"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." It's one of the most recognizable song lyrics in popular music -- an always chilling moment from 'Folsom Prison Blues,' written and performed by ...

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 ...

His lyrics, which often focused on loss, ... The actual 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's iconic performance of "Folsom Prison Blues" inside the prison is on Jan. 13. More from CBS News.

For the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's “At Folsom Prison,” a Portland band is restaging the concert at prisons across the state. We go with them to Coffee Creek’s women’s facility.

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 ...

Johnny Cash recorded ‘At Folsom Prison’ in 1968. The Johnny Folsom 4 will re-create it at the Haw River Ballroom.

“Folsom Prison Blues” had been a hit song for Johnny Cash twice before he and Waylon Jennings performed it at Farm Aid in 1985. First, ...