Johnny Cash, a Country Music Legend
Johnny Cash is a country music legend that made his way into the hearts of thousands of fans. From day one, Johnny Cash's fans remained true and steady.
Johnny Cash started with gospel and ended up singing his bad-boy, roughneck music around the country singing a different places...from The Grand Ole Opry to the Folsom Prison!
After many attempts, he finally got his sweet heart, June Carter, to marry him. Junes Carter's love was great enough to settle him down. They combined music and both their careers and marriage began to fly!
Here you will find Johnny Cash biography, tunes, videos, CD's and much more! All with you favorite...Johnny Cash!
Johnny Cash started with gospel and ended up singing his bad-boy, roughneck music around the country singing a different places...from The Grand Ole Opry to the Folsom Prison!
After many attempts, he finally got his sweet heart, June Carter, to marry him. Junes Carter's love was great enough to settle him down. They combined music and both their careers and marriage began to fly!
Here you will find Johnny Cash biography, tunes, videos, CD's and much more! All with you favorite...Johnny Cash!
Contents at a Glance
- Johnny Cash Biography - His Early Life
- Johnny Cash Biography- The Beginning
- Johnny Cash Biography- The Hard Times
Johnny Cash Biography - His Early Life
Johnny Cash, how it all began...
Country music patriarch Johnny Cash, the "Man in Black," has walked the line between rock and country since his early days as a rockabilly singer. Johnny Cash's songs' characteristic marching bass lines have influenced Waylon Jennings and others, while his deep, quavery baritone growl has become a trademark. A preeminent songwriter, Cash has been courted over the years by rock's elite, beginning with Dylan in the '60s. In 1994 Cash returned to the spotlight, boosted by the support of a whole new generation of fans - many of them alternative-rock aficionados - with the release of the stark (just vocals and acoustic guitar) American Recordings. Ill health slowed Cash down in the late '90s but did not stop his creative output.The son of Southern Baptist sharecroppers, Cash began playing the guitar and writing songs at age 12. During high school, he performed frequently on radio station KLCN in Blytheville, Arkansas. Cash moved to Detroit in his late teens and worked there until he joined the air force as a radio operator in Germany. He left the air force and married Vivian Liberto in 1954; the couple settled in Memphis, where Cash worked as an appliance salesman and attended radio announcers' school.
Johnny Cash Biography- The Beginning
Johnny Cash signs with Sun Records
With the Tennessee Two - guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant - he began recording for Sam Phillips' Sun label in 1955. The trio recorded "Cry, Cry, Cry" (#14 C&W, 1955), and followed it with "Folsom Prison Blues" (#5 C&W, 1956). Later in 1956 came Cash's most enduring hit, the million-seller "I Walk the Line" (#17, 1956). At Sun, he was also part of an impromptu gospel sing-along with label mates Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis that was widely bootlegged as The Million Dollar Quartet and finally released commercially in 1981 (on the U.K. label Charly). Johnny Cash Biography- The Hard Times
Johnny Cash signs with Columbia, starts his alcohol and drug abuse and is arrested...
Cash moved near Ventura, California, in 1958, signed with Columbia, and began a nine-year period of alcohol and drug abuse. He released a number of successful country and pop hits, among them "Ring of Fire" (#1 pop, #1 C&W, 1963), written by June Carter of the Carter Family and Merle Kilgore. By then, he had left his family and moved to New York's Greenwich Village. Late in 1965 Cash was arrested by customs officials for trying to smuggle amphetamines in his guitar case across the Mexican border. He got a suspended sentence and was fined. After a serious auto accident and a near fatal overdose, his wife divorced him. By then Cash had moved to Nashville, where he became friends with Waylon Jennings. Together they spent what both have described as a drug-crazed year and a half. Great Johnny Cash stuff from Amazon
Johnny Cash Biography- Johnny Meets June and Things Get Better
Johnny Cash kicks his habit, marries June Carter and has his own show...
In Nashville, Cash began a liaison with June Carter, who helped him get rid of his drug habit by 1967 and reconverted him to fundamentalist Christianity. By the time Cash and Carter married in early 1968, they had been working together regularly. They had hit duets with "Jackson" (#2 C&W, 1967), "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" (#6 C&W, 1967), and versions of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe" (#58 pop, #4 C&W, 1964) and Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" (#36 pop, #2 C&W, 1970).Cash's 1968 live album, At Folsom Prison (#13), became a million-seller in 1968. Bob Dylan invited him to sing a duet ("Girl From the North Country") and write liner notes for Nashville Skyline, and Dylan appeared in the first segment of ABC-TV's The Johnny Cash Show in June 1969. The highly rated series, which lasted two years, developed a reputation as an eclectic showcase of contemporary American music, with guests ranging from Louis Armstrong to Carl Perkins to Bob Dylan. Cash had a 1969 hit with Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue" (#2), a track from Johnny Cash at San Quentin; his best-selling album, the live LP was #1 for four weeks.
Johnny Cash Biography- Johnny Goes to the White House and Then Begins Benefit Work
Johnny Cash becomes popular at the prison....
In 1970 Cash performed at the Nixon White House. He and June Carter traveled to Israel in 1971 to make a documentary, Gospel Road Cash continued to tour and make hits through the '70s, including "A Thing Called Love" (#2 C&W, 1972) and "One Piece at a Time" (#1 C&W, 1976). He also became active in benefit work, particularly on behalf of prisoners, Native American rights, and evangelist Billy Graham's organization. Johnny Cash Biography- The Survivors & The Highwayman
Johnny hits a new beginning in his career....
