W hen Johnny Cash performed “Folsom Prison Blues” at California’s Folsom State Prison on Jan. 13, 1968, the song was hardly new.. Cash wrote the tune in 1951 after seeing the film noir ...

Truth Behind Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ Revealed. Stephen L. Betts. Stephen L. Betts Published: December 12, 2008. SHARE; TWEET "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." ...

On July 20, 1968, Johnny Cash hit No. 1 on the country charts with the live version of "Folsom Prison Blues." The song is the first track on his hit At Folsom Prison album.

Johnny Cash never actually shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. But the rowdy inmates of California's Folsom State Prison didn't seem to mind, loudly cheering the country icon as he sang ...

Johnny Cash’s grandson performed for inmates at California’s Folsom Prison to mark 50 years since his grandpa’s legendary concert, RadarOnline can exclusively reveal.

Daughter Rosanne Cash, in this never-before-published interview from 2008 for the documentary film Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (Bestor Cram, dir.) reluctantly presents the wide-angle view of her ...

A locomotive backbeat and prison wall lyrics defined the career of Johnny Cash.A strong argument could be made that this sound was built first on 'Folsom Prison Blues,' the No. 2 Song on the Top ...

Spectacle Live is presenting "The Man in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash" this fall at Plymouth Memorial Hall, according to a ...

On April 22nd, 1936, Glen Travis Campbell was born in the tiny Billstown community near Delight, Arkansas. Although he began his career as a bluegrass musician, he would go on, thanks to such ...

FOLSOM (KPIX 5) -- If you've ever heard of the town of Folsom, or the state prison there, you probably have one man to thank for it – Johnny Cash. And now, a nature trail will pay tribute to the ...

Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” brought the city and prison national notoriety, and now a newly identified species of tarantula inhabiting the Folsom area bears the singer’s name.