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Episode 37: “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Cash's Prison Song

The second musical inspiration for Cash's Prison Song was a song by Cash's Idol, Jimmy Vodges, Blue Yodel No. 2. Jenkins's song, In Turn, is also strongly inspired by another song, also titled Crescent City Blues by the Bougie-Woogey pianist Little for the Montgomery. If you've not heard that song before and are familiar with Cash's work, you're probably mildly in shock right now at how much like Folsomfism Blues that is.

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