Johnny Cash sits on the train tracks with his guitar as a locomotive barrels down, full steam, heading for Folsom Prison. A barbed wire fence runs across the horizon (it’s chain link pattern is echoed in clouds cut from snakeskin paper).

That famous performance and recording from 1968 reset his career and cemented his connection to inmates and working people who saw themselves in his songs.

The Man in Black was more than his nickname. He wore black as a uniform for the imprisoned, the overlooked and those in mourning.

Cash “taught the weeping willow how to cry and showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.” (from Big River)