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Johnny Cash
At Osteraker Prison
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. I Walk the Line [Live][#][*][Instrumental] - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny [1]
2. A Boy Names Sue [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Silverstein, S.
3. Sunday Morning Coming Down [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, K.
4. Österåker (San Quentin) [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Haggard, M.
5. Me and Bobby McGee [Live] - Johnny Cash, Foster, F.
6. Orleans Parish Prison [Live] - Johnny Cash, Feller, Dick
7. Jacob Green [Live] - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R.
8. Life of a Prisoner [Live] - Johnny Cash, Wilkerson, Jimmy Le
9. The Prisoners Song [Live] - Johnny Cash, Massey, Guy
10. Folsom Prison Blues [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R.
11. City Jail [Live] - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R.
12. Help Me Make It Through the Night [Live] - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, K.
13. That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine [Live] - Johnny Cash, Autry, G.
14. The Invertebraes (Poem) - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny [1]
15. Lookin' Back in Anger [Live] - Johnny Cash, Sanders, Harlan
16. I Saw a Man [Live] - Johnny Cash, Smith, Arthur
17. High Heel Sneakers [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Higginbatham, R.
18. Blue Suede Shoes [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Perkins, Carl
19. Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash,
20. Wreck of the Old '97 [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Blake N.
21. I Promise You [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R.
22. Nobody Cared [Live] - Johnny Cash, Cash, June Carter
23. San Quentin [Live][#][*] - Johnny Cash, Haggard, M.
24. Folsom Prison Blues [Live][#][*][Instrumental] - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R.

CD Details

All Artists: Johnny Cash
Title: At Osteraker Prison
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Columbia Europe
Release Date: 3/25/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Pop, Rock
Style: Classic Country
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 886972352428

Synopsis

Album Description

2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of this live album, recorded in October of '72 at the Osteraker Prison in Sweden. The original album's 12 tracks are joined by 12 previously unreleased cuts from the same show, making this an exciting release for fans, old and new. Also features expanded liner notes and previously unpublished photos. Johnny Cash was a passionate man but the Country star was particularly interested with the downtrodden. Prisoners. Though playing shows in prisons was not unusual to Johnny (San Quentin, Folsom State Prison), he had never performed at a prison outside the U.S.A. He opened with 'A Boy Named Sue' for a fully-seated auditorium and for the next hour plus, continued with some of his biggest hits and fan. favorites. Sony/BMG. 2008.

CD Reviews

An under-appreciated classic

A. Christy | 03/07/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"På Österåker is deserving of recognition as one of Johnny Cash's great live performances, along with At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin. This Swedish prison concert, recorded in 1972, features a robust, lively Cash singing classics and some unfamiliar numbers, backed by an expanded band, including a piano, the ever-present Tennessee Three, and Carl Perkins. Tracks such as "Orleans Paris Prison," and "City Jail" offer a more upbeat take on the prisoner's perspective, complaining of the injustice of prisons and police officers in a devil-may-care style, delivered with a wink. På Österåker also features some more sombre tracks, written by incarcerated men, such as "The Life of a Prisoner" and "The Prisoner's Song," the latter of which was made famous by Vernon Dalhart, a proto-country influence on Johnny Cash's career. On the whole, the album is fantastic - Cash's voice is in top form, the band sounds great, and the audience is responsive (although the language barrier is occasionally evident). This album falls somewhere between the two most famous prison concerts - it is not as much of a Cash-driven performance as Folsom, nor is it an all-out spectacle of the entire Johnny Cash Show as was San Quentin. June Carter is notably absent, and the only other performer to solo is Carl Perkins, who is probably the most lackluster member of Cash' entourage. Nevertheless, it's an excellent album to have, and it holds its own when compared to Johnny's other major concerts."