Reviewing The Situation / Folsom Prison
Posted at 5:12pm on Thursday, April 20th, 2006A very quick one this time. Since going self employed my music consumption has gone through the roof. I’m working on my own most of the time and that means I can listen to whatever the hell I like as loud as I like. It also means that my taste is getting more catholic, and my curiousity often gets the better of me.
Two albums I could never have imagined owning a year ago are Sandie Shaw’s Reviewing The Situation and Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison. The first sounds hideously kitsch while the second is, well, country…
Both are true, but ‘Reviewing the Situation’ is a masterpiece of English psychedelic pop (her version of Led Zep’s Your Time Is Gonna Come is worth the price of the album alone) while ‘At Folsom Prison’ is one of the most powerful live albums I’ve ever heard and makes you realise exactly how close to the edge Johnny Cash really was, country or not. If you fancy a wander into the unexpected both are worth a try…
