

"We wrote the next verse in about 10 minutes, and the song was done. "At the point where I ran out of words, just started speaking lines from his wheelchair," Stuart, 51, said recently from Nashville. They talked about Folsom Prison, and Stuart explained that he'd started writing a tune called "Hangman." When he got home, the singer, as he often did, had a chat with his neighbor Johnny Cash.

The best word that I can tell you about that room is 'creepy' even though it had been years since anyone had been killed there."Īs he headed back to Nashville, Stuart kept thinking about how awful it must have been to be a hangman.

At the time I was there, it served as the prison-band hall all the bands at Folsom Prison share a common set of instruments. "Behind the back wall of the cafeteria was the hanging gallows where, in the earliest part of the last century, they executed people. "I got to go to the cafeteria where that record was made," Stuart said. While Stuart was onstage, calls were made, and the singer eventually received permission from the governor of California to go inside the prison the next day. After all, his all-time favorite album is 1968's "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison." He wanted to go to the place where music history was made.Īt his 2003 concert, he asked a security guard about getting into the prison, where the guard also worked. Arrangements were made by Hendersonville Memory Gardens and Funeral Home.Being a country music fanatic, scholar and collector, Marty Stuart figured he had to visit Folsom Prison when he was performing in Folsom, Calif. Interment will be in Hendersonville Memory Gardens. Ifeanyi Obianyo, Vicki Langdon, Sue Langdon, Tommy Cash, John Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Joe Garrett, Kathy Cash Tittle, Cindy Cash, Tara Cash Schwoebel, Carlene Carter, Rosemary Edelman and Shannon Miller. Honorary pallbearers are Paul Garrett, Joanne Cash Yates, Harry Yates, Sara Ware, Kim Stone, Dr. Pallbearers are Benny Burlison, Aaron Burlison, Carson Burlison, Damon Fielder, Jimmy Tittle, Marty Stuart, Jeff Ingle, Danny Johnson and Bill Miller. Wednesday, March 8, at Hendersonville First Baptist Church with Harry Yates officiating. Reba leaves to enjoy her life, her loving family sons Timothy Paul Hancock (Jennifer) and Donny Wayne Burlison (Sandy), daughter Kelly Leigh Hancock, brother Tommy Cash (Marcy), sister Joanne (Harry) Cash Yates, grandchildren Nathan Zachary Hancock, Ben Burlison, Aaron Burlison, Carson Burlison, Ashley McClendon and Daniel Shawn Burlison Blackburn and great grandchildren Brooke McClendon, Shelby McClendon, Alexa Burlison and Katelyn Burlison. She was preceded in death by her parents: Ray and Carrie Cash, son: Ricky Lynn Burlison, brothers: Roy Cash, Jack Cash, and John R Cash, sister: Louise Cash Garrett and twin granddaughters. Reba Cash Hancock of Hendersonville passed away Sunday, March 5, at the age of 72. Reba Cash Hancock BIRTH Kingsland, Cleveland County, Arkansas, USA DEATH (aged 72) Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee, USA BURIAL Hendersonville Memory Gardens Henders
