Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” was originally written in 1953. Cash famously recorded the track at Memphis’ Sun Studio just two years later. However, it wasn’t until 1968 that the song became a ...
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 ...
On this day (July 30) in 1955, Johnny Cash stepped into the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee to record “Folsom Prison Blues” for the first time. The song would go on to be a major hit for ...
The larger-than-life recording artist performing in front of a captive audience, some on death row, was an inspired concept. And it came straight from the mind of “The Man in Black.” The “Johnny Cash ...
The historic Folsom prison evening in 1968 will be faithfully recreated in an interactive theater setting at The Pabst Theater on Friday, Jan. 19 - complete with prison guards keeping the "inmates" in ...
In 1968, Johnny Cash famously performed at one of the nation’s first maximum-security prisons, playing music for the incarcerated individuals and recording one of his most successful live albums, ...
CHEYENNE — It may not be 1968 anymore, and Johnny Cash may not be with us, but his spirit lives on in the immersive Folsom Prison Experience. On April 5, the Cheyenne Civic Center will turn into the ...