{"id":29484,"date":"2024-07-23T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=29484"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:49:14","slug":"johnny-cash-inspired-melissa-etheridge-to-perform-in-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/johnny-cash-inspired-melissa-etheridge-to-perform-in-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Cash Inspired Melissa Etheridge To Perform In Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the new docuseries, Melissa Etheridge: I&#8217;m Not Broken, the singer is shown performing in a prison in her native Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/melissa-etheridge-explains-how-johnny-cash-inspired-her-to-perform-in-prisons-exclusive-8672413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a new interview with People<\/a>, Etheridge reveals that Johnny Cash came to her hometown when she was young and played a show at a prison there.<\/p>\n<p>Etheridge was around 9 at the time of Cash\u2019s 1970 prison performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo one in Kansas City saw him. I thought, \u2018Wow, prisons must be a place of fine entertainment. And this is a goal. I would like to be that someday.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Etheridge filmed her performance at the Topeka Correctional Facility for the docuseries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t afraid of prisons or of what was going on in there. And so I always knew that I wanted to get back and do that sort of Johnny Cash thing, the performance for people that really need it, who probably haven\u2019t had entertainment in months, years, decades, and just how healing that can be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OkKNJM_twEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the new docuseries, Melissa Etheridge: I&#8217;m Not Broken, the singer is shown performing in a prison in her native Kansas.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2014,4646,4714,5603],"class_list":["post-29484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-johnny-cash","tag-kansas","tag-melissa-etheridge","tag-topeka-correctional-facility"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:54:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/johnny-cash-inspired-melissa-etheridge-to-perform-in-prisons\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29486,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29484\/revisions\/29486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}