#OnThisDay in 1968, Johnny Cash gave one of his most memorable performances at Folsom Prison. The country music legend sang more than 15 of his songs including “Greystone Chapel,” which was written by an inmate. Many of Cash’s songs include references to the Bible. Do you know which ones? Watch below to find out. | Museum of the Bible

Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Written in 1953, it was first recorded and released as a single in 1955, and later included on his debut studio album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957), as the album's eleventh track. Borrowing liberally from Gordon Jenkins' 1953 song, "Crescent City Blues", the song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash conti

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues | Johnny Cash The Man The Legend

The legendary live version of "Folsom Prison Blues" - recorded at the very prison that inspired it - was released as a single on this day in 1968. It had always been a staple of Cash's live sets, as this 1971 performance in Denmark attests. Listen: https://JohnnyCash.lnk.to/FolsomPrisonBluesLiveFA!20190401 | Johnny Cash