New Music/CD Releases – October 14, 2008

BILL’S PICK(S) OF THE WEEK

This two CD set deluxe edition of At Folsom Prison includes the DVD Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, the first documentary film to consider Cash’s finest day. Produced by award-winning director Bestor Cram and Cash biographer Michael Streissguth, the documentary follows the country star through the gates of the dark prison to reveal a moment flush with ramifications. Featuring exclusive interviews with those who accompanied Cash at Folsom Prison, friends and family, and inmates who witnessed the show, the documentary examines Cash through the lens of January 13, 1968. New footage filmed inside Folsom Prison.

Disc: 1
1. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry (Live)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
3. This Ole House (Live)
4. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry
5. Folsom Prison Blues
6. Busted (Live)
7. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
8. I Still Miss Someone (Live)
9. Cocaine Blues (Live)
10. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
11. I’m Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Live)
12. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
13. The Long Black Veil (Live)
14. Send A Picture Of Mother (Live)
15. The Wall (Live)
16. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
17. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
18. Joe Bean (Live)
19. Jackson (Live)
20. I Got A Woman (with June Carter) (Live)
21. The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer (Live)
22. June’s Poem (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Closing Theme and announcements
Disc: 2
1. The Old Spinning Wheel (Live)
2. Opening announcements from Hugh Cherry
3. Matchbox (Live)
4. Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
5. You Can’t Have Your Kate And Edith, Too (Live)
6. Flowers On The Wall (Live)
7. How Great Thou Art (Live)
8. Announcements and Johnny Cash intro from Hugh Cherry (Live)
9. Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
10. Busted (Live)
11. Dark As A Dungeon (Live)
12. Cocaine Blues (Live)
13. 25 Minutes To Go (Live)
14. Orange Blossom Special (Live)
15. The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer (Live)
16. Give My Love To Rose (Live with June Carter)
17. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog (Live)
18. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart (Live)
19. Joe Bean (Live)
20. Jackson (Live with June Carter)
21. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man (Live)
22. I Got Stripes (Live)
23. Green, Green Grass Of Home (Live)
24. Greystone Chapel (Live)
25. Greystone Chapel (Live)
26. Hugh Cherry introduces Johnny’s father and closing announcements (Live)

Ray LaMontagne – Gossip In The Grain
1 A Falling Through
2 Gossip In The Grain
3 Henry Nearly Killed Me
4 Hey Me, Hey Mama
5 I Still Care For You
6 Let It Be Me
7 Meg White
8 Sarah
9 Winter Birds
10 You Are The Best Thing

New Music/CD Releases – October 14, 2008
Al Jarreau – Christmas
Billy Currington – Little Bit of Everything
Buena Vista Social Club – At Carnegie Hall
Coko – A Coko Christmas
Copeland – You Are My Sunshine
The Cure – 4-13 Dream
David Bowie – iSelect
Holly Golightly – Dirt Don’t Hurt
Hotel Café – Winter Songs
I’m From Barcelona – How Killed Harry Houdini
JD Souther – If the World Was You
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Keane – Perfect Symmetry
Lucinda Williams – Little Honey
Los Lonely Boys – Christmas Spirit
Mary Mary – The Sound
Nikka Costa – Pebble to a Pearl
Powderfinger – Dream Days
Queen – The Cosmos Rocks
Ray LaMontagne – Gossip In The Grain
Secret Machines – Secret Machines
Sex Pistols – Live (DVD)
Sixpence None The Richer – The Dawn of Grace
Sonic Syndicate – Love and Other Disasters
Tony Bennett – A Swinging Christmas
Yo-Yo Ma – Songs of Joy and Peace

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Cash recording to be released with new documentary

Cash recording to be released with new documentary

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An unreleased recitation by Johnny Cash will be available as part of a new documentary examining Cash’s views on America. In “I Am The Nation,” the deep-voiced singer personifies the country with references to important events and people in American history.

The recording was discovered in Cash’s personal belongings after his death. It will be released as part of “Johnny Cash’s America,” a documentary airing Oct. 23 on the Biography Channel. The companion DVD/CD package on Legacy Recordings will be available Oct. 28.

The documentary features interviews with Bob Dylan; Al Gore; Snoop Dogg; Sheryl Crow; Steve Earle; Kris Kristofferson; Loretta Lynn; Merle Haggard; U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander; Tim Robbins; Vince Gill; Cash; his sister, Joanne; and his children, John Carter Cash and Cindy Cash.

In the film, Cash, who was outspoken on social issues, discusses the political process and the two parties.

“The whole film and soundtrack are poignant for what’s going on in the political climate right now,” said Charlie Dougiello, a spokesman for the project.

Rosanne Cash Calls Out Country Clown John Rich

good for rosanne! in my opinion, these clowns, “big and rich” (uggh! give me a break) pretty much sum up everything that is wrong with music today in one act. totally talentless hacks big on flash, glitz and “style” while completely lacking any talent or substance. idiots and fools.

and for this idiot and fool to invoke and use the name of johnny cash in this manner is disgusting.

fuck you john rich. and the trained music video horse you rode in on.

