A cache along Highway #6. There is a turnoff just south of the cache location if you want to be off the highway. Should be a dry location however during spring melt there may be standing water nearby. My trips up north are being cut back to one a year to Flin Flon and Thompson each, so maintenance wil only be done during those trips.
Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk genres, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash would continue to use for the rest of his career. It became one of Cash's signature songs. It was the eleventh track on his debut album With His Hot and Blue Guitar but was also included (same version) on All Aboard the Blue Train.
http://www.myxer.com/video/id/15025580/Johnny-Cash/Folsom-Prison-Blues/
Cash was inspired to write this song after seeing the movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951) while serving in West Germany in the United States Air Force. Cash recounted how he came up with the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die": "I sat with my pen in my hand, trying to think up the worst reason a person could have for killing another person, and that's what came to mind."[1]
Cash borrowed the melody for the song and many of the lyrics from Gordon Jenkins's 1953 Seven Dreams concept album, specifically the song "Crescent City Blues".[2] Jenkins was not credited on the original record, which was issued by Sun Records. In the early 1970s, after the song became popular, Cash paid Jenkins a settlement of approximately $75,000.[3]
Cash included the song, considered one of his signature songs, in his repertoire for decades. Cash performed the song at Folsom Prison itself on January 13, 1968, and this version was eventually released on the At Folsom Prison album the same year. That opening song is more up-tempo than the Sun studio recording. According to Michael Streissguth, the cheering from the audience following the line "I shot a man in Reno / just to watch him die" was added in post-production. A special on the Walk the Line DVD indicates that the prisoners were careful not to cheer at any of Cash's comments about the prison itself, fearing reprisal from guards. Pitchfork Media placed this live version at number 8 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s."[4] The live performance of the song won Cash the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, the first of four he would win in his career, at the 1969 Grammy Awards.
Cover versions
- Charley Pride covered the song on Country Charley Pride (RCA, 1966) before it hit number one on the charts.
- Bob Dylan and The Band covered the song during their 1967 "Basement Tapes" sessions.
- Merle Haggard recorded the song on his 1968 Album Mama Tried.
- The International Submarine Band included a recording of the song on their 1968 album Safe at Home.
- Waylon Jennings covered the song on Jewels in 1968; the same recording appeared on Heartaches By The Number in 1972; and a new version on the album Black on Black in 1982.
- Ernest Tubb covered the song on his 1969 album Saturday Satan Sunday Saint.
- Lester Flatt covered the song in 1971.
- Jerry Lee Lewis on his 1981 album, Killer Country[5]
- Brooks & Dunn recorded the song on the 1994 album, Red Hot + Country. The cover featured Cash singing along on the last verse.
- The Reverend Horton Heat covered the song on the 1999 greatest hits album, Holy Roller.
- Keb' Mo' covered it on the 2002 tribute album Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash.
- Blackie and the Rodeo Kings covered the song in the 2003 tribute album Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash (Northern Blues)
- Everlast covered the song on his 2008 album Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford.
- Accessory gave us an industrial cover on the bonus CD of the limited 2CD version of 2011's "Underbeat".
I hear the train a comin'
It's rollin' 'round the bend,
And I ain't seen the sunshine,
Since, I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison,
And time keeps draggin' on,
But that train keeps a-rollin',
On down to San Antone.
When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry.
I bet there's rich folks eatin',
In a fancy dining car,
They're probably drinkin' coffee,
And smokin' big cigars,
But I know I had it comin',
I know I can't be free,
But those people keep a-movin',
And that's what tortures me.
Well, if they freed me from this prison,
If that railroad train was mine,
I bet I'd move out over a little,
Farther down the line,
Far from Folsom Prison,
That's where I want to stay,
And I'd let that lonesome whistle,
Blow my Blues away.
Congratulations to Jesterphox and geopup on FTF of Version 1.0
Who will be FTF on Version 2.0 (Note original log sheet still in place)> First to log after Novemebr 1, 2016 will be FTF of Version 2.0.
Congratulations to Northernimport & hct81for FTF on Version 2.