Is stardom a prison for pop singers? Not for Brandi Carlile, whose raucous version of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" is a liberating anthem. Saturday night at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, the Maple Valley, Wash., singer-songwriter kicked off her encore with Cash's "Jackson" and "Folsom Prison Blues," turning a capacity, hometown audience into a seething, hand-clapping prison riot. "Folsom" wa
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