Bill Fuller & The Early Times - Folsom Prison Blues / I'll Go On Pretending Album

Tracklist

1	I'll Go On Pretending	2:44
2	Folsom Prison Blues	2:20

Notes

60's recording & pressing

Album

Текст песни: I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps rollin' on down to San Antone. I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. Folsom Prison Blues is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career. It was one of Cash's signature songs. It was the eleventh track on his debut album With His Hot and Blue Guitar and it was also included same version on All Aboard the Blue Train. A live version, recorded among inmates at Folsom. Listen to Folsom Prison Blues from Bill Miller's Reservation Road: Live for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and. Well I hear that train a comming, its rollin round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since, I don't know when Yeah I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, timeListen to Folsom Prison Blues from Bill Miller's Reservation Road: Live for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Well I hear that train a comming, its rollin round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since, I don't know when Yeah I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, time View full lyrics. Similar Tracks. Bobby Bare - Folsom Prison Blues. Eric Clapton - Pretending. Bailey Anderson - Folsom Prison Blues. Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two - Folsom Prison Blues, So Doggone Lonesome. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison. Slim Harpo - Folsom Prison Blues, Mutual Friend. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues. Copyrights 2018-2019. I hear the train a comin' It's rolling round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when, I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps. Folsom Prison Blues' is a song by Johnny Cash, written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955. It was later included on the Johnny Cash's debut studio album 'With His Hot and Blue Guitar,' released in 1957. Story behind the song. Johnny Cash got an inspiration for this song after seeing the 1951 movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison , while he was serving in the US Air Force in West Germany at Landsberg, Bavaria, which is the location of a famous prison too. Cash explained that he wrote the line But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die, while he was thinking up the worst reason a person could have for killing another person. Cash began performing Folsom Prison Blues for inmates in the late Fifties, more than a decade before At Folsom Prisons release. The occupants of a prison in Huntsville, Texas, gave Cash his first incarnated audience back in 1957. When rainy weather ruined his bands equipment, Cash finished the show solo. A country classic since the 1950s, Folsom Prison Blues has made its way into countless genres. Dozens of artists, from Buckcherry to Everlast, have put their own stamp on the song, updating Cashs twang with everything from psychobilly percussion to hard rock riffs. In This Article: CMT,. The Live From Folsom Prison album helped revitalize his career - his last Country chart-topper and Top 40 Hot 100 entry was Understand Your Man in 1964. This is the first song Cash performed at his show where Live From Folsom Prison was recorded. Bob Johnston, famous for his work with Bob Dylan, produced the album and arranged for the prison performance. Go to YouTube and look for 'Crescent City Blues'. After watching a prison film, in the Air Force in 1954, Johnny put the structure of his song together. not realising he borrowed so heavily from the Gordon Jenkins' original. Johnny Cash paid Gordon Jenkins 100,000 for copyright infringments in 1967. The film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison 1951 inspired Johnny Cash to write this song. He also borrowed a lot from the album Seven Dreams 1953 by Gordon Jenkins. The song blends two genres: train song and prison song. Johnny Cash won his first Grammy Award with this song: Best Country Vocal Performance. Rolling Stone magazine put this song on the 51st position among 100 greatest country songs of all time. All-TIME 100 Albums. The album may be dead, but it's certainly not forgotten. TIME's critics have chosen the 100 greatest and most influential musical compilations since 1954. At Californias Folsom Prison, songs like Cocaine Blues When I was arrested I was dressed in black They put me on a train and they took me back and 25 Minutes to Go With my feet on the trap and my head on the noose Got 5 more minutes to go lose some of their defiance and gain some sadness, particularly when. theyre interrupted by announcements like, 88419 is wanted in reception. The final track, Greystone Chapel, was written by Folsom inmate Glen Sherley