Johnny Cash - Frank Ervin Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 12-8-1994

I haven't posted a lot of Johnny Cash music here, because there are a zillion official albums. But, surprisingly, there are some gaps. One of the biggest, in my opinion, is that Cash's career was reborn in 1994 with the acclaimed "American Recordings" album, and all the albums for the rest of his life were strong. But there are no official live albums from that time period. Luckily, there are two excellent soundboard bootlegs from that time, one from 1994 and one from 1996. Here's the 1994 one.

The song selection is very good, in my opinion. Basically, he played a handful of songs from the all-acoustic "American Recordings" album. He played these an a couple more in solo acoustic format, mostly in the middle of the show. But a lot more of the show featured him playing the most famous songs from earlier in his career in a band format. It's about an hour and forty minutes long.

The sound quality is excellent, as good as you'd expect an official live album to be. But there was one problem. Since this came from a soundboard recording, it picked up what happened on stage perfectly well, but didn't record much crowd noise. It's strange to hear a song end to near silence. So after each song, I took what little crowd noise there was and carefully boosted it so the rise and fall in volume wouldn't be obvious. Sometimes, I had to take some crowd noise from the end of a different song and mix it in to make sure there was enough crowd response.

If you want just one Johnny Cash concert recording that's a good overview of his entire career, this is about as good as it gets. (He survived until 2003, but he only made a few guest appearances on stage after 1997.)

01 Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
02 Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash)
03 Sunday Morning Coming Down (Johnny Cash)
04 [Ghost] Riders in the Sky (Johnny Cash)
05 talk (Johnny Cash)
06 A Cowboy's Prayer (Johnny Cash)
07 Oh, Bury Me Not (Johnny Cash)
08 Big River (Johnny Cash)
09 talk (Johnny Cash)
10 I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash)
11 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)
12 Man in Black (Johnny Cash)
13 Remember the Alamo (Johnny Cash)
14 Orange Blossom Special (Johnny Cash)
15 talk (Johnny Cash)
16 Death and Hell (Johnny Cash)
17 talk (Johnny Cash)
18 Delia's Gone (Johnny Cash)
19 Bird on the Wire (Johnny Cash)
20 talk (Johnny Cash)
21 The Beast in Me (Johnny Cash)
22 Tennessee Stud (Johnny Cash)
23 talk (Johnny Cash)
24 Down There by the Train (Johnny Cash)
25 Drive On (Johnny Cash)
26 talk (Johnny Cash)
27 Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
28 talk (Johnny Cash)
29 Jackson (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
30 If I Were a Carpenter (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
31 talk (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
32 It Ain't Me, Babe (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
33 talk (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
34 Live Forever (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
35 talk (Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash)
36 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash & Rosie Carter)
37 The Next Time in Town (Johnny Cash)
38 Guess Things Happen that Way (Johnny Cash)
39 The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Johnny Cash)
40 Home of the Blues (Johnny Cash)
41 Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash)
42 A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash)
43 Peace in the Valley (Johnny Cash)

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I couldn't find a photo of Cash at the concert in question. But I found one of him played the SXSW festival in Austin Texas earlier in the year. I used that, since at least it's the same town. I tried to imitate the style of his official albums from 1994 and after with the giant "CASH" text, and no first name, on the cover.