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Johnny Cash: "Live at San Quentin" Video

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Created: 12/11/2006
Video description: After nearly four decades, their full-length, unedited hour-and-a-half concert is now officially available over-the-counter, as Johnny Cash At San Quentin: Legacy Edition, a deluxe three-disc display book box set package (a la the recent Bruce Springsteen Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition) arrives in stores November 14th on Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony Bmg Music Entertainment. The complete 31-track concert, the longest Johnny Cash live performance on record containing 13 previously un-issued tracks, four of them featuring Johnny will be complemented by Johnny Cash In San Quentin. This one-hour DVD documentary film, produced by Englands Granada TV, chronicled the event with numerous performances as well as graphic one-on-one interviews with prison guards and inmates discussing their experiences behind bars.

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