Johnny Cash 1980-05-00 Marriott’s Great America Gurnee, Illinois

Marriott’s Great America
Gurnee, Illinois
May 1980
Radio broadcast of the first eight songs

1. WMAQ Intro
2. Folsom Prison Blues
3. A Boy Named Sue
4. Sunday Morning Coming Down
5. Ring Of Fire
6. I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal
7. Why Me
8. Band introductions
9. Song Of The Patriot
10. Earl Ball instrumental (cut)
-- end of broadcast --

An audience recording of one of Cash’s other shows at Marriott’s Great America in Gurnee, IL was shared here some time ago. We don’t have the exact date for this one. But since Cash talks about his shows here the next days, probably this one is from May 24?

The concert was broadcast live by WMAQ in Chicago - but it seems unlikely that they recorded more than these eight songs. Sometimes (as with the BBC broadcasts of the 1980 Portsmouth show and the 1981 Wembley show) the radio station would edit the recording down to a 30 minutes set with songs from various parts of the show, but this time they simply broadcast the first half an hour of the show.

Folsom Prison Blues and A Boy Named Sue suffers from some static noise, which returns towards the end of Song Of The Patriot. 

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