A new, uncensored DVD box set documentary of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison hit stores this week, and if you are super cool like me and love Johnny, you might want to check it out.

Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition is the 40th anniversary 2-CD and DVD box was recorded on January 13, 1968, when Cash played two shows at Folsom prison.

The box set presents the entire unvarnished 65-minute first show on disc one – expletives intact for the first time, and with seven previously unissued tracks; and the entire 75-minute second show on disc two, with 24 previously unissued tracks (out of 26!).

Make sure to check out the new documentary DVD – it features exclusive footage from inside Folsom, interviews with Merle Haggard, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, and former inmates who witnessed the concert, and unpublished photography by Jim Marshall.

Not sure if I’ll be able to swing it, but I am working on getting a copy to giveaway. No promises - but I am trying!

John Belushi, Rolling Stone magazine, August 10, 1978

[RS]

A natural beauty indeed, even at 16.

But why do I feel a little dirty just looking at these?

Oh yeah, bitches, this is a good one.

From the 1994 album Rubberneck, it’s the Toadies with Possum Kingdom.

It’s been long disputed as to what the song is referring to. Some people think vampires, other say it’s about a murder at Lake Possum Kingdom in Texas.

In 1995 Toadies lead singer Todd Lewis told RIP magazine, “It’s just a story I heard long ago; it’s just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that. They dammed up this big river up there, and it’s got all these spooky names like Hell’s Gate. It’s really cool.”

Lewis went on to say that there was a real stalker in Tyler, Texas who became a folk hero, “I was down there for Thanksgiving, and after the family got through talking about who died and who’s got cancer and all those things that families talk about, they started talking about this guy who was peeping in windows and started breaking into people’s houses. He’d go out of his way to be seen, and everyone is like armed to the teeth, and he’s like tapping on windows. The whole family was freaked out about it.”

Come to your own conclusions, but no matter what it’s about, and however dark it may be, this song is one of the greatest of all time.

This one is a classic, and totally off-the-wall.

Of course, that’s why I like it.

From the 1992 album, Happy Hour, it’s King Missile and the song you’ll never forget, Detachable Penis.

After waking up hungover and discovering his penis is missing, John S. Hall scours the town in search of his missing appendage.  Finally, he finds his penis for sale “on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven.  The man selling it wants $22 for it, but Hall is able to “talk him down to seventeen.”

A great blast from the past if you remember it, but if you don’t, you won’t soon forget it.

The Go-Gos with ‘We Got the Beat’, live in 1981!

Check out these stars as they looked 20-years ago!

Do you recognize them all?