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Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison
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In 1987, Johnny Cash received three multi-platinum records for previous sales of over two million copies each of Folsom Prison, San Quentin, and his collection of Greatest Hits. In 1994 his recording career revived with the release of American Recordings, the first of four Grammy award-winning collections of extremely diverse material, ranging from folk songs to his own compositions and songs by contemporary artists such as U2 and Nine Inch Nails. Over the course of his career, he received 11 Grammy awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. He received the Kennedy Center Honors, and the National Medal of the Arts.
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Johnny Cash's longtime drummer, W.S. "Fluke" Holland, will perform Sunday (Jan. 13) at Folsom State Prison in California on the 40th anniversary of the recording of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Released in the summer of 1968, the landmark album spent 122 weeks on the pop charts. Holland joined Cash's band in 1960 and continued to work with him until 1997. Other musicians who were affiliated with Cash are ... scheduled to perform at Sunday's concert, and a guest vocalist will be introduced at the show.
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[I]n 1968, Cash recorded and released his most popular album, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Recorded during a prison concert, the album spawned the number one country hit "Folsom Prison Blues," which ... crossed over into the pop charts. By the end of the year, the record had gone gold. The following year, he released a sequel, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, which had his only Top Ten pop single, "A Boy Named Sue," which peaked at number three; it also hit number one on the country charts. Cash guested on Bob Dylan's 1969 country-rock album Nashville Skyline. Dylan returned the favor by appearing on the first episode of The Johnny Cash Show, the singer's television program for ABC.
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With his second recording, "Folsom Prison Blues," Johnny Cash scored a national hit. In 1956, "I Walk the Line," was a top country hit for 44 weeks and sold over a million copies. Johnny began to appear at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the Mecca of country music. His popularity increased so rapidly that by 1957, country music publications were rating him the top artist in the field.
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This year marks four decades since Johnny Cash infamously threw down for the inmates of Folsom Prison in California, and Jonathan Holif, who was arranging a tribute concert to mark the occasion, featuring "the country singer's music and drummer W.S. 'Fluke' Holland, one of his original backup musicians," is now crying over prison officials suddenly cancelling the show thanks to petty wrangling "over filming rights, media access and security." (Well, the "security" part probably isn't so petty.) more
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Gene Beley was at the prison the day the record, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, was made. A friend had invited the young Ventura Star Free Press reporter to the concert, and Beley decided to bring along a tape recorder.
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