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Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues"That line in 'Folsom Prison Blues,' the one that still gets the biggest rise out of my audiences - 'I shot a man in Reno just watch him die' - is imaginative, not autobiographical," Johnny Cash once remarked. "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. It did come to mind quite easily, though."
Cash, Johnny (1932-2003) American musician [noted for his role in reviving American country and western music with such
works as Ride This Train (1960), Ring of Fire (1963), I Walk the Line (1964), Orange Blossom Special (1965), The Holy Land (1968), At Folsom Prison (1968), Gospel Road (1973), Five Feet High and Rising (1974), Last Gunfighter Ballad (1977), Rockabilly Blues (1980), The Survivors (with J. Lee Lewis and C. Perkins, 1982), Rainbow (1985), Believe in Him (1986), Water from the Wells of Home (1988), The Sun Years (1990), The Mystery of Life (1991), American Recordings (1994), Unchained (1996), VH1 Storytellers (with W. Nelson, 1998), American III: Solitary Man (2000), and Love God Murder (2000)]
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