Country singer and songwriter Johnny Cash in a fake jail in front of CBS Records making a phone call to get friends to donate to get enough money to get out of jail in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” was originally written in 1953. Cash famously recorded the track at Memphis’ Sun Studio just two years later. However, it wasn’t until 1968 that the song became a ...

A man of the people, the artist put his money where his mouth was by visiting prisons around the country and performing the song Raj Tawney - Freelance writer Johnny Cash chats with inmates and guests ...

The historic Folsom prison evening in 1968 will be faithfully recreated in an interactive theater setting at The Pabst Theater on Friday, Jan. 19 - complete with prison guards keeping the "inmates" in ...

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp organized the first annual Farm Aid in 1985. Taking place in Champaign, Illinois, the benefit for family farmers featured a star-studded lineup. B.B.

Adapted from a book by Michael Streissguth, this documentary about Cash’s 1968 live LP would fit in with Eagle Rock Entertainment’s Classic Albums series, though the singer’s relationship to prison ...

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 July 30, 1955, a relatively unknown Johnny Cash stepped up to the microphone at Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio, accompanied by the Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass), to ...