There’s always been a touch of Johnny Cash about our own Tex Perkins. So it’s fitting that Tex will recreate The Man in Black’s famous concerts at Folsom Prison with two shows at Laverton’s Port Phillip Prison on August 31.
Tex is no stranger to Cash’s music, having sung many of his big hits in the early 80s with the Dum Dums.
”I’m an old hand at Johnny Cash. I feel like it’s my territory. In fact, ever since I have been trying not to sing like Johnny Cash,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald. ”My inner Johnny has been sitting back patiently all these years. Now I can just relax and let him out.”
It won’t have quite the same feel, but music fans on the outside can see Tex’s Johnny Cash show from September 1 to 12 at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre, and from October 14 at the Twelfth Night Theatre in Brisbane.
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