LABEL: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
VINYL RELEASE DATE:1/14/2022
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 9/24/2021
VARIANT: YELLOW VINYL 2LP

After a tumultuous 1967 for Johnny Cash, the year 1968 was bookended by what would become his two iconic, highest-grossing albums, At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin. But now, fifty-three years later, a lost chapter has emerged to enrich and complement the story of that very good year.

Johnny Cash At the Carousel Ballroom, recorded on April 24, 1968, captures the Man in Black at the height of his charismatic powers. Confidently departing from the more formalized setlist hed been doing, we hear him in a playful and powerful dialogue with his new bride June Carter and his longtime musiciansguitarist Luther Perkins, bassist Marshall Grant and drummer W.S. Hollandconnecting with an audience more accustomed to the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

What makes the performance even more significant is that it was recorded by the innovative sound wizard Owsley Bear Stanley in a verit style that startles with clarity and dimension missing from the two more well-known releases. In 1968, it was just another entry in Bears continuing sonic journal of recorded shows, a means to keep improving his art. But thirty years later, Stanley would recognize it as one of a handful of the most significant performances hed captured.

TRACKLIST

SIDE 1
1Cocaine Blues (Live)
2Long Black Veil (Live)
3Going to Memphis (Live)
4The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Live)
5Rock Island Line (Live)
SIDE 2
1Guess Things Happen That Way (Live)
2One Too Many Mornings (Live)
3Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Live)
4Give My Love to Rose (Live)
5Green, Green Grass of Home (Live)
6Old Apache Squaw (Live)
7Lorena (Live)
SIDE 3
1Forty Shades of Green (Live)
2Bad News (Live)
3Jackson (Live) – By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
4Tall Lover Man (Live) – By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
5June Carter Medley (Live)
SIDE 4
1Long Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man (Live) – By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
2Ring of Fire (Live)
3Big River (Live)
4Don’t Take Your Guns to Town (Live)
5I Walk the Line (Live)