7 Jul 2017

Great Live Album: Johnny Cash at San Quentin

From Afternoons, 1:42 pm on 7 July 2017

This live album was recorded at a very unusual concert venue. San Quentin State Prison, located just north of San Francisco, is the oldest jail in California and houses 4,200 prisoners. On February 24th, 1969, Johnny Cash with his band The Tennessee Three, The Carter Family and Staler Brothers visited San Quentin to film a TV special for UK's Grenada Television. They literally performed to a captive audience