Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (Numbered 180G 45Rpm Vinyl 2LP) - (Vinyl Record)

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The 1968 album that made Johnny Cash a music legend!

180-gram double LP, 45 RPM

1/4" / 15 ips analog master 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 on MoFi's renowned mastering system at its California studio and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45 RPM 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.

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