“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” How iconic is that opening? While with the US Air Force in Germany in the early 1950’s, the Man In Black saw a movie called “Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison” and wrote this song. The studio version was released in 1955; this take was recorded live at Folsom before...wait for it...a captive audience! BA-DOMP-BOMP! But if he shot a man in Reno (Nevada) how’d he land in a California prison? This soon became Cash’s eighth #1 country hit. The clip has about 90 seconds of silence at the end - sorry. BTW this is the first song yours truly ever learned to play on guitar. Look where it got me.
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