CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/7/2018

Jim Marshall on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

"John asked Columbia Records to have me come with them to Folsom Prison in 1968. I had been busted a few months before for shooting a guy so it was really a bit weird for me. When those gates banged shut I wondered when we were gonna get out again. Obviously it was very different from any other show… you had to sign a release, if you were taken hostage or anything they wouldn't negotiate for you! They weren't expecting any trouble but they had armed guards up in the towers. It was a real treat, the audience was great, respectful. Not all of them would have been Jonny Cash fans before but by the end they certainly were. If Johnny would've said, 'c'mon, let's crash out of here right now,' they'd have done it.'" —Jim Marshall