Danny Robins
Auteur de Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
Œuvres de Danny Robins
The Battersea Poltergeist 1 exemplaire
The Witch Farm 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- University of Bristol
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Critiques
Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny… par Danny Robins
A book about something I didn't really care about, executed badly, which I listened to because it was 1) free 2) short, so I could pad my read-books-for-year stats. That's really about it. Johnny Cash's best music was his original song Hurt (...). The parallel between musician-pretending-to-be-rural-outlaw and gangsta rappers pretending to be independent pharmaceutical distribution reps was pretty funny, though.
This was a really interesting story about a convict who was present at Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert and had written a song which was smuggled to Johnny Cash who performed it at the concert. Great story.
Not so Strange, but certainly Ironic and Tragic
Review of the Audible Studios audiobook
I haven't read "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece" by Michael Streissguth, which is an acknowledged source for this audiobook/podcast, but presumably it contains a more extensive documentation of the background and later history of the Folsom Prison recording. As a brief summary, Robins' Audible Studios recording (which was a free Audible Original for February 2019) does a good job of covering the highlights with the value-added content of interviews with still living witnesses such as Johnny Cash's drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland and retired Folsom prison guard Jim Brown. The daughter and stepson of songwriter Glen Sherley, who was a Folsom inmate at the time of the recording, are also interviewed.
The casual Johnny Cash fan will likely be at least somewhat familiar with Cash's history of prison performances through the Folsom and later San Quentin recordings and as one of the key scenes in the biopic "Walk the Line" (2005). The ironic and tragic revelations of Folsom Untold relate to Cash's performance of inmate Glen Sherley's song Greystone Chapel at the concert and his later efforts to assist Sherley in parole and rehabilitation which sadly ended in estrangement and Sherley's eventual suicide.
The other main twist is the reveal that Columbia engineers edited in the prison audience's howls of approval at the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." during the song Folsom Prison Blues for a faked frisson of cold-blooded convict reaction. The actual unedited tapes of the concert reveal total silence by the audience at that point. Apparently the major audience reaction was to Cash's handshake acknowledgement of Sherley at the end of the Greystone Chapel song performance.
https://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/johnny_cash_folsom_prison_10...
Photo of Johnny Cash performing at Folsom Prison, January 13, 1968. Photograph by Jim Marshall.
http://i.imgur.com/2xQ9XeX.jpg
Photo of Johnny Cash shaking hands with prisoner Glen Sherley, after performing the latter's song "Greystone Chapel" at Folsom Prison, January 13, 1968. Photograph by Jim Marshall.… (plus d'informations)
Review of the Audible Studios audiobook
I haven't read "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece" by Michael Streissguth, which is an acknowledged source for this audiobook/podcast, but presumably it contains a more extensive documentation of the background and later history of the Folsom Prison recording. As a brief summary, Robins' Audible Studios recording (which was a free Audible Original for February 2019) does a good job of covering the highlights with the value-added content of interviews with still living witnesses such as Johnny Cash's drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland and retired Folsom prison guard Jim Brown. The daughter and stepson of songwriter Glen Sherley, who was a Folsom inmate at the time of the recording, are also interviewed.
The casual Johnny Cash fan will likely be at least somewhat familiar with Cash's history of prison performances through the Folsom and later San Quentin recordings and as one of the key scenes in the biopic "Walk the Line" (2005). The ironic and tragic revelations of Folsom Untold relate to Cash's performance of inmate Glen Sherley's song Greystone Chapel at the concert and his later efforts to assist Sherley in parole and rehabilitation which sadly ended in estrangement and Sherley's eventual suicide.
The other main twist is the reveal that Columbia engineers edited in the prison audience's howls of approval at the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." during the song Folsom Prison Blues for a faked frisson of cold-blooded convict reaction. The actual unedited tapes of the concert reveal total silence by the audience at that point. Apparently the major audience reaction was to Cash's handshake acknowledgement of Sherley at the end of the Greystone Chapel song performance.
https://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/johnny_cash_folsom_prison_10...
Photo of Johnny Cash performing at Folsom Prison, January 13, 1968. Photograph by Jim Marshall.
http://i.imgur.com/2xQ9XeX.jpg
Photo of Johnny Cash shaking hands with prisoner Glen Sherley, after performing the latter's song "Greystone Chapel" at Folsom Prison, January 13, 1968. Photograph by Jim Marshall.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 93
- Popularité
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- Évaluation
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- 3
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