On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.
Sixty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison concert and unknowingly changed the country music world.
In 1968, Johnny Cash played for 2000 inmates at California's Folsom State Prison. The live recording of that show 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 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 ...