Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Running time: 87 mins

He bent the bars with music and let their souls fly free.

A guitar strung with sin and unsavory tales sings out yarns of hopeful remorse. This is an account of Cash?s long time advocacy of prison reform. At Folsom Prison was the first record ever recorded in a prison, when Johnny Cash, guitar in hand, induced the men of Folsom prison to transcend the walls that set asunder society from those inside.

From a man who never spent more than an overnight in a cell, comes a sound that reverberates with a doleful understanding of the woes of men behind bars. The parallel and divergent journey of Cash and the men of Folsom Prison shows that a man fettered by drugs and alcohol, and men imprisoned by other men, may bear their burden together and concertedly lament. Undoubtedly, this is a testament to the comradeship of men.