) cdr / 1 View  
Notes: date should be 2-5-69? 26 tracks 77:09 official release not to be traded?
Michael Brownlie (1/5) cdr / 1 View  
Brad Hatch (0/5) cdr / 1 A+ A+ View   SBD
Kenny Babb (0/0) CDR / 1 View  
Linda (0/0) / 0 View  
Mark (0/0) / 1 View