For the first time since his eponymous album 1969 "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" hit No. 1, Cash is haunting the top slot with his posthumous "American V: A Hundred Highways." As he earned this coveted position with the least sold units for a debut at the apex of Billboard's Top 200 albums (88,000 discs), he bested the Dixie Chicks' "Taking the Long Way." 2006 has been a banner year for now defunct Sun Records with the recrudescence of its giants Elvis the Pelvis and the Man in Black: maybe, this new Sunrise will bring back the "Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis in a return tour of the Bayou State with his Ferriday cuz Jimmy Swaggart.
Cf. http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/articles/_a/johnny-cash-tops-chart-after-37-year/20060712182509990001.
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"Johnny Cash at San Quentin" is eponymous in the same way as "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" and "B.B. King Live at Cook County Jail". I guess Jerry Lee is eponymous with the number 13 and Swaggart is eponymous with Airline Highway.
I'll tell you what I'm going to have to do: I'm going to have to go out and purchase American V is what.
See ya'll in J-Town.
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