Glen Milborn Sherley was born on an Oklahoma farm in 1936. Sherley recorded his song in that chapel with the help of the chapel minister, Reverend Floyd Gressett who coincidently was a friend of Johnny Cash and the night before the concert at Folsom prison, the reverend gave Cash a copy of Sherley’s recording. Sherley’s song was about how the chapel at Folsom provided inmates with an escape from the harsh realties of life behind bars, calling it ‘a house of worship in a den of sin.’ Greystone Chapel was the work of Glen Sherley who was serving time in Folsom for the armed robbery of a bank. Of the fifteen tracks on the album, one was written by an inmate of the prison. The singer performed two shows in the prison that day and fifteen tracks from those two shows made it to the Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album which went on to become a commercial success for Cash, and something which pulled his career up from a downward spiral. Cash had his addiction under control by the time he went to Folsom New Mexico in 1968 and was determined to put his career back on track.
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