Sometimes from within the musical world the cosmos comes together in just such a way, at just such a time that it produces something truly special. In this case, two historic characters, Johnny Cash and Owsley “Bear” Stanley collide with Haight-Ashbury’s famously historic venue, The Carousel, in one of the most historic times in music history, 1968.
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Aidin Vaziri June 24, 2021Updated: June 25, 2021, 5:07 pm
Johnny Cash Photo: Associated Press / 1969
A never-heard Johnny Cash live album from 1968 recorded by longtime Grateful Dead associate Owsley “Bear” Stanley in San Francisco is set for release on Sept. 24, the late country icon’s label announced on Thursday, June 24.
Cash’s “At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968” was recorded at a venue operated by members of the Dead and Jefferson Airplane days before the release of his best-selling live album, “At Folsom Prison,” and six months before the arrival of its storied follow-up “At San Quentin.” The forthcoming release serves as another potent document of Cash’s imperial phase, featuring a setlist that drew from his jailhouse favorites like “I Walk the Line,” “Long Black Veil” and “Ring of Fire,” alongside a pair of Bob Dylan covers (“Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” and Cash’s earliest known recording of “One Too Many Mor
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