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Major Nikon

(36,915 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2013, 08:08 PM Mar 2013

Johnny Cash performs at Folsom Prison, color picture

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Johnny Cash performs at Folsom Prison, color picture (Original Post) Major Nikon Mar 2013 OP

Great Pic! mokawanis Mar 2013 #1

Awesome. MadrasT Mar 2013 #2

Wow. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #3

Correct me if I`m wrong but... opiate69 Mar 2013 #4

Cash was inspired to write the song, Folsom Prison Blues after seeing a movie about the prison Major Nikon Mar 2013 #5

Johnny Cash was the real deal. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #6

mokawanis

(4,472 posts)

1. Great Pic!

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 08:21 PM

Mar 2013

I love that he came out there without a bunch of props and just played and sang. Must have been quite a show.

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)

2. Awesome.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 08:58 PM

Mar 2013

I love Johnny Cash and I love that album especially.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

3. Wow.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 09:43 PM

Mar 2013

Whole lot of history in that pic.

opiate69

(10,129 posts)

4. Correct me if I`m wrong but...

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 10:45 PM

Mar 2013

Wasn`t Merle Haggard in Folsom at this time? I could have sworn I had heard this show was instrumental in his pursuing a music career... Very damned cool picture.

edit: Just went and checked.. I was half right.. Haggard was in San Quentin but this album influenced him to join the prison band there.

Major Nikon

(36,915 posts)

5. Cash was inspired to write the song, Folsom Prison Blues after seeing a movie about the prison

Reply to opiate69 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 03:06 AM

Mar 2013

I think his drug use and brushes with the law probably influenced his decision to play at the prison itself. He understood that men in prisons are souls that society has thrown away.

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

6. Johnny Cash was the real deal.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 11:14 AM

Mar 2013

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