Koncert v Praze (In Prague – Live) explained

Koncert v Praze (In Prague – Live)
Type:Live album
Artist:Johnny Cash
Cover:JohnnyCash-KoncertVPraze.jpg
Released:October 1983
Recorded:April 11, 1978
Venue:Sportovní hala, Prague
Genre:
Label:Columbia & Supraphon
Producer:Michal Bukovič
Prev Title:The Adventures of Johnny Cash
Prev Year:1982
Next Title:Biggest Hits
Next Year:1984

Koncert v Praze (In Prague – Live) (1983) is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash.

Recorded in 1978, the album was released in 1983 and featured a bilingual (Czech-English) biography of Johnny Cash. The album was originally released by Supraphon in Czechoslovakia only; according to music historian Rich Kienzle, the album's first release beyond Europe occurred with its inclusion in the 2012 Columbia Records CD box set .[1]

A re-release on red translucent vinyl, with the original artwork, was pressed for Record Store Day in 2015.

The album is notable for devoting nearly all of Side B to railroad-related songs, including a 10-minute medley. It was also, in terms of order of first release, the final album to feature Cash's original bass player Marshall Grant, who left the group several years prior to its release, but is featured owing to this being a live recording from 1978.

The concert featured on the album is a different performance from the one released on VHS/DVD from the same tour.

Track listing

  1. "Ring of Fire"
  2. "Folsom Prison Blues"
  3. "I Still Miss Someone"
  4. "Big River"
  5. "I Ride an Old Paint" & "Streets of Laredo"
  6. "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
  7. "I Walk the Line"
  8. "Last Date" (instrumental, performed by Earl Poole Ball)
  9. "City of New Orleans"
  10. "Hey Porter" & "Wreck Of the Old '97" & "Casey Jones" & "Orange Blossom Special"
  11. "Wabash Cannonball"

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Rich Kienzle, liner notes, 2012, p. 29