Johnny Cash, Unique Country Music Star

I'm making this page about Johnny Cash, unique country music star because, although I'm not a great fan of country music as such (most country singers sound like they're singing through their nose and the words are usually about beer or adultery), yet Johnny Cash stands out head and shoulders above the rest as a unique country music singer, for several reasons:

 1) His unique voice (basso profound, the only country singer with a voice that low) He even sound good just talking, which is why some of his albums, including my pick for his best have talking on them

. 2) His unique singing style (straight forward, sometimes half-talking.)

 3) His unique song writing talent and career and  his unique choice of material both to write about to sing about from other writers. Some of Johnny Cash's songs are more like folk songs. Many have a historical basis. At any rate, none are about booze or adulterous relationships or break-ups. And much of his material is gospel related, which brings me to the 4th and most important point:

 4) His unique life story. (Check out the books in the list below.) Basically,according to Dan rather in the first DVD spotlight below ("Get the full story...), Johnny Cash had passionately wanted to record gospel music from the start (so perhaps he had accepted Jesus at an early age [see the pole module below]), but Stan Phillips at Sun records refused, since he thought it wouldn't be commercial and thus Johnny Cash started recording more folk/country like songs. After he started to gain some fame as a singer apparently, Johnny Cash's life started going downhill, with drugs and booze until he met the love of his life, June Carter. She re-introduced him to Jesus Christ and then and there Johnny Cash either accepted Him for the first time or re-dedicated his life to Christ and was completely changed. [Please vote for which one you think it was in the pole module below.] June helped Johnny get off of the drugs and booze and he became more passionate about singing gospel songs and insisted on making some gospel albums and also began writing gospel songs (see the module on his gospel albums below.). He even wrote, directed and narrated his own movie on the life of Jesus, called "The Gospel Road" (see 2nd Amazon spotlight module.)