With its clever lyrics and catchy tune, it’s classic Cash-style humor with a message. Folsom Prison Blues : Told from a prisoner’s point of view, this gritty anthem mixes dark humor and regret.

The artists who released these classic hit songs found success as well as plagiarism allegations and lawsuits.

The artist who sings a song isn’t the only person responsible for it. Maybe someone else wrote it, and a whole team at a ...

Earlier this week Crane spoke with The Western Star about the parody song based on the late Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” which he’d co-written, set to music and video recorded. When Crane did ...

The Ramones’ punk-era salute to a surf song is filled with lyrics celebrating the historic and popular Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York. ... “I’m stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin’ on.” ...

It’s one of those mythical rock meetups that’s actually true. In the nascent days of rock ’n roll—December 4, 1956 to be ...

Westside Cowboy is no longer a best-kept secret. After setting Brighton alight at The Great Escape Festival and gearing up to open Glastonbury’s Woodsies stage as Emerging Talent winners, the ...

Dark As A Dungeon lyrics tell a haunting story of coal mines. See how Cash, Ford, and Sparklehorse made it timeless.

Watch Cash perform “Folsom Prison Blues” for the troops at Fort Sheppard below. [RELATED: On This Day in 1956, Johnny Cash Released a Song Written for His First Wife That Became His First No. 1] ...

A Blues Brothers archival concert recording, 'The Lost Album,' accompanies a new graphic novel, 'The Escape of Joliet Jake,' out this fall.