January 13, 1968: The Day That Changed Music History

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Johnny Cash's performance at Folsom Prison is a well-noted day in rock and roll history and forty years later, the Cash archives in Tennessee continue to dazzle fans with their riches and revelations. Did you know...

� Cash tried for six years to persuade Columbia Records to green light Folsom?
� Cash performed and recorded two shows that day?
� The Grammy-winning liner notes that Cash wrote fueled the myth that Cash had been in jail - something Cash lived with uncomfortably?
� This wasn't Cash's first performance in a prison? He played Folsom in 1966.
� Cash egged on the prisoners for the recording? "Wanna be on records? Go ahead and say something nice." The audience erupted in hoots and profanity.
� Emcee Hugh Cherry prepped the prisoners to shout and carry on as loud as they could during the show but to remain quiet until Cash hit the stage and bellowed, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"-all for the benefit of the album?
� The gleeful outbursts from the crowd were dubbed-in on the original release to follow the line in "Folsom Prison Blues" where Cash sang "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die?"
� Johnny Cash first rehearsed Glen Sherley's "Greystone Chapel" the night before the show?

On that day, as daughter Rosanne Cash sees it, Johnny Cash came into the light. "That was the hinge on which a whole door opened to something else. And also kind of quantified who he was as an artist. It was so important; I don't think you can overestimate the importance of it."

'Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition,' a two-disc, one DVD box set, will be available at all physical and digital outlets starting October 14th through Columbia/Legacy.

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