Crescent City Blues
Crescent City Blues is a song written by Gordon Jenkins in 1953 . It was released as part of the Seven Dreams suite . The suite consists partly of stories and partly of music. The narrator was Bill Lee , Spike Lee's father .
In Seven Dreams , a person dreams seven different dreams, including being a train driver. This second dream ( The Second Dream: The Conductor ) contains three songs. The last song is Crescent City Blues , sung by Beverley Maher. The song was made famous by the Johnny Cash hit Folsom Prison Blues , in which Cash took over large parts of the song and later made a compensation payment of $ 75,000 for it.
In the mid-1990s, Cash said in an interview with a Canadian magazine that he heard the song by Jenkins while serving in the Air Force in Germany and wrote the Folsom Prison Blues afterwards . When he came to Sun Records , he told Sam Phillips about it. So it is thanks to Phillips' economic calculation rather than Cash's cunning that Jenkins was not mentioned as the rightful author.