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The Johnny Cash Show (4/21/1979)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page


Artist(s): The Johnny Cash Show w/ June Carter and the Carter Family, Jan Howard, the Tennessee Three
Date: 21 April 1979
Tickets: $6.50/$7.50/$8.50 (reserved seating)
Attendance: (unknown)
Notes: Johnny Cash’s second appearance at Wings Stadium, his third time in Kalamazoo during the 1970s. (Cash had appeared in Kalamazoo at least eight times since 1958.)
Setlist: Folsom Prison Blues ,Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down, Any Old Wind That Blows, Big River, I Still Miss Someone, Ring of Fire, Peace in the Valley, I Would Like to See You Again, One Piece at a Time, The Gambler, You Remembered Me, Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog, Riders in the Sky, I Will Rock and Roll With You, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, I Still Miss Someone, I Ride an Old Paint, Hey Porter, The Wreck of the Old ’97, The Ballad of Casey Jones, Orange Blossom Special, The Wayworn Traveller (with John Carter Cash), I Walk the Line (Parody By John Carter Cash), Far Side Banks of Jordan (with June Carter Cash), Darlin’ Companion (with June Carter Cash), It Ain’t Me, Babe (with June Carter Cash), I Will Never Marry (June Carter), Rabbit in the Log (June Carter), Jackson (with June Carter Cash), Pieces of My Life (Anita Carter), Wildwood Flower (The Carter Sisters & Jan Howard), Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, Daddy Sang Bass, Streets of Laredo, San Quentin, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Green Grass of Home, I Got Stripes, Why Me, City of New Orleans, A Thing Called Love, Man in Black

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 25 March 1979, (top right) 25 March 1979, (bottom right) 15 April 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 1 April 1979, (center) 8 April 1979, (right) 15 April 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 April 1979. Kalamazoo Public Library

 


Sources

Articles

“Third visit to Kalamazoo”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1979, page 41

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 25 March 1979, page 47

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 April 1979, page 46

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 April 1979, page 44

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 April 1979, page 43

“Pop, folk, rock and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 15 April 1979, page 41

“‘Man in black’ delights fans”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 April 1979, page 19