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SOURCES: Burt Folsom, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Japan Economic Institute
RELEASED. RICK JAMES, 44, grandmaster of funk (Super Freak); after serving two years and 23 days of a five-year sentence; in Folsom, California. In 1994 James was convicted of assaulting a woman, holding her hostage and giving her cocaine...
...women doing time for the kinds of misbehavior people write country tunes about. The resultant live album, It's About Time...(Margaritaville Records), is sad, strong stuff, and may be the most potent peek into the connection between lock-up desperation and good country blues since Johnny Cash played Folsom Prison...
...James Folsom...
...redemption are not just topics for Cash's songs; they're themes in his career. He grew up in the tiny town of Dyess, Arkansas (pop. 464). After signing with legendary Sun Records -- Presley's first label -- in 1955, he recorded such hits as Folsom Prison Blues before moving to Columbia Records in 1958. Cash remained with Columbia for almost three decades and produced a formidable string of hits. Along the way he married June Carter, of the Carter Family Singers, a country-gospel group; they have a son as well as several children by previous marriages. As Cash aged...