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Johnny Cash at San Quentin is the 31st overall album and second live album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, recorded live at San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969, and released on June 16 of that same year.
Live at San Quentin is a 1990 live album by blues guitarist B.B. King performed at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. [4] Track listing
At San Quentin: Legacy Edition (a/k/a Johnny Cash at San Quentin) Released: September 6, 1969 (broadcast); 1988 (VHS); November 14, 2006 (2xCD+DVD) Label: Granada Television/Vestron Video International/Columbia Music Video/Legacy Recordings; 1971 Man In Black: Live In Denmark 1971 (original title Johnny Cash i København)
"A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and made famous by Johnny Cash. Cash recorded the song live in concert on February 24, 1969, at California's San Quentin State Prison for his At San Quentin album. Cash also performed the song (with comical variations on the original performance) in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden.
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
Live at San Quentin may refer to: Live at San Quentin (B.B. King album), 1990; Live at San Quentin (Charles Manson album), 1993; See also.
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. [1] Hawkins's recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. [2] In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard. [3]
"George Jackson" is a song by Bob Dylan, written in 1971, in tribute to the Black Panther leader George Jackson, who had been shot and killed by guards at San Quentin Prison during an attempted escape on August 21, 1971. The event indirectly provoked the Attica Prison riot.