Blog: Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream

Patients, the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum know you are well-versed in Johnny Cash’s classic Sun Records penitentiary ballad, “Folsom Prison Blues,” but today we wanted to usher in Slim Harpo’s hip shakin’ treatment of the classic cut. Recorded in 1969, a year prior to The Man in Black’s revival at Folsom Prison, Slim’s version handles Cash’s take on the big house with flawless command. You don’t get the infectious boom-chick-a-boom from the Cash treatment, but this Bob Wilson-produced reworking delivers a dose of rousing stovepipe soul; a rave-up, complete with the Bayou state bluesman’s [...]