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World Service,08 Jan 2013,9 mins

Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison

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It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a high-security jail. But the singer had been interested in prisoners' lives for years. His drummer remembers the day they first set foot in the prison. Photo: Johnny Cash - BBC.

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