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Show NTERTAINMENT Paradoxically, this was one of Cash's most productive periods. Severa! of his epic writing and recording works were accomplished while he was suffering his heaviest addiction. Such albums as “Ride This Train,” “Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West,” and his collection of Indian ballads were all researched, written, and recorded while indulging in severe drug abuse. I worked a country-music show with Johnny at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in 1966. He and Vivian had been separated for some months, and he had been iiving in Nashville. He looked bad. His clothes just hung on him, andhewas terribly nervous. But none of this interfered with his performance. He was brilliant that night. Daring the next year I spoke with Cash a couple of times on the phone but did not see him again until November, 1967. I was scheduled to introduce him from the stage of the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. As I entered Cash’s dressing room at the Shrine, I saw a new man. He had put on some weight. He was sitting quietly, taiking with June Carter. As I entered the dressing room, Johnny stood and extended his hand warmly. We chatted for a moment, then I asked him about the pilis. “I'm off of ’em!” Cash said quietly, “Can't you tell?” Yes, I could. After the show was over, I was with him in his dressing room, and he said, “Hugh, I gonna’ go to Folsom Prison and record an album. and I would like for you to come along and MCthe show for me. Do you wanna’ go?”I didn’t have to be asked twice. The experience at Folsom is one I shall never forget. I had worked shows at prisons in Tennessee, but none had the forbidding reputation of Folsom. The Cash party—musicians, engineers, newspapermen—were escorted behind the walls by several guards. Armed with shotguns, they paced the catwalks above the mess hall. The stage was a make-shift construction at one end of the long room. The mess-hall kitchen was used as the performers’ dressing room. New! 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