One Man in the Crowd. JOHNNY CASH Played San Quentin. Neither Knew What It Started.

On New Year's Day, 1959, Johnny Cash walked into San Quentin State Prison and played for several hundred men in the yard. He didn't know their names. He didn't keep records of who was watching. One of them was a twenty-one-year-old serving time for attempted burglary. He had a guitar and no plan. He had never performed professionally and had no reason to believe he ever would. He would go on to become one of the most celebrated voices in the history of country music. And it started in that yard, on a cold January morning, with a man in a black coat at a microphone who never knew he was there. This is the story of what Johnny Cash started without knowing he had started anything. New stories every week. Subscribe to stay close. #JohnnyCash #MerleHaggard #ManInBlack #SanQuentinPrison #JohnnyCashStories #CountryMusic #MusicHistory #JohnnyCashUntold #CountryLegend #UntoldStories #JohnnyCashChannel #MerleHaggardStories #1959 #PrisonMusic #Nashville #MusicLegend #AmericanMusic #CountryMusicHistory #BakersfiledSound #MusicDocumentary