On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

Sixty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison concert and unknowingly changed the country music world.

Country singer and songwriter Johnny Cash in a fake jail in front of CBS Records making a phone call to get friends to donate to get enough money to get out of jail in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Johnny Cash had a simple explanation for legal and geographical inaccuracies in "Folsom Prison Blues", released on 1955.

In 1968, Johnny Cash played for 2000 inmates at California's Folsom State Prison. The live recording of that show became a ...

The spirit of Johnny Cash is everywhere at the prison-yard gig. Los Tigres and crew walk through the same massive security gates that Cash and his musicians did on that cloudy, winter morning. The ...

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- "Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine, I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line. Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to ...

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 ...

The historic Folsom prison evening in 1968 will be faithfully recreated in an interactive theater setting at The Pabst Theater on Friday, Jan. 19 - complete with prison guards keeping the "inmates" in ...

CHEYENNE — It may not be 1968 anymore, and Johnny Cash may not be with us, but his spirit lives on in the immersive Folsom Prison Experience. On April 5, the Cheyenne Civic Center will turn into the ...