Johnny Cash - Bear's Sonic Journals, Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom April 28 5011921057085 500 Pounds was Big Sugar's

500 Pounds was Big Sugar's growth album where they began to build from their bluesy base into the raw high-powered rock for which they are adored

" opens with a strings-and-wah-wah motif from an early-'70s blaxploitation film and follows with a "Superfly" tale about a high-level drug dealer

after a false start at Startling Studios in December 1979

and a close family member suddenly passed away

"Like the majority of the songs that we write

Johnny Cash - Bear's Sonic Journals, Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom April 28 5011921057085 500 Pounds was Big Sugar'sBear's Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968, an historic and never heard live concert recorded in San Francisco by innovative sound wizard Owsley Stanley. Captured in the heart of Haight Ashbury, just days before the release of Cash's iconic At Folsom Prison album (and over six months before the arrival of the equally revered At San Quentin), At The Carousel Ballroom serves as a third essential and wholly unique live