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I SHOT A MAN IN CORLEONE How Sicily Explained Johnny Cash ...

David Kirby, in the Fall 2006 issue of Shenandoah:

I've always had trouble understanding how the Folsom audience could get away with that anarchic "Yeahhhh!" It turns out that they didn't. In Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, his note-for-note reconstruction of Cash's historical January 13, 1968 Folsom prison concert, Michael Streissguth reports that the inmates listened silently, enthralled by the look and music of the "black circuit rider" who had appeared before them, yelling clamorously only as the song ended. The version the rest of us hear was pumped up by Columbia Records sound engineers who moved audience noise around to create a moment of musical fiction as thrilling as it is specious.

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