In 1982 Cash regrouped with fellow surviving Million Dollar Quartet members Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis to record The Survivors. Three years later Cash hooked up with three other compadres - Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson - to form the Highwaymen, releasing Highwayman in 1985. The Highwaymen performed together sporadically throughout the late '80s and '90s, recording Highwayman 2 in 1990 and Highwaymen: The Road Goes On Forever (produced by Don Was) in 1995 Johnny Cash CD's
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The Essential Johnny Cash
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The Johnny Cash Show: The Best of Johnny Cash 1969-1971
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Johnny Cash Poster ~ Giving the Finger ~ San Quentin ~ 24x36"
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Cash: The Autobiography
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Johnny Cash Biography- Johnny Loses His Appeal
Johnny Cash's 25 year relation ship end with Columbia Records...
Cash's 25-year relationship with Columbia Records ended in the mid-'80s, and in 1986 he began a somewhat desultory liaison with Nashville's branch of Mercury Records. By the late '80s, his long streak of country hits had ended, and Cash complained to an interviewer that he'd been "purged" from Nashville, replaced by contemporary "hat acts." He continued to perform constantly, however, usually with a package tour that included his wife and her sisters Helen and Anita Carter, as well as Johnny and June's son, John Carter Cash (other Cash and Carter siblings would sometimes show up too). Throughout these years, Cash turned to acting, in a slew of Western-themed movies and TV shows. He also suffered from health problems and underwent heart surgery as well as drug treatment for an addiction to painkillers. Johnny Cash on Flickr
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Johnny Cash Biography- Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame
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Already a member of the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame (Cash has more than 400 songs to his credit) and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Cash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Also that year came the release of the critically acclaimed box set The Essential Johnny Cash. In 1993 he began his return to the forefront with a guest vocal turn on U2's Zooropa; he sang lead vocals on the darkly haunting track "The Wanderer." The following year, Cash was toasted by alt-rock audiences with the release of American Recordings, on the label by the same name, known for its rap and rock artists. Label chief Rick Rubin's production emphasized Cash's brooding, deep vocals, backed by his own simple, but rhythmic acoustic guitar. Featuring, among Cash's own compositions, covers of such artists as Nick Lowe, Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits, the album's songs veered from Cash's "Redemption" to satanic-rocker Glenn Danzig's "Thirteen." Appearing solo or backed by guitar, bass, and drums, Cash performed in several intimate venues crawling with hipsters. Though the album only reached #110 on the pop charts (#29 C&W), it received airplay on alternative-rock and college radio stations, garnering critical raves. Johnny Cash Videos
Johnny Cash Biography- The Last Few
Johnny pairs of with some great artist to push out a few last albums...
In 1996 Cash released another well-received album, Unchained, on which he was backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and covered edgy songs by the likes of Beck and Soundgarden. The album won the Best Country Album Grammy, and Cash also garnered a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy. Then, after experiencing dizziness and tremors in 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the degenerative nervous disorder Shy-Drager syndrome. He retired from the road and began treatments for his illness. In 1999 he was the subject of a televised tribute (featuring Dylan, U2, Springsteen, and others) and made his first public appearance since his diagnosis. In 2000 Cash's health seemed better, and his doctors were beginning to question if they'd made the right diagnosis. Cash released another critically acclaimed album, American III: Solitary Man, which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. (It also brought him back to Columbia, which had begun distributing the American label.) In 2002, Cash's American IV: The Man Comes Around continued his commercial success with his rendition of Nine Inch Nails's cover "Hurt." Johnny Cash T-Shirts
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Johnny Cash Biography- A Legend is Gone
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On May 15, 2003, June Carter Cash died while undergoing heart valve replacement surgery. Less than five months later on September 12, Johnny Cash succumbed to respiratory failure due to complications from his long battle with diabetes. The Cash family homestead in Hendersonville, Tennessee would last only four years longer and was then by fire in April 2007.Entire Johnny Cash Biography was by The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster)
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June Carter
As mentioned above, Johnny and June were very much in love...but who was this June Carter? What did she sing?
June Carter was another great country music singer! Find out more about her at June Carter Cash.
I Wanna Love You Like Johnny and June....
Johnny and June had unconditional love
One of the most memorable things about Johnny Cash was June Carter...one of the most memorable things about June Carter was Johnny Cash.
From the very first moment that Johnny Cash first met June he had his mind set on her, even though he was married at the time. Once his first marriage was over, he asked June many times to marry him. Countless times she told him no. And for good reason, too.
Finally, one day, while performing on stage, Johnny Cash asked June to marry him, while she blushed it off at first, she finally said yes. From that day forward, Johnny Cash and June Carter were inseparable.
The two were not only married and lived together but, they would sing together, tour together and love forever.
Their love was so strong...everyone knew it. One of the greatest signs of their love is the song Johnny and June by Heidi Newfield. Follow the link and you can watch the video, read the lyrics and much more!
It's a song everyone should hear! As we can all relate to it at one point in our life!
Walk the Line
Walk the Line is one of my all-time favorite movies!
Whether you like country music or not the award winning movie is incredible. With Joaquine Pheonix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter this movie makes for a great music story, love story and one of those "can't see it too many times" movies!
You watch trailers and much more at Walk the Line- The Johnny Cash Movie
Johnny Cash Albums
Johnny Cash Discography
Johnny Cash has so many albums and singles that it instead of listing them all here, I decided to list the link for the Johnny Cash Discography on Wikipedia.The list is so huge that it's easier to read in their format.
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Johnny Cash at a Glance
Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 ? September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll (especially early in his career), as well as blues, folk and gospel.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice, the "chicka-boom" freight train sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his demeanor, and his dark clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally sta...
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