Johnny Cash → Bob Dylan

Before Johnny Cash ever sang "A Boy Named Sue," who wrote it and cut the first recording of it himself?Shel Silversteinlearned

Shel Silverstein

A Boy Named Sue · 1969 · via Johnny Cash

Shel Silverstein wrote it and put it on record himself in 1969, so this is the song in its writer's own voice. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs picked it up that same year, which tells you it didn't stay his for long.

Johnny Cash wrote "Folsom Prison Blues" and cut it himself. Which of these artists later made his own recording of it?Bob Dylanknew

Johnny Cash

Folsom Prison Blues · 1955 · via Johnny Cash

Cash wrote it and had it on record with the Tennessee Two in 1955, and in 2001 Bob Dylan took his own turn at it. Play them back to back and listen for what survives the trip.