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title: Johnny Cash

text: many ways spiraling out of control, Cash could still deliver hits due to his frenetic creativity. His rendition of "Ring of Fire" was a crossover hit, reaching number one on the country charts and entering the top 20 on the pop charts. It was originally performed by June's sister, but the signature mariachi-style horn arrangement was provided by Cash. He said that it had come to him in a dream. Vivian Liberto claimed a different version of the origins of "Ring of Fire". In her book, "I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny", Liberto says that Cash gave Carter

title: Rosanne Cash

text: Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country musician Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife. Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues, and most notably Americana. In the 1980s, she had a string of chart-topping singles, which crossed musical genres and landed on both the country and pop charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit "Seven Year Ache", which topped the U.S. country singles charts and

title: Johnny Cash Country Christmas

text: Johnny Cash Country Christmas Johnny Cash Country Christmas is a Christmas album and 78th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Laserlight Digital in 1991 (see 1991 in music), in-between Cash's contracts with Mercury Records and American Recordings. Four tracks do not feature Cash but instead feature vocals by his wife, June Carter Cash and the Carter Family. This was the last Johnny Cash release within his lifetime to feature Carter Family, who had been a staple of his live show and studio recordings since the early 1960s. The sisters would not participate in his upcoming work

title: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

text: America) Hello, I'm Johnny Cash Hello, I'm Johnny Cash is the 33rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1970 (see 1970 in music). "If I Were a Carpenter", a famous duet with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, earned the couple a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1971 (see Grammy Awards of 1971); the song also reached No. 2 on the Country charts. This album also includes "To Beat the Devil", the first Kris Kristofferson song covered by Cash; the two would later collaborate numerous times,

title: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

text: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash Hello, I'm Johnny Cash is the 33rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1970 (see 1970 in music). "If I Were a Carpenter", a famous duet with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, earned the couple a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1971 (see Grammy Awards of 1971); the song also reached No. 2 on the Country charts. This album also includes "To Beat the Devil", the first Kris Kristofferson song covered by Cash; the two would later collaborate numerous times, most

title: Johnny Cash

text: does not hold back any details about the darker side of Johnny Cash and includes details about his affair with his pregnant wife June Carter's sister. Cash received multiple Country Music Association Awards, Grammys, and other awards, in categories ranging from vocal and spoken performances to album notes and videos. In a career that spanned almost five decades, during which he rose to recording industry icon status, Cash was the personification of country music to many people around the world. Cash was a musician who was not defined by a single genre. He recorded songs that could be considered rock

title: Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden

text: Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden is a 1969 recording of a Johnny Cash concert at Madison Square Garden. It was released in 2002. The album featured Cash and other musicians and singers including W.S. Holland, Marshall Grant, Bob Wootton, the Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, Tommy Cash and the Carter Family. Noticeably absent from the show was Cash's wife June Carter Cash, who was home pregnant with their son John Carter Cash, a fact referenced during the recording. As with most Cash shows, the genres covered ran the gamut from country music to rockabilly

title: The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)

text: The Johnny Cash Show (TV series) The Johnny Cash Show is an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970. Cash opened each show, invariably preceding the first number with his customary "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The

title: Johnny Cash

text: performance in Arkansas in 1989, Johnny Cash spoke to attendees of his commitment to the salvation of drug dealers and alcoholics. He then sang, "Family Bible". He made a spoken-word recording of the entire New King James Version of the New Testament. Cash declared he was "the biggest sinner of them all", and viewed himself overall as a complicated and contradictory man. Accordingly, Cash is said to have "contained multitudes," and has been deemed "the philosopher-prince of American country music." Cash is credited with having converted actor and singer John Schneider to Christianity. Cash's daughter Rosanne (by first wife Vivian

title: Johnny Cash

text: also recorded humorous numbers like "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson" (followed by many further duets after their wedding); and railroad songs including "Hey, Porter", "Orange Blossom Special", and "Rock Island Line". During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden. Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree ("née" Rivers). He was the fourth of seven children, who

title: Johnny Cash

text: writes about a reporter, who interested in Cash's religious beliefs, questions whether the book is written from a Baptist, Catholic, or Jewish perspective. Cash denies an answer to the book's view and his own, and replies, "I'm a Christian. Don't put me in another box." In the mid-1970s, Cash and his wife, June, completed a course of study in the Bible through Christian International Bible College. Cash often performed at Billy Graham Crusades. At a Tallahassee Crusade in 1986, June and Johnny sang his song, "One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul." At a notable

title: The Johnny Cash Family Christmas

text: be featured on all four Johnny Cash Christmas albums). June Carter Cash, Marshall Grant, Tommy Cash, Harold Reid, Larry Butler (who was both Cash's piano player and record producer at this time), Maybelle Carter, Anita Carter, Carl Perkins and Lew DeWitt are among those featured on the album. The Johnny Cash Family Christmas The Johnny Cash Family Christmas is the 41st overall and second Christmas album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972. It is his second Christmas album, the first one being the 1963 release entitled "The Christmas Spirit". The album includes less original Cash

title: Johnny Cash Country Christmas

text: is unconfirmed whether these tracks are new recordings or any of the previous versions Cash recorded for Sun Records, Columbia Records or Mercury as "I Walk the Line" had previously been recorded for all three labels and "Ring of Fire" for the latter two. Johnny Cash Country Christmas Johnny Cash Country Christmas is a Christmas album and 78th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Laserlight Digital in 1991 (see 1991 in music), in-between Cash's contracts with Mercury Records and American Recordings. Four tracks do not feature Cash but instead feature vocals by his wife, June Carter

