BSPH: Gil Trythall - Folsom Prison Blues

Cover versions are often perceived as an easy way of getting through. Because of that they are rarely taken seriously. I was listening to Butthole Surfer's rendition of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" the other day and for somehow the next track was much more extreme rendition of another well-known tune.

"Folson Prison Blues" is one of the Johnny Cash' signature songs. It is a simple story of a man doing lots of bad moves and paying for it wholesome. From a musical standpoint it is straightforward country stomper stylized after train rolling - as Cash himself described it "Boom-chicka-boom".

This particular version was recorded by glorious Gil Trythall in 1970 and it is more or less the very same song just performed on a Moog Synthesizer and knee deep in Uncanny Valley and debilitatingly unsettling. It is so weird you would expect HAL-9000 and his pals performing it.