Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden


Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden is a 1969 recording of a Johnny Cash concert at Madison Square Garden. It was released in 2002.

Description

The album featured Cash and other musicians and singers including W.S. Holland, Marshall Grant, Bob Wootton, the Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, Tommy Cash and the Carter Family. Absent from the show was Cash's wife June Carter Cash, who was home pregnant with their son John Carter Cash, a fact referenced during the recording.
As with most Cash shows, the genres covered ran the gamut from country music to rockabilly to even some folk rock. Similarly to the extended releases of both the San Quentin and At Folsom Prison that had been made available around the same time, Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden includes numbers performed by Perkins, the Statlers and the Carters while Johnny was offstage. During this particular show, however, Cash introduced his father Ray and also Shel Silverstein, who wrote Cash's biggest pop hit, "A Boy Named Sue". Silverstein is the subject of some good-natured ribbing by Cash as he performs an uncensored version of "A Boy Named Sue". At the time of the recording, The Johnny Cash Show was in production and a popular TV series; its weekly "Come Along and Ride This Train" segment is referenced in the introduction to "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow."

Track listing

  1. "Big River" – 2:21
  2. "I Still Miss Someone" – 1:37
  3. "Five Feet High and Rising" – 2:52
  4. "Pickin' Time" – 2:36
  5. "Remember the Alamo" – 2:48
  6. "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" – 3:04
  7. "Wreck of the Old 97" – 2:14
  8. "The Long Black Veil" – 3:01
  9. "The Wall" – 1:09
  10. "Send a Picture of Mother" – 2:36
  11. "Folsom Prison Blues" – 3:35
  12. "Blue Suede Shoes" – 3:13
  13. "Flowers on the Wall" – 2:32
  14. "Wildwood Flower" – 3:45
  15. "Worried Man Blues" – 1:40
  16. "A Boy Named Sue" – 4:25
  17. "Cocaine Blues" – 1:57
  18. "Jesus was a Carpenter" – 3:40
  19. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" – 3:11
  20. "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" – 3:50
  21. "Sing a Traveling Song" – 3:30
  22. "He Turned the Water into Wine" – 3:16
  23. "Were You There " – 4:16
  24. "Daddy Sang Bass" – 2:15
  25. "Finale Medley" – 4:45:
  26. #"Do What You Do, Do Well"
  27. #"I Walk the Line"
  28. #"Ring of Fire"
  29. #"Folsom Prison Blues"
  30. #"The Rebel - Johnny Yuma"
  31. #"Folsom Prison Blues"
  32. "Suppertime" – 2:55

    Personnel

  • Johnny Cash - vocal, guitar

    Carter Family

  • Maybelle Carter - vocals, guitar
  • Robbie Harden - vocals, guitar
  • Anita Carter - vocals, guitar
  • Helen Carter - vocals, guitar

    The Statler Brothers

  • Phil Balsley — vocals
  • Lew DeWitt — vocals
  • Don Reid — vocals
  • Harold Reid — vocals

    Backing Band

  • Carl Perkins - electric guitar
  • Marshall Grant - bass guitar
  • W.S. Holland - drums
  • Bob Wootton - electric guitar
  • Tommy Cash - PA announcer, acoustic guitar, vocals

    Additional personnel

  • Original Recording Produced by: Bob Johnston
  • Produced for Release by: Al Quaglieri
  • Mixed By: Thom Cadley at Sony Music Studios, New York
  • Assistant Engineer: John Hill
  • Edited and Mastered by: Darcy Proper at Sony Music Studios, New York
  • Legacy A&R: Steve Berkowitz
  • Project Designer: John Jackson
  • A&R Coordination: Darren Salmieru
  • Art Direction: Howard Frizson
  • Design: Roxanne Slimark

    Charts

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