Johnny Cash – “At Folsom Prison” MoFi

Description

Mastered on MoFi’s Mastering System. Cash plays with arresting immediacy, spaciousness, and directness.Johnny Cash already knew his way around Folsom Prison when he and his band stepped inside the institution’s forbidding walls on the morning of January 13, 1968 to record At Folsom Prison.

Mastered at MoFi’s California studio and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket. MoFi’s pressing of Folsom Prison veritably places you in the cafeteria with the hootin’ and hollerin’ prisoners with which Cash felt a mutual chemistry, sympathy, and spirit. A through-line to the no-frills rawness that helps make this landmark record among the most genuine documents ever committed to tape, this audiophile reissue presents what transpired that winter day with a fullness, directness, spaciousness, and dynamic absent prior editions.