title: Johnny Cash albums discography

text: on U2's "Zooropa" album led to a meeting with producer Rick Rubin and ultimately resulted in the American Recordings series of albums, which feature many collaborations. The band Coldplay had intended to record the song "Til Kingdom Come" from "X&Y" with Cash, but he died before they could. The song is dedicated to Cash on the album and on their "Twisted Logic Tour" where they also perform "Ring of Fire." Johnny Cash albums discography The Johnny Cash albums discography chronicles the output of one of the most prolific recorded music artists of all time, singer Johnny Cash. His lengthy career,

title: Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden

text: Johnny Cash Show" was in production and a popular TV series; its weekly "Come Along and Ride This Train" segment is referenced in the introduction to "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow." Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden is a 1969 recording of a Johnny Cash concert at Madison Square Garden. It was released in 2002. The album featured Cash and other musicians and singers including W.S. Holland, Marshall Grant, Bob Wootton, the Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, Tommy Cash and the Carter Family. Noticeably absent from the show was Cash's wife June Carter

title: Hymns by Johnny Cash

text: and is an example of traditional hymns set to country gospel music. The album was recorded simultaneously with "The Fabulous Johnny Cash". Musicians Additional personnel Hymns by Johnny Cash Hymns by Johnny Cash was the fifth album and first gospel album of Johnny Cash. The album was produced in 1958 and was then officially released in 1959. An alternate version of the song "It was Jesus" was an added bonus track after the album was re-issued in 2002. Cash said he left Sun Records because Sam Phillips wouldn't let him record the gospel songs he'd grown up with. Columbia promised

title: Johnny Cash

text: Johnny Cash and explores the New Deal programs that shaped his childhood in Dyess. The festival includes a concert in the field adjacent to the Cash home and Arkansas roots music in the Colony Circle. On February 8, 2018, the album "Forever Words" was announced, putting music to poems that Cash had written and which were published in book form in 2016. Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2018, as "Farm No. 266, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home." Country singer Mark Collie portrayed Cash in John Lloyd Miller's award-winning

title: Hymns by Johnny Cash

text: Hymns by Johnny Cash Hymns by Johnny Cash was the fifth album and first gospel album of Johnny Cash. The album was produced in 1958 and was then officially released in 1959. An alternate version of the song "It was Jesus" was an added bonus track after the album was re-issued in 2002. Cash said he left Sun Records because Sam Phillips wouldn't let him record the gospel songs he'd grown up with. Columbia promised him to release an occasional gospel album; this was a success for him to record. The album was Cash’s first and most popular gospel album,

title: Johnny Cash

text: years, but relapsed again. By 1989, he was dependent and entered Nashville's Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. In 1992, he entered the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center in Loma Linda, California, for his final rehabilitation treatment. (Several months later, his son followed him into this facility for treatment). Cash began performing concerts at prisons starting in the late 1950s. He played his first famous prison concert on January 1, 1958, at San Quentin State Prison. These performances led to a pair of highly successful live albums, "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" (1968) and "Johnny Cash at San Quentin"

title: The Legend of Johnny Cash

text: Gold on December 7, 2005, Platinum on December 14, 2005 and 2x Platinum on May 19, 2006 by the RIAA. As of November 2017, the album has sold 3,724,100 copies in the United States. A version released in the UK entitled "Ring of Fire: The Legend of Johnny Cash" has a slightly altered track listing, with some of the above songs absent and others, such as covers of U2's "One" and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus", included in their place. The Legend of Johnny Cash The Legend of Johnny Cash is a single-disc compilation album of American musician and singer Johnny

title: Johnny Cash (song)

text: Johnny Cash (song) "Johnny Cash" is a song co-written by John Rich, Vicky McGehee and Rodney Clawson. It was originally recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 2005 "Greatest Hits" album, but not released as a single. The song was covered by American country music artist Jason Aldean, and his version was released as the first single from his 2007 album "Relentless" and the fourth single of his career. Aldean's version also became his fourth (consecutive) Top 10 hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart with a peak at number 6. "Johnny Cash" is an up-tempo song in which

title: The Essential Johnny Cash (2002 album)

text: rock, and other modern musics and his wide fan base, the liner notes feature testimonials and 70th birthday greetings from a wide array of artists – from friends and collaborators like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty, ex-stepson-in-law Nick Lowe, and wife June Carter Cash, and also from Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, and Henry Rollins. The Essential Johnny Cash (2002 album) The Essential Johnny Cash is a double-compact disc compilation by Johnny Cash released as part of Sony BMG's "Essential" series. It was compiled to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. It

title: The Johnny Cash Children's Album

text: "I Got a Boy (And His Name is John)" was first made available on the 1972 album "International Superstar". It is a tongue-in-cheek duet between Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, about their son, John Carter Cash. "The Johnny Cash Children's Album" was reissued in 2006 through Legacy Recordings, with four bonus tracks, including Henry Clay Work's "My Grandfather's Clock". An early version of "My Grandfather's Clock" was recorded in 1958 and is available on "Songs of Our Soil". The song "Old Shep" was also re-released on the 2005 box set "The Legend". Note: "My Grandfather's Clock" was recorded

title: Johnny Cash

text: a River", said in his acceptance speech: "This is a travesty! I demand a recount. My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash, and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight." Johnny Cash Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. This

title: The Unissued Johnny Cash

text: except where noted. The Unissued Johnny Cash The Unissued Johnny Cash is a compilation album and 59th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Bear Family Records in 1978 (see 1978 in music). It is tailored to completist fans of Cash as it consists entirely of rare or unreleased material from Cash's early Columbia days. The first four tracks, all recorded in August, 1958, are outtakes from "The Fabulous Johnny Cash", and also appear on the CD re-release of that album. Likewise, the outtake "The Fable of Willie Brown" appears on the re-release of "Ride This Train".

