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Johnny Cash: The Story of Folsom Prison

Documentary exploring the most important day in Johnny Cash's career, a concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 that touched a nerve in the American psyche.

Documentary which explores the most important day in the career of the legendary Johnny Cash.

Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a troubled time in American history.

Using the stark images of rock photographer Jim Marshall, graphic techniques, archive footage and interviews with Merle Haggard, Cash's daughter Rosanne, band members Marshall Grant and WS 'Fluke' Holland, alongside former inmates of the prison, the film documents this explosive concert, the live album that followed and a transformative moment in the lives of Cash, the inmates of Folsom Prison and the American nation in the troubled year of 1968.

1 hour

Last on

Mon 19 Jul 2010 01:55
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Music Played

  • Johnny Cash

    Folsom Prison Blues

  • Jimmie Rodgers

    In The Jailhouse Now

  • Johnny Cash

    I Got Stripes

  • Johnny Cash

    Green Green Grass of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

  • Johnny Cash

    I Was There When It Happened

  • Johnny Cash

    Hey Porter

  • Johnny Cash

    Cry, Cry, Cry

  • Gordon Jenkins

    Crescent City Blues

  • Johnny Cash

    Folsom Prison Blues

  • Johnny Cash

    25 Minutes To Go

  • Glen Sherley

    Portrait Of My Woman

  • Johnny Cash

    Greystone Chapel

  • Johnny Cash

    Give My Love To Rose

  • Johnny Cash

    I Got Stripes

  • Johnny Cash

    Big River

  • Johnny Cash

    I Walk The Line

  • Johnny Cash

    Cocaine Blues

  • Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - Jackson

  • Johnny Cash

    The Wall

  • Johnny Cash

    Greystone Chapel

  • Glen Sherley

    Measure Of A Man

  • Glen Sherley

    Looking Back In Anger

  • Johnny Cash

    Folsom Prison Blues

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