Johnny Cash
Keswick Theater
Glenside PA
Sept 11 1994

82:00

1 Folsom Prison Blues
2 Get Rhyhtm
3 Sunday Morning Coming Down
4 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
5 A Cowboy�s Prayer
6 Ring of Fire
7 I Walk the Line
8 I Still Miss Someone
9 Orange Blossom Special
10 Drive On
11 Beast in Me
12 Tennessee Stud
13 Bird on a Wire
14 Flesh and Blood
15 Down There by the Train
16 Redemption
17 Big River
18 Jackson (w/June Carter Cash)
19 If I Were A Carpenter (w/June Carter Cash)
20 Far Side Banks of Jordan (w/June Carter Cash)
21 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (w/June Carter Cash)
22 A Boy Named Sue
23 Guess Things Happen That Way
24 The Next Time I'm In Town
25 outro

Master Audience: Peter Wroblewski
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As if he could be anyone else. Dressed in black with a features that resemble something on Mount Rushmore, Cash tore into "Folsom Prison Blues" at the Keswick Theater in Glenside Sunday night, performing as if he still has something to prove.

Despite having sold more than 50 million albums over his almost 40-year career, the 62-year-old Cash, country music's first renegade, is still on the road, still honing his craft. Sunday night's show was one of only eight stops on his current tour in support of his new disc, "American Recordings."

Backed by a trio that included longtime drummer W.S. Holland, who played on Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," Cash did a blistering set that included seven songs from "American Recordings" -- "The Beast In Me," "Tennessee Stud," "Bird On a Wire," "Drive On," "Redemption" and Cowboy's Prayer" -- and hard-hitting versions of his hits "Ring Of Fire," "Get Rhythm," "I Walk The Line," "Orange Blossom Special" and Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue."

The audience was rowdy and restless and ready for whatever Cash had to throw at them. There wasn't a steel guitar in sight as Cash sang of sin and redemption for an hour and a half.

The show bogged down only when June Carter Cash came out on stage for the customary duet songs she sings with her husband -- "Jackson", "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "If I Were a Carpenter." The somewhat traditional fare seemed out of place at a show where the emphasis seemed to be on rock.

The show was sponsored by Philadelphia alternative rock station WDRE-FM and it attracted an audience of twentysomethings who had never heard Cash and longtime fans who had.

The 1,500-seat Keswick is a terrific place to catch a show. A former movie house, this space is intimate, so intimate in fact, that when someone hollered out for "Dirty Old Egg Stealin' Dog," Cash obliged.