Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (San Quentin)

[ShadowOfCash]

4 Persons were locked away deep in Folsom and missed this song.

[nofear785]

Any star who goes to a prison and performs in my book, is a legend, becasue their humble and brave enough to help others do better. And he's a vetran too he's my favorite old school country artist.

[love12345678910123]

thumbs up if you think he is better than justin bieber

[darkqueen12]

@love12345678910123 How DARE you?!! Why would you compare the genius Johnny Csh with Bieber! Shame on you!

[shortyspurs30]

The people that don't like this don't understand it.

[HLSchaad]

I adore this version. Can listen to it over and over and over

[NCfeusTD]

what almost none of you know is this is just how the so called american "justice system" runs to this very day...count looks just the same. The man in black may have never spent a day behind those iron bars and concrete, but he understood before 80% of America that this system is fucked...why would the country with more "freedom" than any other imprison the highest amount per capita in the world???? you listen to the man who sang the words...but have you ever questioned why?

[Epimpin101]

@NCfeusTD it has to do with the war on drugs. Obv there needs to be a better way to go about it, but it's a complicated issue...

[Wellch]

@NCfeusTD ---Yes, Johnny Cash never served time in prison. The closest thing he did doing some time in a county jail but not on any federal or state crime.

[gg0BSBZerg]

The four people that dislike this are watching twilight as we speak! DERp

[TheSailorScorpio]

The four of you that didn't like this, have no soul!

[N33DB33R]

@Canadianvoice You tell them carnal!

[mommygene666]

Prisons were created in part to be a humane alternative to the death penalty but it has turned out that the death penalty is actually the more humane option. Think about it. A convicted criminal only has to endure a few moments of pain before the punishment is all over. But, a criminal in prison has to endure years or even the rest of his life in pain before the punishment ends.

[callawaydekluizen]

@mommygene666 yes but you live...

[cArNeGiEization]

That man was plum crazy. yeeeeeeee hawwwwww

[cornbluff1]

@Rankerbill I totally agree with you!

[Rankerbill1]

The only Country singer I ever had time for. RIP Johnny.

[jake5]

Was Johnny tuned a Half Step Down most of the time? I see him using that Capo a lot.

[michelle88960]

brilliant. watch on here the 5 year old boy singing this. johnny would love it.

[monkeycaca100]

My grandfather got me into Johnny Cash when I was four and I've loved him ever since.

[wolfchick11]

@skullcandy910 I have them too and I have to completely agree. :3

[TheBluegrassman]

great videos.

[Johnnycashisabeast]

@MetalHeadWilson I believe he wrote it himself



[Johnnycashisabeast]

3 people are stuck in Folsom Prison

[rocknrollstar100]

best live prformance ever johny

[ieltxumetal]

How can be somebody who doesn't like this?

[irishgeal1]

now theres a man that loves his work, and is pretty darned good at it.

[texaspete66]

Sure I have played acoustic guitar. How else would I be qualified to comment on this then ?

[taepoongtkd]

my dad was a truck driver for 40 years,and when i went with him,he allways played johnny cash,THANKS DAD. R.I.P. johnny,

[texaspete66]

yeah it does matter because people are agreeing with me. You don't strum the damn guitar along the fretboard. thats what the body is for !

[SleeperInTheShadow]

@texaspete66 Oh yeah woooow, one person agrees with you. You don't know anything about guitars if you can't understand that you get a different sound depending on where you strum it. BOOYASHAKALAKAKAKAWAKAKAKA ice cream.

[62SG]

@texaspete66 Have you ever played an acoustic guitar? If you strum along the fretboard instead of over the soundhole you get a much rattlier sound and thats how Johnny liked it.

[texaspete66]

I don't like the way Johnny holds the guitar but everything else is superb.



[Llewellan]

I know I had it commin' .... Yooo that man knows how to give it straight....

[MrChevhead]

Like it???? Love it! Legend at work

[BOMGOBONGO]

I think that Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley are unleashing hell in the paradise with their guitars now. two legends, R.I.P.

[oltschiful]

Johann Bargeld forever the best!!

[dbgthimo]

pause at 0:14 XD

[commenter198]

@dbgthimo why did u have to scare me like that

[downloadpremier]

@dbgthimo ahhaha

[MicaelaMadonnaRStone]

@dbgthimo hahahahaha i loveeee him <3333

[musicmarkMETALLICA]

@dbgthimo I can see this being a meme. lol

[dbgthimo]

@musicmarkMETALLICA lol can someone do this please x3

[Wellch]

3 people needed to be sent to Folsom Prison.

[bugasssy]

@Wellch make it 4

[sieunarinesingh]

@Wellch As of February 20th, 2012, 4 people need to be sent to Folsom. Rock On JR Cash!

[Macadam658]

I'm 35 and seen Johnny Cash as a boy and listen to him all the time nobody comes close to Cash.