title: The Unissued Johnny Cash

text: The Unissued Johnny Cash The Unissued Johnny Cash is a compilation album and 59th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Bear Family Records in 1978 (see 1978 in music). It is tailored to completist fans of Cash as it consists entirely of rare or unreleased material from Cash's early Columbia days. The first four tracks, all recorded in August, 1958, are outtakes from "The Fabulous Johnny Cash", and also appear on the CD re-release of that album. Likewise, the outtake "The Fable of Willie Brown" appears on the re-release of "Ride This Train". The Carter Family

title: Johnny Cash

text: nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1971. Cash had met with Dylan in the mid-1960s and became closer friends when they were neighbors in the late 1960s in Woodstock, New York. Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Cash sang a duet with Dylan on Dylan's country album "Nashville Skyline" and also wrote the album's Grammy-winning liner notes. Another artist who received a major career boost from "The Johnny Cash Show" was Kris Kristofferson, who was beginning to make a name for himself as a singer-songwriter. During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin'

title: Johnny Cash

text: not properly marketing him (he was "invisible" during that time, as he said in his autobiography). In 1984, Cash released a self-parody recording titled "Chicken in Black" about Cash's brain being transplanted into a chicken and Cash receiving a bank robber's brain in return. Biographer Robert Hilburn, in the 2013-published "Johnny Cash: The Life", disputes the claim made that Cash chose to record an intentionally poor song in protest of Columbia's treatment of him. On the contrary, Hilburn writes, it was Columbia that presented Cash with the song, which Cash – who had previously scored major chart hits with comedic

title: The Fabulous Johnny Cash

text: The Fabulous Johnny Cash The Fabulous Johnny Cash is the third studio album by American country singer, Johnny Cash. It was released on November 3, 1958 by Columbia Records, not long after Cash's departure from Sun Records, and was re-issued in 2002 by Sony Music's Legacy imprint. The re-issue contains six bonus tracks and unedited versions of the songs. Legacy Records reissued the album in 180 gram vinyl for Record Store Day in November 23, 2012. The album features five tracks written by Cash and backing vocal performances by The Jordanaires (who at this time were also regulars on Elvis

title: Now Here's Johnny Cash

text: of Cash's first major hits for the label from 1955, appeared on album for the first time. It was later re-issued in 2003 (see 2003 in music), under the label Varèse Sarabande, with five bonus tracks. In 2007 it was re-released with "Greatest!" on one CD. Additional personnel Singles - Billboard (North America) Now Here's Johnny Cash Now Here's Johnny Cash is the tenth album by musician Johnny Cash. Released on Sun Records on 21 October 1961 (see 1961 in music), the album consists primarily of Sun recordings that had yet to appear on album, though some tracks like "Cry!

title: Johnny Cash

text: Johnny Cash Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of

title: Johnny Cash Sun Records discography

text: Johnny Cash Sun Records discography The Johnny Cash Sun Records discography details the music recorded by country music legend Johnny Cash and released on Sun Records. From late 1954 to July, 1958, Cash recorded for Sun Records, a label founded by Sam Phillips and located at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Despite making his final recordings for Sun in 1958 and subsequently moving to Columbia Records, Phillips amassed sufficient backlog to continue to release new material by Cash in single and album format until as late as 1964. Cash was the first Sun artist to release an LP The following

title: Johnny Cash

text: a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Roseanne Cash. Along the trail, eight larger-than-life public art pieces will tell the story of Johnny Cash, his connection to Folsom Prison, and his epic musical career. The Johnny Cash Trail features art selected by a committee that included Cindy Cash, a Legacy Park, and over of multiuse class-I bike trail. The artists responsible for the sculptures are Sacramento-based Romo Studios, LLC and the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt Amrany, from Illinois. In 2015, a new species of black tarantula was identified near Folsom Prison and named "Aphonopelma johnnycashi" in his honor. In

title: Unearthed (Johnny Cash album)

text: Unearthed (Johnny Cash album) Unearthed is a box set by Johnny Cash, released two months after his 2003 death. It was produced by Rick Rubin and released by American Recordings. The first three discs feature outtakes and alternate versions of songs recorded for "American Recordings", "American II: Unchained", "" and "". The fourth disc, "My Mother's Hymn Book" features gospel songs Cash first learned from his mother as a child and was later reissued as a standalone album in 2004. The final disc is a best of distillation of the first four American albums. Rock historian Graeme Thomson in his

title: Johnny Cash Museum

text: Johnny Cash Museum The Johnny Cash Museum opened in April 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, to honor the life and music of the country superstar often referred to as the "Man in Black". It houses the world's largest collection of Johnny Cash memorabilia and artifacts, including a stone wall taken from his lake house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and is officially authorized by Cash's estate. Born in 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, Johnny Cash is one of the bestselling recording artists of all time. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote and recorded music in a lot of different styles, including country, rockabilly, gospel, blues,

title: Johnny Cash

text: by Shannon and Bill Miller, opened April 26, 2013, in downtown Nashville. On November 2–4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival was held in Starkville, Mississippi, where Cash had been arrested more than 40 years earlier and held overnight at the city jail on May 11, 1965. The incident inspired Cash to write the song "Starkville City Jail". The festival, where he was offered a symbolic posthumous pardon, honored Cash's life and music, and was expected to become an annual event. JC Unit One, Johnny Cash's private tour bus from 1980 until 2003, was put on exhibit at the

title: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

text: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are an Americana/alternative country band led by singer and songwriter Mark Stuart. The band formed in San Diego, California in 1995. They received permission to use Johnny Cash's name by Cash himself and were then personally invited to record songs for their first CD "Walk Alone" at Cash's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash have opened for Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson at his annual 4th of July concert, and shared the stage with such notables as Buck Owens, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, George Jones, and

title: Johnny Cash

text: against the mainstream of country music in the 1950s, which was dominated by the image of the righteous cowboy who simply makes the native's soil his own. In 1964, coming off the chart success of his previous album "I Walk The Line", he recorded the aforementioned album "". "We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited", a documentary by Antonino D'Ambrosio (author of" A Heartland and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears") tells the story of Johnny Cash's controversial concept album "Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian", covering the struggles of Native Americans. The film's

