The guys take advice from a listener letter and dig into the history of rock concerts inside prisons – from Johnny Cash to Metallica (and lots in between…)

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SHOW NOTES:

Songs in this episode: “Crescent City Blues” – Gordon Jenkins

https://daily.jstor.org/far-from-folsom-prison-more-to-music-inside/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1951-prison-b-movie-inspired-folsom-prison-blues-180961740/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_Wilbur

https://www.avclub.com/the-bold-innovative-canon-city-deserves-to-be-better-k-1798247307

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-reason-why-johnny-cash-performed-in-prisons/

https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/sing-sing-thanksgiving-1973

https://www.openculture.com/2015/12/b-b-king-plays-live-at-sing-sing-prison.html

https://www.vera.org/news/fifty-years-ago-today-president-nixon-declared-the-war-on-drugs

https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2018/10/04/artists-have-long-helped-rehabilitate-incarcerated/

https://www.openculture.com/2018/02/when-the-sex-pistols-played-at-the-chelmsford-top-security-prison.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/rkqq3x/when-the-cramps-and-the-mutants-invaded-a-mental-hospital

https://dailydoseofdead.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/today-in-grateful-dead-history-august-4-1971-terminal-island-correctional-facility-san-pedro-ca/

https://www.loudersound.com/news/serial-killer-richard-ramirez-was-pissed-off-that-he-missed-metallica-playing-san-quentin-prison-as-he-was-on-death-row