Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Concert Documented by Photographer Jim Marshall
Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” still stands as the ultimate outlaw song. With the infamous line “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” he proclaims himself a killer badass, the kind of guy most people wouldn’t want to see released from prison. But Cash’s sympathy for the outlaw went much further than playing an exaggerated version onstage, even on the stages of famous prisons like Folsom. In “San Quentin,” he articulates the problem of prisons: No matter how badly