title: Johnny Cash

text: and 1994 studio album "American Recordings" at No. 88 and No. 366 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The main street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Highway 31E, is known as "Johnny Cash Parkway". The Johnny Cash Museum, located in one of Cash's properties in Hendersonville until 2006, dubbed the House of Cash, was sold based on Cash's will. Prior to this, having been closed for a number of years, the museum had been featured in Cash's music video for "Hurt". The house subsequently burned down during the renovation by the new owner. A new museum, founded

title: Johnny Cash (song)

text: a melody, with Aldean yelling through most of the record as if he’s straining to be heard over the loud production." The music video takes place in places around Las Vegas, and features Jason Aldean and his band playing. The video was directed by Wes Edwards. The song was also featured in the soundtrack to the video game "NASCAR 08". "Johnny Cash" debuted at number 44 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart for the week of February 17, 2007. Johnny Cash (song) "Johnny Cash" is a song co-written by John Rich, Vicky McGehee and Rodney Clawson. It was

title: Heroes (Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings album)

text: Heroes (Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings album) Heroes is an album by country singers Johnny Cash (his 72nd overall album release) and Waylon Jennings, released on Columbia Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Cash and Jennings first met in the mid sixties. Cash, who had fallen in love with June Carter but could not move in with her because her divorce was not final, rented a one-bedroom apartment in Madison so he could be close to her (the period is documented in the Cash biopic "Walk the Line", with Waylon played by his son Shooter Jennings). "It was like

title: The Johnny Cash Family Christmas

text: The Johnny Cash Family Christmas The Johnny Cash Family Christmas is the 41st overall and second Christmas album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972. It is his second Christmas album, the first one being the 1963 release entitled "The Christmas Spirit". The album includes less original Cash material than its predecessor and contains narrations and dialogue featuring his family and friends, between tracks. In all, three songs were written or co-written by Cash, while two, "Christmas as I Knew It" and "Silent Night", had been featured on "The Christmas Spirit" ("Silent Night" would, in fact,

title: Unchained (Johnny Cash album)

text: Unchained (Johnny Cash album) Unchained, also known as American II: Unchained, is the second album in Johnny Cash's American Recordings series (and his 82nd overall). It was released on November 5, 1996, by American Recordings. Like all of Cash's albums for American Recordings, "Unchained" was produced by Rick Rubin. The album received a Grammy for Best Country Album and Cash was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his version of "Rusty Cage". In contrast to the "first album" – on which Cash played alone – he is backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. There are guest appearances

title: Johnny Cash albums discography

text: Johnny Cash albums discography The Johnny Cash albums discography chronicles the output of one of the most prolific recorded music artists of all time, singer Johnny Cash. His lengthy career, spanning 1954 to 2003, included the release of 96 albums on several record labels. Over the years, Cash also collaborated with many of the industry's most notable artists, and received many awards and accolades from different organizations. Johnny Cash famously collaborated with many people over his long career, including family members, friends, members of the country music establishment, and, especially towards the end of his career, popular rock and alternative

title: The Legend of Johnny Cash

text: The Legend of Johnny Cash The Legend of Johnny Cash is a single-disc compilation album of American musician and singer Johnny Cash's career. It is the first such album to contain material from Cash’s American Recordings era in addition to songs from his time at Sun and Columbia, as well as one track recorded for Island Records. It was released on October 25, 2005 on the Island/American/Columbia/Legacy record labels and tied to the release of the Cash biopic "Walk the Line". In the wake of that film's success its sales made the compilation an overwhelming success. The album was certified

title: Johnny Cash

text: 2016, the Nashville Sounds Minor League Baseball team added the "Country Legends Race" to its between-innings entertainment. At the middle of the fifth inning, people in oversized foam caricature costumes depicting Cash, as well as George Jones, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton, race around the warning track at First Tennessee Park from center field to the home plate side of the first base dugout. The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival was held in Dyess, Arkansas, on October 19–21, 2017. It will build on the music festival held for four years on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro. The festival honors

title: Johnny Cash

text: the genre have been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Cash received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996 and stated that his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 was his greatest professional achievement. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. "Hurt" was nominated for six VMAs at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. The only VMA the video won was that for Best Cinematography. With the video, Johnny Cash became the oldest artist ever nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. Justin Timberlake, who won Best Video that year for "Cry Me

title: Johnny Cash

text: Johnny Cash Trailer Park. Johnny's drinking led to several run-ins with local law enforcement. Liberto later said that she had filed for divorce in 1966 because of Cash's severe drug and alcohol abuse, as well as constant touring, affairs with other women, and his close relationship with June Carter. Their four daughters were then raised by their mother. Cash met singer June Carter, of the famed Carter Family while on tour, and the two became infatuated with each other. In 1968, 13 years after they first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Cash proposed to June, during a live

text: and the overall production. Co-produced by Chips Moman, and with Cash and Jennings at the top of their game (and so good at what they do that they make it sound easy), there's not a weak point anywhere here." Heroes (Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings album) Heroes is an album by country singers Johnny Cash (his 72nd overall album release) and Waylon Jennings, released on Columbia Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Cash and Jennings first met in the mid sixties. Cash, who had fallen in love with June Carter but could not move in with her because her

title: Johnny Cash Museum

text: according to "National Geographic (Worldwide)" and is one of the Top 10 Best Attractions in Nashville according to "USA Today". Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore – a Tennessee native – called it a "world-class museum, a major tourist attraction, and a major tourist destination for the millions of people that love Johnny Cash – a world class collection." Additional published recognition by media sources include: Johnny Cash Museum The Johnny Cash Museum opened in April 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, to honor the life and music of the country superstar often referred to as the "Man in Black". It houses

title: Now Here's Johnny Cash

text: Now Here's Johnny Cash Now Here's Johnny Cash is the tenth album by musician Johnny Cash. Released on Sun Records on 21 October 1961 (see 1961 in music), the album consists primarily of Sun recordings that had yet to appear on album, though some tracks like "Cry! Cry! Cry!" had appeared on LP before. At this time, Cash had been recording for Columbia Records for three years, but Sun had amassed sufficient backlog of recordings that it was able to continue to release new singles and albums with at least partial new material into the early 1960s. "Hey Porter", one

title: Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town

text: Hank Williams Came to Town", peaked at #43. "Ballad of Barbara" is a rerecording of a track that had been a hit single for Cash in the early 1970s. A number of tracks left over from the album's recording sessions would later surface on Cash's final Mercury album, "The Mystery of Life", released in 1991. Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is the 73rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987, and his first for Mercury Records. It was re-released in 2003, paired with "Boom Chicka Boom" on a single CD.

