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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-24 · 30 entries checked · 10 flagged · 26 issues confirmed · 10 corrected · 16 still open
Johnny Cash — The album was certified 2× Platinum on December 14, 2005, not 2006.
Johnny Cash — The UK version titled Ring of Fire: The Legend of Johnny Cash does include covers of U2's 'One' and Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus'.
Sam Phillips — 'Folsom Prison Blues' reached No. 4 in March 1956, but it actually reached No. 4 in April 1956.
Marshall Grant — Marshall Grant was born in Lattimore, North Carolina, not Bessemer City.
Marshall Grant — Grant and his wife had two sons, Randy and Gary, not one.
Kris Kristofferson — The Newport Folk Festival in 1970 did not feature Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson; Cash performed at the 1969 Newport Folk Festival, and Kristofferson's breakthrough festival appearance was at the 1969 Newport Folk Festival (where Cash introduced him), not 1
Kris Kristofferson — Kristofferson's debut album *Kristofferson* (also known as *Me and Bobby McGee*) was released in August 1970, not June 1970.
The Tennessee Three Years — The entry states the era started in the 'Late 1950s', but the Tennessee Three name and lineup (with W.S. Holland) did not fully solidify until 1960; Holland joined in 1960, replacing the earlier drummer.
June Carter Cash — The entry states June Carter first appeared professionally in the 1950s with Johnny Cash, but she actually first appeared in the 1930s/1940s with her family.
June Carter Cash — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section says she revived the Aunt Polly character for the 1976 series 'Johnny Cash & Friends', but the character was performed on 'The Johnny Cash Show' (1969–1971), not that 1976 series.
Working Class Solidarity — The album *My Mother's Hymn Book* was released in 2004, but the recording of 'I Shall Not Be Moved' on that album was actually recorded in 1972, not newly recorded in 2004.
Working Class Solidarity — The claim that the song 'I Shall Not Be Moved' is 'one of the oldest American protest songs' is misleading; its specific use as a labor and civil rights anthem developed later, and it is not universally classified as one of the oldest protest songs.
Folsom Prison Blues — The song was written in 1953 is incorrect; Cash wrote it in 1951 while in the Air Force in Germany, and the movie *Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison* was released in 1951, not 1953.
Folsom Prison Blues — The claim that the live single peaked at number one on the Hot Country Singles chart is incorrect; the live version of 'Folsom Prison Blues' peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1968 (not 1969), and the album *At Folsom Prison* re
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