Wrong.
Who knew that The Hag was a prisoner in the crowd when Cash played Folsom Prison in ‘68?!
Wrong.
Who knew that The Hag was a prisoner in the crowd when Cash played Folsom Prison in ‘68?!
Wrong.
The Country Music documentary ongoing on PBS will not be complete unless they go into some previously undisclosed details about HW Jr's injuries.
We also learned that Earl Scruggs and Charlie Daniels played a huge anti-Vietnam War rally on the National Mall in 1969.When he eventually appeared on Cash's TV show, Cash told him to admit it so that he wouldn't be blackmailed.
I dont know where you got that info about Folsom, but its wrong.
Not true.According to the Country Music documentary recently aired, as Merle Haggard's tour bus was passing through Muskogee, Merle remarked that he had family from that area. One of the band members said (after inhaling deeply and slowly) "I bet they don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee".
Right. Should have been San Quentin.I dont know where you got that info about Folsom, but its wrong.
Not true.
That is one of the 'stories" told by band members and even Merle himself to bend to political pressures.
The first concert Cash played at San Quentin. 1958.Right. Should have been San Quentin.
That is one of the 'stories" told by band members and even Merle himself to bend to political pressures.
He later recanted, and said he wrote it after he got out of prison because he knew what it was like to lose freedom, and he was fed up with the attitude of some people in the country toward servicemen, and how some people had little regard or appreciation for the freedom they took for granted.
(paraphrasing what Ive gleaned from the topic over the years).
The parody is so strong that believe it was sincere.
(paraphrasing what I have heard over the years, plus the direct statements on the CM documentary)