On this day (July 29) in 1968, Johnny Cash was in the middle of a four-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with “Folsom Prison Blues.” He originally released the song ...

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about ...

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 ...

Johnny Cash performed live at California State Prison at Folsom on this day in history, Jan. 13, 1968. The performance featured an all-star band including June Carter Cash and Carl Perkins.

Several inmates of Folsom State Prison believed that Johnny Cash had served jail time, probably because of his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues”, whose lyrics read, “But I shot a man in Reno ...

Songs about prison and jail.On this date in 1968 Johnny Cash performed for 2,000 inmates at Folsom State Prison in California. Those performances were released as the album At Folsom Prison and ...

Johnny Cash — cigarette in hand, smoke rings puffing from his mouth — pauses at Folsom State Prison's front gates in Dan Poush's photograph.

Last night in a screening room lit by flickering candles at New York City's exclusive Norwood Club, less than 40 people attended an intimate screening of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison, the ...

Jelly Roll's set list included Johnny Cash’s "Folsom Prison Blues," which he personalized to "Oregon State Prison." (Jelly Roll/Instagram) ...