Cash tribute band serving their time

Get Rhythm are touring Irish prisons, much as Johnny played the penitentiaries in the US, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

LAST night, the inmates at the Loughan House open prison in Blacklion, Co Cavan, were entertained by Johnny Cash tribute band, Get Rhythm.

The local eight-piece played to 150 men for more than an hour and did the ‘Man in Black’ proud. The concert was the first in a series of prison shows for the band over the next five weeks, including at Wheatfield and Mountjoy prisons.