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On this day in history, January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison with all-star band
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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.
The Folsom Prison performance turned into one of the top-selling albums of the 1960s, reinvigorated Cash’s career and left a lingering imprint on American pop culture. Cash was joined on stage by June Carter Cash, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers and his touring band the Tennessee Three. "Folsom Prison Blues" is the signature tune from the performance and became Cash's first no. 1 country hit in five years. "The electrifying quality of this album is that Cash sings of men with 99-year sentences to men with 99-year sentences." "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." — Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues" Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
"The concert and its star bore into the international imagination and for various reasons never left it," Rolling Stone said in May 2018, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the live album, "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison," released four months after the show.