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Looking back, Jimmy Breslin spits at the business that made him. Excepting Millionaire Jock Whitney, who gave him a big play in the now departed New York Herald Tribune, Breslin has only scorn for publishers. "I worked for Newhouse, Scripps-Howard and Hearst-the Sing Sing, Leavenworth and Folsom of American journalism," he says. "People who are working for Newhouse shouldn't have the Guild as their bargaining agent. They should have the Mafia. And they should get a Pulitzer prize for malnutrition...
...huge cafeteria of California's Folsom Prison, a baritone lament ech oes over a shuffling country beat...
This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Pris on. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop al bums of the year. Country Singer Cash, a top concert attraction at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as well as Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look...
...Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years of trying, finally convinced Columbia Records that one of his prison visits would make a successful on-location recording. He was right. In the four months since it was released it has sold more than 300,000. Perhaps more significantly: it has sold far beyond the usual boundaries of the country market. This is not entirely new for Cash. In his dozen years as a top recording performer, he has broken out of the country category with nationwide pop hits several times before (I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire...
JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...