Folsom Prison Blues

Name: Folsom Prison Blues
Duration: 2 min 57 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
3.27	Folsom Prison Blues	3:00	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	1964-1969, Plus	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	Album + Compilation	US1995-10-17	Bear Family Records	BCD 15879
Bootleg
1.5	Folsom Prison Blues	2:57	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys	The Chronogical Classics: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs 1968–1969	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys	Album + Compilation	US2010	Warped Records (US country reissue)	WARPED 6876

producer:	Bob Johnston (US record producer and early rockebilly singer)
12 string guitar [rhythm 12 string guitar]:	Charlie Daniels (on 1968-09-09) Jerry W. Shook (on 1968-09-09)
banjo:	Earl Scruggs (on 1968-09-09)
double bass:	Bob Moore (U.S. bassist and bandleader) (on 1968-09-09) Norbert Putnam (on 1968-09-09) Henry Strzelecki (on 1968-09-09) Jake Tullock (country stand-up bass) (on 1968-09-09)
drums (drum set):	Kenny Buttrey
fiddle:	Paul Warren (US fiddler) (on 1968-09-09)
guitar:	Lester Flatt (on 1968-09-09) Johnny Johnson (US country guitarist/bassist, active 1950s-1974) (on 1968-09-09)
guitar [lead guitar]:	Randy Scruggs (on 1968-09-09)
resonator guitar:	Josh Graves (on 1968-09-09)
tambourine:	Gary Scruggs (on 1968-09-09)
lead vocals:	Lester Flatt (on 1968-09-09)

recorded at:	Columbia Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (on 1968-09-09)

recording of:	Folsom Prison Blues (on 1968-09-09)

lyricist and composer:	Johnny Cash (country music legend)

publisher:	Aberbach (London) (publisher) Carlin Music Corporation Hi Lo Music

later parody versions:	Donnie Prison Blues The Cats of Cash
later translated versions:	Folsom Prison Blues (German version) Kåkfararblues Sluten anstalt blues
is based on:	Crescent City Blues