Columbia's 30th Street Studio: Photos of Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin Come to Morrison Hotel Gallery

After three years as Sun Records most consistently top-selling performer, the outlaw country artist Johnny Cash came to Columbia Records in 1958 to record "The Fabulous Johnny Cash," the first in a long series of chart-topping iconic releases for the label. In this candid in-the-studio October, 1959 portrait of a man in black pompadour, Johnny Cash is deep in reflection, pondering the fine points of a playback, ruminating the next move in a career that would take him deep into the American cultural psyche.

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