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Seventy Years Ago, Johnny Cash Recorded 'Folsom Prison Blues' and Became a Folk Hero for the Ignored and Downtrodden

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 ...
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Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison and 4 Other Cool Jailhouse Tours

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 ...