Friday, April 19, AD 2024 3:17am

Folsom Prison Blues

Something for the weekend.  Folsom Prison Blues (1953) by the incomparable Johnny Cash, since Illinois is a lockdown state now.  Cash was inspired to write the song after seeing the movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) which he was serving in the Air Force in West Germany.

 

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