Cocaine Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)

This is without a doubt one of the most gangster songs ever written

Singing this song in a prison with inmates as his audience is one of the most hardcore moments in music history. Another epic Johnny Cash moment is when he sang "Junkies Prayer" on live television.... the man will definitely always be one of the greats.

You can be all kinds of gangster, but you’ll never be THIS gangster…singing a song about murder and cocaine inside a prison…to thunderous applause. What a fucking legend.

Only Johnny Cash can make a bunch of inmates scream like teenager girls at a Justin Bieber concert.

This makes me wanna rob my own House

Fun fact, Merle Haggard was doing time in prison and actually saw Cash perform

"I thought I was her daddy but she had five more." Love that line.

I wish country music was still like this.

One of the best songs from Johnny Cash.

I Don’t Care What Everyone Says I’m Calling Johnny Cash The 👑KING OF COUNTRY👑

Love this man,been listening to him since I could walk....my dad listened to him regularly and I took it all in...that was about 1970.....71..I'm 52 now and still listening.....LEGEND......

"I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"

I’m 28 years old. I don’t know how to thank my father for turning me on to this music from when I was just crawling. I’m 28 years old but my favorite band are The Beatles and I think Johnny Cash is probably the coolest human to touch a guitar in the entire USA. Coolest dude who ever lived.

a salute to a true country legend rip jonny cash

I have probably listened to this song over a million times now. I can't get enough of Johnny Cash. I love his talent in life.

Phoenix nailed it

The only person in history that can make true hard core gangsters from Folsom Prison scream for more. What I mean is…. There is nothing that can touch this. The best. ♥️😊

I saw Johnny Cash, June Carter and the entire family 35 years ago in Sisters, Oregon at a rodeo grounds. I’m nearly 70 now and it was the best concert I have ever seen.

Rip to a legend

my brother in law turned me on to this album the summer I was going into 8th grade. I knew every word to every tune. I was singing COCAINE BLUES when 11 yrs old. He also said (brother in law), to me, "hear that? 'I saw that little judge commence to look about'? ". When locked up the girls would ALways ask me to sing these tunes. You get out and get arrested again and the other girls too unless they stayed in and they'd ask me to sing the tunes from this record - Long Black Veil. My dad was sitting at the table when I was washing the dinner dishes at home and I started singing, GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY, (you sure like to ball), having NO CLUE what it meant. My dad cracked up when he heard me sing that. That was cool if him, I always thought - when I found out what it meant. I would wonder how many times he heard me sing, "all the girls in France they hve tulips in their pants"? Took me into my early 20s before I figured that one out. MASTERPIECE ALBUM! JOHNNY CASHS' covers of newer artists are remarkable - Personal Jesus, Hurt, etc. Even we hear the song differently when we listen to CASH perform them. RIP JOHN CASH ❤️❤️❤️🖕