Folsom Prison Blues
I think prison songs are popular because most of us are living in one little kind of prison or another, and whether we know it or not the words of ...
I think prison songs are popular because most of us are living in one little kind of prison or another, and whether we know it or not the words of a song about someone who is actually in a prison speak for a lot of us who might appear not to be, but really are. In 1953 an aspiring young musician named John Cash watched a movie called "Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison," a melodramatic 1951 film about the clash between a hardened but noble inmate and a sadistic warden at California's maximum-security Folsom Prison.