title: Johnny Cash

text: album charts. Later, on "The Johnny Cash Show", he continued telling stories of Native-American plight, both in song and through short films, such as the history of the Trail of Tears. In 1966, in response to his activism, the singer was adopted by the Seneca Nation's Turtle Clan. He performed benefits in 1968 at the Rosebud Reservation, close to the historical landmark of the massacre at Wounded Knee, to raise money to help build a school. He also played at the D-Q University in the 1980s. Johnny Cash used his stardom and economic status to bring awareness to the issues

title: Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (Johnny Cash album)

text: Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (Johnny Cash album) Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 is a greatest hits compilation by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1978 (see 1978 in music). It is the third and last part of the Johnny Cash "Greatest Hits" compilation series; the previous parts, "Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" and "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2", had been released in 1967 and 1971, respectively. The release is notable in that it contains two songs - "It's All Over" and "Old Time Feeling," - which hadn't appeared on any Johnny Cash album before. "It's All Over" was first released

title: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

text: Steve Earle. Their music has recently found more exposure on the HBO hit television series "True Blood" and "Joan of Arcadia", and their four albums have all spent time at the top of the worldwide Americana charts. Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are an Americana/alternative country band led by singer and songwriter Mark Stuart. The band formed in San Diego, California in 1995. They received permission to use Johnny Cash's name by Cash himself and were then personally invited to record songs for their first CD "Walk Alone" at Cash's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The

title: Silver (Johnny Cash album)

text: Silver (Johnny Cash album) Silver is the 62nd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1979. It peaked at #28 on the "Billboard" albums chart. "" peaked at #2 on the singles chart; the two other singles, "Bull Rider" and "I'll Say It's True", reached #66 and #42, respectively. Recordings of "Cocaine Blues" had previously appeared on "At Folsom Prison" and "Now, There Was a Song!", under the title "Transfusion Blues" on the latter. The album was produced by Brian Ahern, who controversially introduced digital elements into the songs to the disapproval of some listeners.

title: The Fabulous Johnny Cash

text: You" in a different arrangement and released as a single in 1959 (US Country #15), also found as a bonus track on his 1959 album "Songs of Our Soil". ∗∗ These songs remained unissued in the U.S. until 2002 Musicians Additional personnel Album - Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (North America) The Fabulous Johnny Cash The Fabulous Johnny Cash is the third studio album by American country singer, Johnny Cash. It was released on November 3, 1958 by Columbia Records, not long after Cash's departure from Sun Records, and was re-issued in 2002 by Sony Music's Legacy imprint. The

title: Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town

text: Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is the 73rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987, and his first for Mercury Records. It was re-released in 2003, paired with "Boom Chicka Boom" on a single CD. "Sixteen Tons" was previously a hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Big Light" is an Elvis Costello song from his album "King of America", released the previous year and "Let Him Roll" is from Guy Clark's debut, "Old No. 1". The album reached #36 on the country charts, while the only released single, "The Night

title: Johnny Cash Sun Records discography

text: are the singles released by Sun Records. Cash left Sun for Columbia in July, 1958. Sun continued to release singles through 1964. Between September 1, 1954 and July 17, 1958, Cash recorded several sessions at Memphis Sun Studios. The Sun singles and albums were recorded at the sessions described below; "master" indicates which take of a song was used for singles and albums. This list is valuable information, so any scholar may understand what it means. Johnny Cash Sun Records discography The Johnny Cash Sun Records discography details the music recorded by country music legend Johnny Cash and released on

title: The Sound of Johnny Cash

text: The Sound of Johnny Cash The Sound of Johnny Cash is the twelfth album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover which reached No. 8 on the Country charts, and "Delia's Gone", which Cash would re-record years later, on "American Recordings", in 1994. Cash would also go on to record a significantly slower, more ballad-like version of "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on "" as the last track on the album. During the recording

title: The Essential Johnny Cash (2002 album)

text: The Essential Johnny Cash (2002 album) The Essential Johnny Cash is a double-compact disc compilation by Johnny Cash released as part of Sony BMG's "Essential" series. It was compiled to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. It is not to be confused with the three-CD box set of the same name released by Columbia Records in 1992. The double album concentrates mainly on Cash's first 15 years as a recording artist with Sun Records and Columbia, contains only eight post-1970 selections, and no selections from Cash's work with Rick Rubin for American Recordings: Cash's final hit single, a cover of Nine Inch

title: Johnny Cash

text: surrounding the Native American people. Cash sang songs about indigenous humanity in an effort to confront the U.S. government. Many non-Native Americans stayed away from singing about these things. In 1970, Cash recorded a reading of John G. Burnett's 1890 80th-birthday essay on Cherokee removal for the Historical Landmarks Association (Nashville). From June 1969 to March 1971, Cash starred in his own television show, "The Johnny Cash Show", on the ABC network. Produced by Screen Gems, the show was performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The Statler Brothers opened up for him in every episode; the Carter Family and

