Since his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues,” musician Johnny Cash had an interest in performing at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967 when personnel changes at Columbia Records put a different executive in charge of producing Cash’s material.
Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. backed with June Carter, Carl Perkins, and Cash’s band, the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison on January 13, 1968. Cash opened both shows with a rendition of “Folsom Prison Blues” and the concerts contained many songs about prison, songs of despair, a few “slow ballad-type songs,” followed by two novelty songs.
The album release of At Folsom Prison was prepared in four months. Columbia initially invested little into the album or its single “Folsom Prison Blues” because of the label’s efforts to promote pop stars instead of country artists. The single charted but was edited and re-released after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The new version became a success and the album eventually reached number one on the Top Country Albums chart and number thirteen on the Billboard 200, as well as selling over 500,000 copies.
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