7” 45 Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues / So Doggone Lonesome * 1955

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Johnny Cash And Tennessee Two

Label: Sun – 232

Format:

Vinyl, 7", Single

Country: US

Released: 1955

Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country

Style: Rockabilly, Country

Tracklist

A Folsom Prison Blues

B So Doggone Lonesome

Companies, etc.

Published By – Hi-Lo Music

Credits

Written-By – Cash*

CONDITION:

The record has not been played more than a couple times. Both labels are clean. (See pics).

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"So Doggone Lonesome" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. He and his band (The Tennessee Two) recorded the song in a studio session at Sun Records studios at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. The session took place on July 30, 1955, when the trio also recorded "Luther Played The Boogie" (a homage to the group's lead guitarist, Luther Perkins) and "Mean Eyed Cat", the latter of which Cash reprised on his Unchained album for Rick Rubin's American Recordings.

Cash was a great admirer of Ernest Tubb, and wrote "So Doggone Lonesome" with him in mind. Many of Cash's self-penned recordings were written with a certain artist in mind, including "Get Rhythm", originally written for Elvis Presley.

Legend has it that Tubb heard "So Doggone Lonesome" on the radio, which inspired him to record his own version of the song. Tubb did indeed record "So Doggone Lonesome" and performed it on the Grand Ole Opry, but the inspiration for his decision to do so is unclear. Additionally, Cash is reported to have said he only believed he had truly "made it" as an artist when he heard Tubb singing one of his songs.

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Johnny Cash scored his first Top 10 single with “Folsom Prison Blues” in 1956. The tune was the sophomore release from his 1957 debut album, Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar!.

While Johnny had a few run-ins with the law during his 71 years on earth, he never served any significant time in prison. However, Johnny felt a certain kinship with prisoners.

Later in his career, he often played concerts for inmates. Of course, the most famous of the aforementioned shows was at California’s Folsom Prison in 1968, but we’ll get that in a minute. First, back to the song.

In 1951, Johnny Cash was in the midst of a four-year stint in the U.S. Air Force (1950–1954). He joined the Air Force when the Korean War began, and spent most of his time as a military cryptographer in West Germany.

While overseas, Cash viewed the 1951 film, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, which inspired him to pen his signature hit about a lonely prisoner tortured by time as he sits in his cell.

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