Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash’s legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison. The ideal blend of mythmaking and gritty reality, At Folsom Prison is the moment when Cash turned into the towering Man in Black, a haunted troubadour singing songs of crime, conflicted conscience, and jail.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)
Wikipedia:
| Single by Johnny Cash | |
|---|---|
| B-side | “So Doggone Lonesome“ |
| Released | December 15, 1955 April 1968 (re-recording) |
| Format | 7″ single |
| Recorded | July 30, 1955, Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Genre | Rockabilly, country blues, rock and roll |
| Length | 2:50 |
| Label | Sun |
| Songwriter | Johnny Cash |
| Producer | Sam Phillips |
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