American Songwriter

5 Facts About Johnny Cash’s February 1969 San Quentin Prison Concert You Might Not Have Caught On the Album

As a bit of an aside, fellow country music star Merle Haggard watched Cash perform as an audience member and San Quentin inmate during one of Cash’s earliest appearances. The two stars joked about the ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1958, Johnny Cash Played His First-Ever Prison Concert and Changed One Inmate’s Life (and the Country Music World) Forever

On this day (January 1) in 1958, Johnny Cash played a free concert behind the walls of San Quentin Prison in California. It would be the first of many concerts Cash played for groups of incarcerated ...