Gospel Music Is So Ingrained Into My

[my Father] Did Every Kind Of Work Imaginable From Painting To Shoveling To Herding Cattle. And He's Always Been Such An Inspiration To Me Because Of The Very Kinds Of Things That He Did And The Kind Of Life He Lived.

When I'm Gone I'll Be Remembered As The Workin' Man Who Put His Point Across With A Right Hand Full Of Knuckles.

I Walk The Line Was My Third Record.

In The Air Force, I Had An Old Wilcox Gay Recorder, And I Used To Hear Guitar Runs On That Recorder Going (vocalizing) Like The Chords On "i Walk The Line." And I Always Wanted To Write A Love Song Using That Theme, That Tune.

The Requests Started Coming In From Other Prisoners All Over The United States. And Then The Word Got Around. So I Always Wanted To Record That, You Know, To Record A Show Because Of The Reaction I Got. It Was Far And Above Anything I Had Ever Had In My Life, The Complete Explosion Of Noise And Reaction That They Gave Me With Every Song. So Then I Came Back The Next Year And Played The Prison Again, The New Year's Day Show, Came Back Again A Third Year And Did The Show.