Johnny Cash cd's

There are remastered versions of "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison" and "Johnny Cash At San Quentin" available on CD.

Lush:

"Live at Folsom Prison" and "Live at San Quentin" are
Johnny Cash's most famous live recordings and have been recently
remastered. The sound quality is OK, but not of reference quality. The
performances are excellent, so the OK sound quality is neither a distraction
or a negative. "A Boy Named Sue" is on the San Quentin album.
The Folsom Prison album was also released on SACD. Both recordings are
from the 1969 time frame, when Johnny recorded for Columbia Records.

There are some other live recordings. "At Madison Square
Garden" is another great performance/OK sounding recording from
1969. "Live from Austin, Texas" will be released in two weeks (on
November 1st). There are also some Louisiana Hayride recordings out there,
but I stay away from those in general, as I have yet to hear a Hayride reording
of any artist that was listenable.

Regards, Rich

"American IV: The Man Comes Around" is not live, but an interesting CD. I heard it when I was auditioning a pair of Harbeth Super HL-5's down at Jeff's in Bloomington, Indiana.

This CD was produced in Johnny's home by a producer who had always wanted to produce one of his albums. Johnny was dying and the producer actually set everything up in Johnny's living room for him and recorded the CD.

As far as story telling, Johnny knew that he was about to die, and you can tell it in his voice and the songs that he chose to record. It's worth giving a listen to.

The last recordings of Cash are available on quality vinyl, too. I picked up the one with "Wayfaring Stranger", "don't back down", and "Bridge Over Troubled water". sounds very good. I found mine at the Analogue Room in San jose, CA

Although they are not live recordings (they are acoustic actually) I would recommend the entire American series. Sonically excellent material and as Krell man says above, tells his story through the songs he chose to cover.