Johnny Cash's longtime drummer is preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the singer's landmark Folsom Prison concert next weekend by returning to the famed location to perform.

W.S. (Fluke) Holland — who also played on the so-called Million Dollar Quartet session featuring Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Cash — will lead a band performing at the California prison on Sunday, the 40th anniversary of the performance that helped boost Cash's career after years of battling drug and alcohol addiction.

Johnny Cash, seen here in 1964, recorded his legendary concert at California's Folsom Prison on Jan. 13, 1968, for a summer release. It become one of his bestselling albums.
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Holland, who played with Cash from 1940 until the late 1990s, gained fame as part of the singer's backing band the Tennessee Three.

According to organizers, the concert will be attended by current inmates and feature musicians who played with Cash over the years, as well as a surprise guest vocalist.

Jonathan Holiff is producing the anniversary concert, which will be streamed online at iClips.net. His father, Saul Holiff, was a concert promoter and Cash's manager in the 1960s and early 1970s,

The production is being funded through donations, and by inmate outreach group Prison Fellowship Ministries and tourism bureaus.

On Jan. 13, 1968, Cash recorded a live concert at Folsom Prison. The resulting album — Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, released in summer 1968 — rose up both country and pop music charts, helped revitalize Cash's career and has been named among a list of the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. Cash died in 2003.