Sixty-five years ago today, on Jan. 1, 1959, Johnny Cash kicked off the new year on a high note: It was on that date that the singer performed at the famous San Quentin State Prison in California ...

Johnny Cash's live album, At San Quentin, is one of the most iconic live albums of all time. Recorded at California's San Quentin State Prison on Feb. 24, 1969, and released in June of year ...

How Johnny Cash's performance at San Quentin prison turned Merle Haggard away from a life crime and toward a career in music.

And Cash sings “San Quentin” twice in a row. The incredible difference between the two “takes” totally justifies the double-shot. “I kinda like it myself, now,” Johnny declares.

It’s New Year’s Day, 1959 (although the year is often debated), and Johnny Cash is playing his first-ever prison concert at San Quentin in California. There, Cash played through a set of his ...

When San Quentin State Prison had Johnny Cash perform the first-ever in-prison concert there in 1969, it kicked off decades of radical expression. "San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell," Cash ...

His most famous prison performances were inside Folsom State Prison and San Quentin State Prison in California. Both concerts yielded highly successful live albums, “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison ...

In 1969, singer-songwriter Johnny Cash recorded his second live album, “Johnny Cash at San Quentin,” inside the prison in front of an audience of inmates.

and San Quentin State Prison (2010) — honoring the very places where Cash made history. Gene Beley, one of the two journalists who covered Johnny Cash's original 1968 Folsom Prison performance ...

Memorably described as "living hell" by Johnny Cash, San Quentin has long been one of the USA's most infamous prisons. However, it's now receiving a Nordic-style makeover that will focus on ...