title: Johnny Cash

text: Great Depression inspired many of his songs, especially those about other people facing similar difficulties. He had sympathy for the poor and working class. Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack. In May 1944, Jack was pulled into an unguarded table saw at his high school and was almost cut in two. He suffered for more than a week before dying on May 20, 1944, at the age of 15. Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. According to "Cash: The Autobiography", his father was away that morning, but Johnny and his mother,

title: Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash

text: Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash is the sixteenth album in total by the singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1963 (see 1963 in music). This album collects tracks from singles and an EP released between 1959 and 1963, Cash's first years on the Columbia label, and marked the first release of these tracks in LP format, with the exception of "I Still Miss Someone," which had previously appeared on the 1958 album "The Fabulous Johnny Cash". "Ring of Fire", one of Cash's most famous tracks, made its

title: The Johnny Cash Children's Album

text: The Johnny Cash Children's Album The Johnny Cash Children's Album is the 49th album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1975 featuring recordings made between January 1972 and October 1973. As the title implies, it contains songs written for children. Among others, this includes "Tiger Whitehead", a song later released in an acoustic version on Cash's posthumous "Personal File" album in 2006. Most of the songs on the album had not been performed by Cash before. "Old Shep" had been performed by Elvis Presley, among others. One track recorded in 1972 was previously released on LP:

title: Unearthed (Johnny Cash album)

text: for "The Survivors Live" (1982). Several other songs, such as track 13, had been performed by Cash on TV or live in concert, but formal studio recordings had not yet been issued until now. Although the images used on the standalone CD depict Cash near the end of his life, most of the recordings on "My Mother's Hymn Book" actually date to Cash's early sessions for American in 1993-1994 (hence the fact they only feature Cash performing by himself). Adapted from the album liner notes. Unearthed (Johnny Cash album) Unearthed is a box set by Johnny Cash, released two months

title: Johnny Cash

text: become the Apostle Paul. He recorded "Johnny Cash Reads The Complete New Testament" in 1990. After Columbia Records dropped Cash from his recording contract, he had a short and unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records from 1987 to 1991. During this time, he recorded an album of new versions of some of his best-known Sun and Columbia hits, as well as "Water from the Wells of Home", a duets album that paired him with, among others, his children Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash, as well as Paul McCartney. A one-off Christmas album recorded for Delta Records followed his Mercury contract.

title: Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash

text: first LP appearance here. "Ring of Fire" was the first #1 album when Billboard debuted their Country Album Chart on January 11, 1964. It was certified Gold on February 11, 1965 by the RIAA, earning him his first Gold LP. It stands as the only Columbia "greatest hits" collection to be included in the "" box set. Album - Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (North America) Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash is the sixteenth album in total by the singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1963

title: Johnny Cash

text: the Johnny Cash Memorial Fund in his memory. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Diessen, at the Ammersee Lake in Southern Germany, near where he was stationed as a GI, and with the SOS village in Barrett Town, by Montego Bay, near his holiday home in Jamaica. In 1999, Cash received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, "Rolling Stone" ranked Cash number 31 on their "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list and No. 21 on their "100 Greatest Singers" list in 2010. In 2012, "Rolling Stone" ranked Cash's 1968 live album "At Folsom Prison"

title: Johnny Cash

text: performance in London, Ontario. The couple married on March 1, 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky. They had one child together, John Carter Cash, born March 3, 1970. He was the only son for both Johnny and June. Cash and Carter continued to work, raise their child, create music, and tour together for 35 years until June's death in May 2003. Throughout their marriage, June attempted to keep Cash off of amphetamines, often taking his drugs and flushing them down the toilet. June remained with him even throughout his multiple admissions for rehabilitation treatment and years of drug abuse. After June's death,

title: Rosanne Cash

text: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Cash was also an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards' judging panel to support independent artists. In 2005, Legacy Recordings reissued "Seven Year Ache" (1981), "King's Record Shop" (1987), and "Interiors" (1990), plus a new collection spanning 1979–2003, "The Very Best of Rosanne Cash". In 2006, Cash released "Black Cadillac", an album marked by the loss of stepmother June, and father Johnny, who both died in 2003, as well as mother Vivian, Johnny's first wife, who died as Rosanne finished the album in 2005. The album was critically praised, and named to

title: The Fabulous Johnny Cash

text: Presley's recording sessions for RCA Records). Overall, even though the album is only 29 minutes in length, it is considered one of Cash's most cohesive pieces. This is largely because his sessions with Columbia were completed over a two-month period. That is greatly reduced when compared to the year by year sessions by Sun Records. "The Fabulous Johnny Cash" was a successful debut on Columbia for Cash as it sold over half a million copies during its initial release. The album was recorded simultaneously with "Hymns by Johnny Cash", released in 1959. ∗ This song was re-recorded as "You Dreamer

title: Johnny Cash

text: friendly with every US President, starting with Richard Nixon. He was closest to Jimmy Carter, with whom he became close friends and who was a distant cousin of his wife, June. When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1970, Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters), "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song which denies the integrity of welfare recipients), and "A Boy Named Sue". Cash declined to play the first two and instead selected other songs,

title: Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden

text: to even some folk rock. Similarly to the extended releases of both the "San Quentin" and "At Folsom Prison" that had been made available around the same time, "Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden" includes numbers performed by Perkins, the Statlers and the Carters while Johnny was offstage. During this particular show, however, Cash introduced his father Ray and also Shel Silverstein, who wrote Cash's biggest pop hit, "A Boy Named Sue". Silverstein is the subject of some good-natured ribbing by Cash as he performs an uncensored version of "A Boy Named Sue". At the time of the recording, "The

title: The Johnny Cash Children's Album

text: 12 March 1959 for "Songs of Our Soil" Photography: Al Clayton (original LP), J.P. Philips (two black-and-white photos) The Johnny Cash Children's Album The Johnny Cash Children's Album is the 49th album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1975 featuring recordings made between January 1972 and October 1973. As the title implies, it contains songs written for children. Among others, this includes "Tiger Whitehead", a song later released in an acoustic version on Cash's posthumous "Personal File" album in 2006. Most of the songs on the album had not been performed by Cash before. "Old Shep"

