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"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Written in 1953,[1] 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.[2]

Cash was inspired to write this song after seeing the movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) while serving in West Germany in the United States Air Force at Landsberg, Bavaria (itself the location of a famous prison).[3] Cash recounted how he came up with the line "But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die": "I sat with my pen in my hand, trying to think up the worst reason a person could have for killing another person, and that's what came to mind."[4]

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Cash opened almost all of his concerts with "Folsom Prison Blues," after greeting the audience with his trademark introduction, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," for decades. Cash performed the song at Folsom Prison itself on January 13, 1968, which was recorded and later released as a live album titled At Folsom Prison. That opening version of the song is more up-tempo than the original Sun recording. According to Michael Streissguth, the cheering from the audience following the line "But I shot a man in Reno / just to watch him die" was added in post-production. According to a special feature on the DVD release of the 2005 biopic Walk the Line, the prisoners avoided cheering at any of Cash's comments about the prison itself, fearing reprisal from guards. The performance again featured Cash, Perkins and Grant, as on the original recording, together with W.S. Holland (drums).[8]

The usual 12-bar blues pattern -three different chords (I, IV and V) played over 12 bars and repeated, seemed to be shortened to 11 for the majority of the song. The fifth verse does have 12 bars and seems to provide resolution.

Johnny performed his first prison concert at Huntsville State Prison in Texas in 1957. After hearing the response from the inmates, he began to think about a live recording at one of the facilities. Cash recorded other live prison albums as well, including At San Quentin (1969), P sterker (Sweden 1973), and A Concert Behind Prison Walls (Tennessee State Prison 1974) which included guests Linda Ronstadt, Roy Clark, and Foster Brooks.

Inside the prison, Dean fits right in, drawing on his extensive knowledge of prison life from movies such as The Great Escape. When a fight lands Dean in solitary, he gets to witness the supernatural killer firsthand when it attacks another prisoner. Sam discovers that a notorious killer, Mark Moody, was killed in the old cell block and traces of his blood may be tying the spirit to the prison. After winning cigarettes playing cards, Dean trades them for lighter fluid. Combined with the salt supplied with their meals they have the means to banish the spirit. Dean picks a fight with a con called Tiny, allowing Sam to slip away to the old cell block and torch a blood-soaked mattress.

Recovering from their wounds in the prison infirmary, Dean is attacked by the apparition of a nurse. He manages to ward it off with some salt, but the ghost kills Tiny. Sam and Dean finds out that the ghost belongs to Nurse Glockner, who used to kill prisoners in the infirmary and who was later killed herself during a riot. Dean tries to get Mara Daniels to find out where Nurse Glockner is buried, assuring her of his innocence and insisting that this would be the best use of her time, but she refuses. Dean argues with Sam that they must stay in the prison until they get the information and finish the job, but Sam insists they follow through with their pre-planned escape. They start fighting and one of the guards hauls them away.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,

Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,

I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,

But is there because he's a victim of the times.

The commanding officer of Cash's unit had the men watch Crane Wilbur's "Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison," a film about the California lockup, which inspired Cash to write his song. Folsom Prison is one of the most famous prisons in the nation, notorious for its harsh conditions and dangerous prisoner population. The most controversial and memorable line in the song, by far, is:

In 1955, "Folsom Prison Blues" became the second single Johnny Cash released after signing to Sun Records (the same guys who initially produced Elvis), and though the song cracked the Country Top 5, it did not skyrocket him to fame and fortune. It did, however, receive a very warm welcome and almost cult following from prison inmates across the country. From San Quentin to Sing Sing, inmates wrote Cash tons of fan mail (probably more than the average bear, since what do prisoners do besides write letters?) which hit a soft spot in the singer's heart and sparked his desire to do a prison tour.

Backed by the ever-faithful June Carter and her family as well as his original band, the Tennessee Three, Cash launches a prison tour that leads to his most successful album ever. This would never have been possible without the go-ahead from Bob Johnston, the A&R man from Columbia Records who had been put in charge of Cash's material after some internal personnel changes at the label. Johnston was the kind of guy who liked to argue with studio execs and take risks, and when Cash proposed a potentially controversial live album recorded inside a prison, Johnston jumped at the chance. After only two days of rehearsing (and a visit from then-governor Ronald Reagan), the musicians debuted at Folsom Prison in California on January 13th, 1968.

The first song he performed, appropriately enough, was "Folsom Prison Blues" which received a huge response from the crowd. The bands recorded 15 live tracks in all, including several duets between Johnny and June, followed by June reading a poem, and closing with Cash covering a song called "Greystone Chapel" which had been written by prison inmate Glen Sherley. The musicians recorded a second performance right after the first one, but due to their exhaustion only two of those tracks made it onto the final LP.

Though the majority of Cash's fans have never done any time, Cash believes there is a reason that "Folsom Prison Blues" resonated so strongly with his listeners: "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." (Source)

Whether we feel trapped by a bad relationship, a boring city, a crappy job, a cramped apartment, or simply some bad decisions we've made, we all know what it feels like to be "prisoners" in our own lives. Cash himself knew deeply what it meant to be a prisoner of drugs, guilt, and depression, and wrote this song as much as catharsis for himself as for his fans.

1. I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' 'round the bend

And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

I'm stuck at Folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on

But that train keeps rollin' on down to San Antone

4. Well if they freed me from this prison if this railroad train was mine

I bet I'd movin' over a little farther down the line

Far from Folsom prison that's where I want to stay

And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

After hearing about a ghost that has been killing off inmates one by one, Sam and Dean decide the best way to investigate this spirit is from the inside and allow themselves to get thrown into the state penitentiary. However, after FBI agent Henriksen (guest star C. Malik Whitfield) shows up to take over their case, getting out of prison becomes a bigger challenge than finding the spirit.

An old marine buddy of John Winchester and current prison warden, Deacon, asks Sam and Dean for help. Not long after a disused cell block was re-opened, something supernatural started killing people - prisoners and guards - in the Green River County Detention Center.

Whilst Dean and Tiny are recovering from their wounds in the prison infirmary, Dean is attacked by the apparition of a nurse. He manages to ward it off with some salt, but the ghost kills Tiny. Sam and Dean find out that the ghost belongs to Nurse Dolores Glockner, who used to kill prisoners in the infirmary, and who was later killed herself during a riot.

Dean tries to get Mara Daniels to find out where Nurse Glockner is buried, and to convince her of his innocence, but she refuses. Dean argues with Sam that they must stay in the prison until they get the information and finish the job, but Sam insists they follow through with their pre-planned escape. They start fighting and one of the guards hauls them away.

After the escape, Henriksen interrogates Deacon and finds out that Daniels passed information to the boys, which she reluctantly reveals under pressure. Meanwhile, the boys are in a cemetery salting and burning Nurse Glockner's remains. Cut to Deacon in the prison bathroom, where he is assaulted by Glockner's ghost. Back in the cemetery the FBI arrive, only to find they have been sent to the wrong cemetery. The boys manage to burn Nurse Glockner's body just in time to save Deacon. e24fc04721