Johnny's star had begun to wane (not for the last time), but then it all came together for him. He got together with June, kicked the drugs, and recorded and released this album.
Johnny is raucous, rude and irreverent, and his crowd is loving it. The set contains enough songs about shooting those who have wronged you, and killing law-men to please his audience and possibly appeal to future gangsta rappers who gave him a listen. But, there are also songs enough about redemption and turning your life around to maybe change a few lives.
Quite cool that they have prisoner announcements coming through the PA during the recording, makes it that much more of a historical document, as well as a musical statement of where Johnny was at at the time.
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