10 Totally Unique Locations For Music Concerts
8. Johnny Cash In Various Prisons (1958-1976)
It's mad to think that at one point in time, country music was the most dangerous genre in music.
While today, it is (somewhat wrongfully) stereotyped as a soft, banal style of music that focuses on trucks and making music to slow dance to at weddings, in it's prime it was regarded as counterculture music - particularly when it came from the likes of Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., and the Man in Black, Johnny Cash.
The iconic baritone star enjoyed prolonged success throughout his career where even today, some 16 years since his passing, damn-near everyone still recognises that signature Cash sound in "Walk the Line", "A Boy Named Sue" and "Ring of Fire".
Cash made several performance appearances in prisons during his heyday, beginning with a New Years Day show at San Quentin State Prison in San Francisco in 1958, the same venue Metallica would record their "St. Anger" music video in over 50 years later.
He would release the first of four live albums in 1968, the now classic At Folsom Prison before continuing with At San Quentin in 1969, På Österåker in 1973 and the posthumous A Concert Behind Prison Walls in 2003.