Johnny Cash - At San Quentin - VINYL LP

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas is a double live album by Texas singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The recording captures Van Zandt in a series of July 1973 performances in an intimate venue and there is a strong critical consensus that this recording is among the most exemplary of Van Zandt's career. In July 1973, Van Zandt performed a string of shows over five sweltering nights at the Old Quarter club owned by Rex Bell and Dale Soffar that were recorded on a portable four track by Earl Willis, the album's producer and engineer. They would eventually be released four years later by Van Zandt's previous producer and manager Kevin Eggers on his new Tomato Records tag. The liner notes describe the recording as the InchRosetta StoneInch of Texas music. One can hear Van Zandt's influences in covers by artists like Bo Diddley, Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins, and country picker Merle Travis. Van Zandt's most famous works can also be heard, such as InchIf I Needed YouInch and InchPancho and LeftyInch played to an audience not already familiar with these songs. The singer's laconic banter and corny jokes are also on full display. The album is also noted for the intimacy of the performance, with Van Zandt taking the stage alone and accompanying himself on guitar as he did thousands of times during his career. In the 2007 biography To Live's To Fly The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, John Kruth writes that Van Zandt played Inchto nearly a hundred folks per set, packed shoulder to shoulder within the club's bare brick walls. The room was so jammed that it was impossible for a waitress to wend her way through the crowd to take drink orders. People had to pass money hand over fist and wait, in hopes that a mug of cold beer would eventually find it's way back to them.Inch Van Zandt is introduced by Dale Soffar and, after apologizing for the busted air condit

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2000 album from the Country legend. AMERICAN III SOLITARY MAN was the third album in the American series and his 85th overall album. The album was notable for being Cash's highest charting (#11 Country) solo studio LP since his 1976 ONE PIECE AT a TIME, an album that reached #2 Country based on the title cut. To the present day, Cash's studio albums for the AMERICAN series have continued to sell extremely well. Album Tracks 1. I Won't Back Down 2. Solitary Man 3. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) 4. One 5. Nobody 6. I See a Darkness 7. Mercy Seat 8. Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) 9. Field of Diamonds 10. Before My Time 11. Country Trash 12. Mary of the Wild Moor 13. I'm Leavin' Now 14. Wayfaring Stranger