title: The Sound of Johnny Cash

text: sessions for the album, Cash rerecorded his Sun Records hits "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hey Porter" and "I Walk the Line", but none of these versions were ultimately used on the album and sat unreleased until the 1990s. The original 1962 album features a photograph of Johnny Cash taken by American photographer Leigh Wiener at his studio in Los Angeles, California. The album did not chart in the "Billboard" album charts. In 1962 the single "In the Jailhouse Now" peaked at #8 in the Billboard Country Singles. The Sound of Johnny Cash The Sound of Johnny Cash is the twelfth album

title: Silver (Johnny Cash album)

text: This is the last album that Marshall Grant, the original Tennessee Two bass player, played on. He departed from Cash's band the following year. "Silver" was re-released in 2002 through Legacy Recordings, with remakes of two early Cash songs, "I Still Miss Someone" and "I Got Stripes," as bonus tracks; both are duets with George Jones. Album - Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (North America) Silver (Johnny Cash album) Silver is the 62nd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1979. It peaked at #28 on the "Billboard" albums chart. "" peaked at #2

title: The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)

text: a greater emphasis on comedy, with Steve Martin and Jim Varney appearing as regulars, and with June Carter Cash performing several comedy routines as "Aunt Polly" (reviving a character she had performed early in her career). Following "Johnny Cash and Friends", an annual "Johnny Cash Christmas Special" series was launched, starting in 1976, with specials airing almost every year until 1985. 32 episodes A DVD set featuring 66 live performances from the show, called "The Best of The Johnny Cash TV Show", was released in Region 1 on September 18, 2007. The DVD set was hosted by Kris Kristofferson and

title: The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II

text: Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire". The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II The Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. II is a compilation album by Johnny Cash, released on Island Records in 2006. The release was a result of the success of the 2005 career-spanning compilation "The Legend of Johnny Cash". The follow-up similarly includes songs performed by Cash at various stages of his career, starting from "There You Go" from the mid-1950s and ending on a number of selections from the singer's American series, including a version of "In the Sweet By and By" from "My Mother's Hymn Book"

title: The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II

text: The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II The Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. II is a compilation album by Johnny Cash, released on Island Records in 2006. The release was a result of the success of the 2005 career-spanning compilation "The Legend of Johnny Cash". The follow-up similarly includes songs performed by Cash at various stages of his career, starting from "There You Go" from the mid-1950s and ending on a number of selections from the singer's American series, including a version of "In the Sweet By and By" from "My Mother's Hymn Book" and a live, orchestral version of

title: VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson

text: an archival recording, "Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden", recorded in 1969, would be issued a year before his death. VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson VH1 Storytellers is the 83rd overall album and is a live album by Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) on American Recordings. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and was the third record released as part of Cash's ten-year period of collaboration with Rubin. It is not, however, counted as part of the "American Recordings" series, which is reserved for Cash's studio work with Rubin. Cash

title: The Johnny Cash Show (album)

text: - U.S. Billboard charts The Johnny Cash Show (album) The Johnny Cash Show is the 35th overall album and live album by country singer Johnny Cash, recorded at the Grand Ole Opry and released on Columbia Records in 1970 as a tie-in with Cash's then-current TV series of the same title. Though one of Cash's lesser-known live records, it spawned the highly successful single "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", which helped kickstart the career of singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. The song and album reached No. 1 on the Country charts. The album was certified Gold on 2/16/1995 by the RIAA. Album -

title: The Johnny Cash Show (album)

text: The Johnny Cash Show (album) The Johnny Cash Show is the 35th overall album and live album by country singer Johnny Cash, recorded at the Grand Ole Opry and released on Columbia Records in 1970 as a tie-in with Cash's then-current TV series of the same title. Though one of Cash's lesser-known live records, it spawned the highly successful single "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", which helped kickstart the career of singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. The song and album reached No. 1 on the Country charts. The album was certified Gold on 2/16/1995 by the RIAA. Album - U.S. Billboard charts Singles

title: Johnny Cash

text: (with their version of "Jackson" being released as a single), and Phoenix learned to play guitar for the role. Phoenix received a Grammy Award for his contributions to the soundtrack. John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June, served as an executive producer. On March 12, 2006, "Ring of Fire", a jukebox musical of the Cash oeuvre, debuted on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, but closed due to harsh reviews and disappointing sales on April 30. "Million Dollar Quartet", a musical portraying the early Sun recording sessions involving Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, debuted

title: Johnny Cash

text: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2007. The museum offers public tours of the bus on a seasonal basis (it is stored during the winter and not exhibited during those times). A limited-edition Forever stamp honoring Cash went on sale June 5, 2013. The stamp features a promotional picture of Cash taken around the 1963 release of ". The Undertaker used Cash's version of "Ain't No Grave" at WrestleMania XXVII as his entrance theme. On October 14, 2014, the City of Folsom unveiled phase 1 of the Johnny Cash Trail to the public with

title: The Unissued Johnny Cash

text: song "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" is an outtake from "Blood Sweat and Tears". "Viel zu spät" and "Wo ist Zuhause, Mama" are re-recordings in German of hit songs by Cash. At the time "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" and other country songs were seeing success in Germany, so Columbia had Cash record translations of "I Got Stripes" and "Five Feet High and Rising" for a single. This was probably the first time a country singer recorded a song in a foreign language, but would lead to further recordings of songs in German. All songs written by Johnny Cash

title: Johnny Cash (song)