Cash To Rich: Use Of Father’s Name Is ‘Appalling’
Ken Tucker, Nashville | August 19, 2008 , 8:30 PM ET

Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father’s name to further their own political agenda.

“It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined, and to try to further their own agendas by doing so,” Cash said in a statement on her Web site.

The statement was released after country star John Rich invoked the name of Johnny Cash at a recent Florida rally for presidential candidate John McCain. According to media reports, Rich told the crowd, “Somebody’s got to walk the line in the country. They’ve got to walk it unapologetically. And I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around.”

Rich then sang Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line.”

“I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals,” Rosanne Cash said in the statement, “and even I would not presume to say publicly what I ‘know’ he thought or felt. This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation.

“It is unfair and presumptuous to use him to bolster any platform,” she continued. “I would ask that my father not be co-opted in this election for either side, since he is clearly not here to defend or state his own allegiance.”

Johnny Cash ‘Folsom Prison’ Box Loaded With Unreleased Tracks

“Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison” was a ground breaking, historical piece of work for its time ( 1968 ) , cash had a hard time convincing the executives at columbia to record/release this album, it was considered to be a career risk and was not a popular concept with his label. cash eventually won and it worked, the inmates for their part had a great deal of respect for cash personally and for his music and throughout the album johnny seems to empathize with the plight of the prisoners.

on the original release, the song order was changed songs were cut, probably to make it fit on a single LP/album. The CD release from 2000 still does not contain the entire concert and added tracks from the concert that day.

in 2003, the album was ranked number 88 on rolling stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. in 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the library of congress to be added to the national recording registry. in 2006, it ranked #3 on CMT’s 40 greatest albums in country music.

apparently johnny was right and the suits at columbia were wrong. it will be great to see and hear this the way the man in black intended it to be.

Johnny Cash ‘Folsom Prison’ CD/DVD Box Loaded With Unreleased Tracks
August 12, 2008
Mitchell Peters, L.A.

A new three-disc CD/DVD box set that features unreleased material from Johnny Cash’s legendary 1968 concerts at Folsom State Prison in California will be released Oct. 14 via Columbia/Legacy.

Disc one of the forthcoming “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition” features Cash’s entire 65-minute first concert, with seven previously unreleased tracks, including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “This Ole House,” “I’m Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail,” “I Got A Woman” and “June’s Poems,” among others.

Disc two contains the entire 75-minute second show, with 24 previously unreleased songs, including duets with his wife June Carter Cash and others.

The DVD component of “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition” reveals footage from inside Folsom Prison, and contains interviews from country acts as Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash and Marty Stuart, as well as former Folsom Prison inmates who witnessed the legendary concerts. The DVD also features unpublished photographs by Jim Marshall.

Additionally, the new box set includes a 4,000-word essay by Cash biographer Michael Streissguth, who penned such books as “Johnny Cash: The Biography” and “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of the Masterpiece.” The booklet will also feature liner notes written by Cash and Steve Earle in 1999.

Originally released in 1968, “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison” peaked at No. 13 on The Billboard 200, and spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.

what’s on god’s i-pod?

in concert, linford detweiler of over the rhine, while introducing the title song from their new record “the trumpet child” often brings up the rhetorical question that he wonders “what’s on god’s i-pod?” you would think, being god and all, that he’s got a spiffy 160g that would hold a lot of music.

i think it’s a fun and interting question…

i’d guess there would be some classical; bach, beethoven, schubert, and the likes, but i have little knowledge of classical so i’ll move on.

i’m sure there would be some miles, coltrane, and mingus. the beatles would have to be there. along with the redemptive music of johnny cash and the carter family and the pain and lonliness of hank williams. there is little doubt to me that he would include the consciousness of woody guthrie & pete seeger and their more modern counterparts; dylan, marley and springsteen. the soul of marvin, aretha & ella and the blues of robert johnson, bb and muddy would also seem appropriate. i once heard the voice of tom waits described as “the sound of god clearing his throat” and can’t imagine his words, passion and humor would be skipped. i would also like to think that every once and a while, he’d like to rock it a little with the likes of the clash and maybe jam a little with the grateful dead. and of course, the soundtracks for “woodstock” and “the last waltz” would have to be among the first things he downloaded.

i’ve not even started on “current” music, but i’d have to think if i created something as beautiful as the voices of karin bergquist (over the rhine), chan marshall (cat power), margo timmins (cowboy junkies), ryan adams, patty griffin i’d sure be listening to them on a regular basis with a smile on my face and the accomplishment of a job well done.

and i’m sure i missed some obvious choices…your thoughts? drop them in the comments. i’d love to hear…

*also, this is meant to be a lighthearted music discussion, not a religious debate. so depending on your religious beliefs, feel free to answer the question as “if there is a god, what would be on his/her i-pod?”