[astranine]

Well, he certainly has a captive audience :-) RIP JC.

[TheEvilelvis89]

3 people should hang their heads and cry.

[1978zappa]

GRANDE JOHNNY

[BluegrassBoys6]

You started video to soon, did not get hear the bum bum bum, bum bum buummm bum bum

[EYE50MM]

@BluegrassBoys6 RIGHT? AH, I thought that only bugged me. But at least it is up

[baysidesmart]

thank you johnny for bringing the light of happiness where darkness is

[katsuyukisakata]

Who is guitar player?

[edumartins]

One prison guard watched this and didnt liked.

[kgckmomma]

Never in a million years would I have ever though I would have named one of my kids after a celebrity. But after Johnny died and I was pregnant. My little girl is prolly happy she wasn't a boy cause I'm sure the name Cash wouldn't have went well.

[TheWitchOvAgnesi]

@kgckmomma LOL, so is her name "June" then?

[Bigbadred23]

Was ANYBODY better than Johnny Cash? 

[paulshox]

@Bigbadred23 simply no

[m4xfl4xst4r]

@Bigbadred23  God

[1234WeeDee]

click 0:12, epic.... johnny cash is king!!

[1234WeeDee]

click 0:11, epic

[ZombieDeathProof]

What a Bad Ass!!

[dsmith1731]

johnny cash...wow wow wow!!! he is what america is all about!!!! the greatest concert in history and in a prison too!!! miss you Johnny !!!!

[ederarcher]

Is not a country music Is a Cash music!

[walcr9]

all of the good guys die

R.I.P JOHNNY CASH !!!!!!!!

[MrJerrylee1974]

love it

[Kingslayer3]

It has nothing to do with country , its just "Cash music" and alway will be! :)

[davidaycock]

U DOND HAVE 2 SAY COUNTRY?

[j2850]

i bet none of the modern ''artists'' would perform at a prison. johnny was and is the best

[CombatRocks]

@j2850 Prison gigs are the best. You've got a 'captive' audience!!! We're trying to get into Barlinnie in Glasgow for a gig.

[Canadianvoice]

@j2850 I would like to see a modern day rapper like Lil wayne, or T.I. actually preform at a prison instead of serving time there. Like they think they are so "Gangster" yet a man as bad ass as Johnny Cash is going to be more of a Gangster then any fucking pathetic rapper nowadays is going to be.

[Kroggo]

@j2850

U ever heared of Metallica?

I think Johnny Cash is one of the greatest EVER, but hes not the only one.

[Kroggo]

@j2850 @j2850

U ever heared of Metallica?

I think Johnny Cash is one of the greatest EVER, but hes not the only one.

[j2850]

@Kroggo im listening to them right now on my ipod... XD

[lockpickergenius]

Look at this back then, Beautiful Music...meaningful, now it's all Pop/Dance/Rap crap...

[skullcandy910]

i have his 4 disc set and i conclude he is the greatest country artist ever

[wonatesics]

townes van zandt

[1337bard]

There are a LOT of Johnny Cash box sets out there. Check em out.

[DaMuttzNutz]

@skullcandy910: I have to agree with you. I love Cash and I'm not even a country fan.

[frankmarra]

@skullcandy910 Not to sound like everyone else on here, but Johnny isn't country! He doesn't have a country accent, there is no slide guitar, no telecasters, and no cowboy hats! LONG LIVE THE TRUE KING OF MUSIC.

[JohnnyCash1Fan1]

@frankmarra Luther Perkins used only telecasters.. He passed away in 1968 so at San Quentin there was Bob Wooton.. and he used telecasters many times too

[frankmarra]

@JohnnyCash1Fan1 I don't know too much about Johnny's band. This video it looks like he's playing a jazzmaster. I was just trying to make a point that Johnny Cash doesn't fit into the staple Country category. Thanks for the info though sir!

[hjb103055]

@frankmarra I don't know where you heard that Johnny Cash isn't country. Read about him here. Johnny Cash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[frankmarra]

@hjb103055 what makes his music Country?

[hjb103055]

@frankmarra The same thing that makes The Beatles music rock and roll? 

[woodyfurball]

@skullcandy910 you forgot to say The Best Non President Ever!

[TheChatham1967]

@skullcandy910 I'll back that assumption. What happened to music? Johnny Cash, David Allen Coe, Charlie Daniels; Those guys were not only talented musician, but phenomenal story tellers. Now we're cursed with the stylings of little wayne, and his ilk.

Thank you Johnny Cash.

[scofer1873]

@skullcandy910 nahh, he's not the greatest country artist ever

he's the greatest artist ever.

[captaincrowband]

@skullcandy910

True that!!

[GuitarMan027]

Simply a legend... his music will play on

4-ever...

[puluka101]

he is the best the legend of country!!!

[smerlinare]

Brilliant

[martinyeomans8]

Great