Live at Österåker

 
 

Release date: March 24, 2008


The original LP was released on Columbia Records in 1973. Now, 35 years later, Johnny Cash fans who have made the transition to a cd-player can finally experience the legendary concert from Sweden.


Johnny Cash held the concert at Österåker October 3, '72, and entertained the swedish prisoners with both song and swedish chit chat! The most famous about this concert is that Johnny actually talked swedish in between some of the songs. As a Norwegian (who has a very similar language) I sure know how to appriciate it!


The LP from '73 contains 12 songs, and none of the "hit" songs. The only single released from the album was "Orleans Parish Prison", and it did rather poorly on the charts. The cd, on the other hand, has been blessed with 12 "new" songs. And based on the reception it got in Sweden, bursting in on the top 30s, it seems like Johnny Cash fans appriciate the remaster.


Track listing:


  1. 1.I Walk the Line (Instrumental) - 1:50 *

  2. 2.A Boy Named Sue (Shel Silverstein) - 3:22 *

  3. 3.Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson) - 4:11 *

  4. 4.Österåker (San Quentin) - 2:45 *

  5. 5.Me and Bobby McGee (Fred Foster/Kris Kristofferson) - 2:57

  6. 6.Orleans Parish Prison (Dick Feller) - 3:16

  7. 7.Jacob Green (Johnny Cash) - 2:59

  8. 8.Life of a Prisoner (Larry Wilkerson) - 3:12

  9. 9.The Prisoner Song (Guy Massey) - 3:04

  10. 10.Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash) - 2:39 *

  11. 11.City Jail (Johnny Cash) - 3:59

  12. 12.Help Me Make it Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson) - 3:15

  13. 13.That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry/Jimmy Long) - 3:01

  14. 14.The Invertebraes (Johnny Cash/Craig Dillingham/A. C. Johnston) - 3:11

  15. 15.Lookin' Back in Anger (Harlan Sanders/Glen Sherley) - 2:18

  16. 16.I Saw a Man (Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith) - 3:29

  17. 17.High Heel Sneakers (Tommy Tucker) - 3:20 *

  18. 18.Blue Sued Shoes (Carl Perkins) - 3:30 *

  19. 19.Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog (Jack Clement) - 2:20 *

  20. 20.Wreck of The Ol 97 (Arranged by Johnny Cash/Bob Johnson/Norman Blake) - 1:46 *

  21. 21.I Promise You (Johnny Cash) - 2:28 *

  22. 22.Nobody Care (June Carter) - 2:00

  23. 23.San Quentin (Johnny Cash) - 1:46 *

  24. 24.Folsom Prison Blues (Instrumental) - 0:53 *


  1. * New to the CD




 

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