Crucible of Cash's powers

Although hoarse on several tracks, and the presence of a

Awesome

I only learned about this cd through the film- what a find. It is so electric and incredible. I highly recommend.

An All Time Essential

The movie Walked the Line put this album back in the charts. Proving once again how timeless and essential this record is. Folsom Prison found Cash at the height of his career and, other than the film suggests, at the height of his misery. June Carter just threatened to walk out on him, although Cash was shaken by this threat he still needed his pills to get through this concert. It took the next year to clean up is his act. By the time Cash did his second prison album for Columbia, San Quentin, he was finally walking the line.