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Seventy Years Ago, Johnny Cash Recorded 'Folsom Prison Blues' and Became a Folk Hero for the Ignored and Downtrodden

On July 30, 1955, a relatively unknown Johnny Cash stepped up to the microphone at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio, accompanied by the Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass), to ...
American Songwriter

“Far and Above Anything I Had Ever Had”: Johnny Cash Recalls Most Surprising Thing About Playing Prison Concerts

Whether as an inmate or his brief string of prison concerts, country legend Johnny Cash was very familiar with the U.S. penal system throughout his decades-long career. The third track Cash ever ...
ABC News

Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison and 4 Other Cool Jailhouse Tours

Visit the former homes of famous criminals such as Al Capone. In this file photo, Johnny Cash poses outside Folsom Prison the day he recorded his live album "At Folsom Prison" Jan. 13, 1968, in Folsom ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1955, Johnny Cash Recorded a Song That Would Bring Him Chart Success and Legal Issues Decades Later

On this day (July 30) in 1955, Johnny Cash entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded the original rendition of “Folsom Prison Blues.” He would later release the song as a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Seventy Years Ago, Johnny Cash Recorded ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ and Became a Folk Hero for the Ignored and Downtrodden

A man of the people, the artist put his money where his mouth was by visiting prisons around the country and performing the song Raj Tawney - Freelance writer Johnny Cash chats with inmates and guests ...