text: the narrator addresses his lover, inviting her to join him on a road trip to Las Vegas. The connection to singer Johnny Cash is made only in the chorus ("Blastin' out the Johnny Cash"), indicating that Cash's music will be played while the narrator and his lover are on their road trip. Brody Vercher of Engine 145 said that the song is "a good pick-me up song for those looking to get the blood flowing before a workout." Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for "Country Universe", gave it a C- grade. He said that the song "doesn’t even have

title: Wanted Man (Johnny Cash album)

text: by Columbia Records. Wanted Man (Johnny Cash album) Wanted Man is a compilation album from country singer Johnny Cash and was released in 1994. This album contains some popular songs of Cash like "Wanted Man" and "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town"; it also has the remake of the song "Ballad of A Teenage Queen" (from the 1988 album "Water from the Wells of Home"). When Cash signed with Mercury Records, his popularity went down, but the album got some attention. It does not contain his 'big hits'. It should not be confused with "Wanted Man", a later collection

title: Wanted Man (Johnny Cash album)

text: Wanted Man (Johnny Cash album) Wanted Man is a compilation album from country singer Johnny Cash and was released in 1994. This album contains some popular songs of Cash like "Wanted Man" and "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town"; it also has the remake of the song "Ballad of A Teenage Queen" (from the 1988 album "Water from the Wells of Home"). When Cash signed with Mercury Records, his popularity went down, but the album got some attention. It does not contain his 'big hits'. It should not be confused with "Wanted Man", a later collection of hits released

title: Johnny Cash

text: that one thing he had learned about the singer was one did not tell him what to sing. Johnny Cash was the grand marshal of the United States Bicentennial parade. He wore a shirt from Nudie Cohn which sold for $25,000 in auction in 2010. After the parade he gave a concert at the Washington monument. In 1980, Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living inductee at age 48, but during the 1980s, his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, although he continued to tour successfully. In the mid-1980s, he recorded and

title: Johnny Cash

text: 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he started going by Johnny Cash. In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas, a New Deal colony established to give poor families a chance to work land that they had a chance to own as a result. J.R. started working in cotton fields at the age of five, singing along with his family while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which led him later to write the song "Five Feet High and Rising". His family's economic and personal struggles during the

title: Johnny Cash

text: Down", Cash refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact: The closing program of the Johnny Cash show was a gospel music special. Guests included the Blackwood Brothers, Mahalia Jackson, Stuart Hamblen, and Billy Graham. By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black". He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long, black, knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day - rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. In 1971,

title: The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)

text: directed by Michael B. Borofsky, and was produced by Reverse Angle Productions for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. An accompanying CD, featuring selected numbers from the show (some of them not on the DVD set), was also released. DVD 1 DVD 2 The Johnny Cash Show (TV series) The Johnny Cash Show is an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17

title: Rainbow (Johnny Cash album)

text: Rainbow (Johnny Cash album) Rainbow is the 70th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, his last for Columbia Records, released in 1985 (see 1985 in country music). "I'm Leaving Now", which appeared fifteen years later as a track on Cash's "", was released as a single rather unsuccessfully, but the album's signature song is a cover of Kris Kristofferson's "Here Comes That Rainbow Again", which also appeared on Cash's 1995 collaboration with Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings - known as The Highwaymen - entitled "The Road Goes on Forever", though it was sung solo by Kristofferson on the

title: Johnny Cash

text: be referred to by sailors as "Johnny Cashes", as the uniform's shirt, tie, and trousers are solid black. In the mid-1970s, Cash's popularity and number of hit songs began to decline. He made commercials for Amoco and STP, an unpopular enterprise at the time of the 1970s energy crisis. In 1976, he made commercials for Lionel Trains, for which he also wrote the music. However, his first autobiography, "Man in Black", was published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. A second, "Cash: The Autobiography", appeared in 1997. His friendship with Billy Graham led to Cash's production of a film

title: Johnny Cash

text: it, leading to a re-recording of the songs by contemporary artists and the making of a documentary film about Cash's efforts with the album. This film was aired on PBS in February and November 2016. His "Sings the Ballads of the True West" (1965) was an experimental double record, mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration. Reaching a low with his severe drug addiction and destructive behavior, Cash was divorced from his first wife and had performances cancelled, but he continued to find success. In 1967, Cash's duet with June Carter, "Jackson," won a Grammy Award. Cash was last

title: Johnny Cash

text: DVD released August 21, 2018. The album featured stories of a multitude of native peoples, mostly of their violent oppression by white settlers: The Pima ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes"), Navajo ("Navajo"), Apache ("Apache Tears"), Lakota ("Big Foot"), Seneca ("As Long as the Grass Shall Grow"), and Cherokee ("Talking Leaves"). Cash wrote three of the songs himself and one with the help of Johnny Horton, but the majority of the protest songs were written by folk artist Peter La Farge (son of activist and Pulitzer prizewinner Oliver La Farge), whom Cash met in New York in the 1960s and whom

title: Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter

text: album was released (with Carter subsequently changing her professional name to June Carter Cash), and the couple performed "Jackson" at numerous venues throughout the years. The album was re-issued on March 19, 2002, through Legacy Recordings, with two additional tracks. Album - Billboard (North America) Singles - Billboard (North America) Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter is an album by Johnny Cash and June Carter released in 1967 (see 1967 in music), on Columbia Records. The album consists exclusively of duets by Cash and Carter, including "Jackson"; "Long Legged Guitar

title: Johnny Cash

text: were in birth order: Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R., Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist). He was primarily of English and Scottish descent. As an adult he traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart. Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family. At birth, Cash was named J. R. Cash. When Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In

title: Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

text: recorded by Cash in the early 1980s but not released at that time, is also omitted as it would not be released officially until 2014. Many of the albums featured in the set make their CD debut in the collection. According to country historian Rich Kienzle's liner notes (part of a 200-page book included in the set), one album "Koncert V Praze (In Prague–Live)" received its first North American release in the set. Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a box set by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 2012 (see 2012 in