About "Folsom Prison Blues"
"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Written in 1953, it was first recorded and released as a single in 1955, and later included on his debut studio album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1957), as the album's eleventh track. Borrowing liberally from Gordon Jenkins' 1953 song, "Crescent City Blues", the song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career. It was one of Cash's signature songs. Additionally, this recording was included on the compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train (1962). In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 51 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time.
Cash performed the song live to a crowd of inmates at Folsom State Prison in 1968 for his live album At Folsom Prison (1968), released through Columbia Records. This version became a No. 1 hit on the country music charts and reached No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same year. This version also won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards in 1969.
Top songs by Johnny Cash
- Ring Of Fire
- I Walk The Line
- San Quentin
- A Boy Named Sue
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Hurt
- 25 Minutes To Go
- Cocaine Blues
- Country Boy
- Man In Black
- Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
- Orange Blossom Special
- Highwayman
- I Still Miss Someone
- Bird On A Wire
- Green, Green Grass Of Home
- Ballad Of Ira Hayes
- Daddy Sang Bass
- City Of New Orleans
- Get Rhythm
- The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
- I Got Stripes
- Me And Bobby Mcgee
- Why Me, Lord
- Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- I Never Picked Cotton
- The One Rose
- Time Of The Preacher
- Tennessee Stud
- Hey Porter
- Born To Lose
- Solitary Man
"Folsom Prison Blues" video by Johnny Cash is property and copyright of its owners and it's embedded from Youtube.
Information about the song "Folsom Prison Blues" is automatically taken from Wikipedia. It may happen that this information does not match with "Folsom Prison Blues".
SONGSTUBE is against piracy and promotes safe and legal music downloading. Music on this site is for the sole use of educational reference and is the property of respective authors, artists and labels. If you like Johnny Cash songs on this site, please buy them on Itunes, Amazon and other online stores. All other uses are in violation of international copyright laws. This use for educational reference, falls under the "fair use" sections of U.S. copyright law.