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JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2022 WHAT'S UP! 37 FEATURE PRESIDENT Brent A. Powers EDITOR Becca Martin-Brown 479-872-5054 bmartin@nwaonline.com Twitter: NWAbecca REPORTERS Monica Hooper mhooper@nwaonline.com April Wallace awallace@nwaonline.com (479) 770-3746 DESIGNER Deb Harvell ! UP WHAT'S ON THE COVER The SoNA season will be bigger than ever — literally — with an additional concert, and the orchestra will also record a full-length album this year. (COURTESY IMAGE) What's Up! is a publication of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Cash Continued From Page 9 Arkie's common-man demeanor. "He was just so down to earth and friendly," Beley told History.com in 2018. "Totally charming, a great smile. He looked like the guy next-door — someone you'd want to hang out with." "He was almost an 'aw shucks' type of guy. You couldn't ask for anyone more Arkansas, down-home, humble." Cash would record another prison concert for the "At San Quentin" album the following year, but the comeback was already complete. On the strength of the Folsom record — it would eventually sell more than 3 million copies — Cash would be offered a TV show — which ran on ABC from 1969-71 — and quickly regain his lost luster with the public. He'd continue to record — some of it awe-inspiring, some of it awful — the rest of his life. He'd be written off again in the 1980s, but Cash had one more comeback left in him, ending on a creative and critical high note with producer Rick Rubin on a string of six stunning albums collectively known as "The American Recordings," released between 1994 and 2010, seven years after Cash's death in 2003. One wonders how many parallels Cash drew between those triumphant final records and the landmark concerts at Folsom, captured in their humble glory in the current exhibition. Leftwich says one standout feature of the exhibit is the easy authenticity of what's been captured on film — Cash outside the prison gate smoking a cigarette, he and June walking across the Folsom yard, the sweat streaming down his haggard, drug-chewed cheek as he sings. If you didn't know better, you'd never guess you were looking at history in the making, to say nothing of the rebirth of one of the most important artists of the 20th century. "The shots evoke more of a candid family album, almost," Leftwich says. "It was this historical event, but it just kind of looks like it's just Johnny Cash and his friends and family doing a bunch of candid pictures that could be at any event or any concert. There's a lot of great candid moments where you just kind of see Johnny Cash being a normal person. That's what struck me about this is this isn't choreographed or staged-looking photography. These just look like candid pictures." Dan Poush, "John and June on Their First Anniversary," March 1, 1969; digital scan of original negative. Dan Poush, "Before the First Performance; Southeast Corner," Jan. 13, 1968; digital scan from original negative. Dan Poush, "Emerging from the Prison Bus," Jan. 13, 1968; digital scan from original negative. Dan Poush, "Before the First Performance; Blowing Smoke Rings," Jan. 13, 1968; digital scan from original negative. Dan Poush, "With Glen Sherley," Jan. 13, 1968; digital scan from original negative. (Photos courtesy of the John R. Cash Revocable Trust, photographed by Dan Poush)