Cash originally released “Folsom Prison Blues” as the B-side to his second single, “So Doggone Lonesome.” The single peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He recorded the track ...
On this day (July 30) in 1955, Johnny Cash entered the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded the original rendition of “Folsom Prison Blues.” He would later release the song as a ...