Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison - 180 Gram/45RPM/Individually Numbered - 2XLP

The 1968 Album on Which Johnny Cash Became a Legend: At Folsom Prison Among the Most Important and Potent Statements of the 20th Century
Mastered on MoFi’s Mastering System: Mobile Fidelity Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Arresting Immediacy, Spaciousness, and Directness
1/4” / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
Johnny Cash already knew his way around Folsom Prison when he and his band stepped inside the institution’s forbidding walls on the morning of January 13, 1968 to record At Folsom Prison. He’d played there two years prior. But this time was different. 

Cash took the stage that day for two shows amid a darkening sociopolitical atmosphere and a raging war in Vietnam, as well as the knowledge his career and health hung on by a thread. The Arkansas native shared many of the long odds and abject failures of the inmates for which he performed. The songs he chose, and the conviction with which he delivered them, say as much. The point at which Cash transformed from a country star into a legendary artist, and a bold statement about the American prison state and its commitment to rehabilitation, the triple-platinum At Folsom Prison remains one the most important, potent, and fabled records of the 20th century. 

Mastered by engineer Krieg Wunderlich (assisted by Shawn R. Britton) on MoFi’s renowned mastering system at its California studio and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set of At Folsom Prison veritably places you in the cafeteria with the hootin’ and hollerin’ prisoners with which Cash felt a mutual chemistry, sympathy, and spirit. A through-line to the no-frills rawness that helps make this landmark record among the most genuine documents ever committed to tape, this audiophile reissue presents what transpired that winter day with a fullness, directness, spaciousness, and dynamic absent prior editions.

A1        Folsom Prison Blues
A2        Dark As The Dungeon
A3        I Still Miss Someone
A4        Cocaine Blues
B1        25 Minutes To Go
B2        Orange Blossom Special
B3        The Long Black Veil
C1        Send A Picture Of Mother
C2        The Wall
C3        Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
C4        Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
C5        Jackson
D1        Give My Love To Rose
D2        I Got Stripes
D3        Green, Green Grass Of Home
D4        Greystone Chapel