Source: Good News Network
51 years ago today, Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison, playing before 2,000 inmates in California. For 13 years, since recording his song “Folsom Prison Blues”, which was inspired by a film’s depiction of incarceration, Cash had been interested in performing behind bars.
His drug abuse problems were under control and he was looking to turn his career around, so, backed by June Carter, Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, he recorded the first of several shows inside prisons. The LP was a huge success— achieving platinum status and reaching number 15 on the national album charts. HEAR a song LIVE… (1968)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Public radio broadcasting was born in the U.S. when American inventor Lee de Forest used his new vacuum tubes to receive the transmission of a live Metropolitan Opera House…
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