Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash (26 Februarie 1932 – 12 September 2003), was 'n Amerikaanse sanger en skrywer, akteur, literatuur skrywer en word as een van die mees invloedrykste musikante van die 20ste eeu gesien. Alhoewel hy hoofsaaklik as 'n Country-musikant bekend gestaan het, het hy ook ander genres musiek gesing, soos "rockabilly", rock en roll, blues, folk, en gospel. Hierdie veelsydigheid het daartoe aanleiding gegee dat Cash in verskeie museums opgeneem is, en staan hy vandag in die "Country Music Hall of Fame", "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" en die "Gospel Music Hall of Fame".

Cash was bekend vir sy diep, bariton bas-stem, gepaard met 'n opstandige tog depressiewe charismatiese temperament en sy swart kleredrag wat hom die naam, "Die man in swart" gegee het. Sy konserte het altyd begin met "Hallo, ek is Johnny Cash" en is dan gewoonlik met "Folsom Prison Blues" gevolg. Cash se musiek het in sy latere jare baie emosioneel geword en temas van hartseer en spyt bevat. Sy bekendste werke was "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm" en "Man in Black".

Diskografie 
Cash se albums:

1957-1967 
 Johnny Cash and His Hot and Blue Guitar
 Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
 The Fabulous Johnny Cash
 Greatest (ondanks dat de titel anders doet vermoeden is dit geen best-of)
 Hymns by Johnny Cash
 Songs of Our Soil
 Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
 Ride This Train
 Now There Was A Song
 Now, Here's Johnny Cash
 Hymns from the Heart
 The Sound of Johnny Cash
 All Aboard the Blue Train
 Blood, Sweat and Tears
 Ring of Fire
 The Christmas Spirit
 Keep on the Sunny Side
 I Walk the Line
 The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
 Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
 Orange Blossom Special
 Ballads of the True West
 Mean as Hell
 Everybody Loves a Nut
 Happiness is You
 Johnny Cash & June Carter: Jackson
 Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits
 Carryin' on with Cash and Carter

1968-1978 
 From Sea to Shining Sea
 Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
 The Holy Land
 Johnny Cash At San Quentin
 At Madison Square Garden
 Original Golden Hits, Volume I
 Original Golden Hits, Volume II
 Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers
 Got Rhythm
 Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison Blues
 The Blue Train
 Johnny Cash Sings the Greatest Hits
 Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Jackson
 Johnny Cash: The Legend
 The Walls of a Prison
 Sunday Down South
 Showtime
 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
 The Singing Storyteller
 The World of Johnny Cash
 Johnny Cash Sings I Walk the Line
 The Rough Cut King of Country Music
 The Johnny Cash Show
 I Walk the Line - Movie Soundtrack
 Little Fauss and Big Halsy - Movie Soundtrack
 Man in Black
 Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis Sing Hank Williams
 Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
 The Johnny Cash Collection: Greatest Hits Volume II
 Understand Your Man
 Original Golden Hits, Volume III
 A Thing Called Love
 Give My Love to Rose
 America
 The Johnny Cash Songbook
 Christmas: The Johnny Cash Family
 The Gospel Road
 Any Old Wind That Blows
 Now, There Was a Song
 The Fabulous Johnny Cash
 Johnny Cash and His Woman
 Sunday Morning Coming Down
 Ballads of the American Indian
 Ragged Old Flag
 Five Feet High and Rising
 The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
 Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
 The Children's Album
 John R.Cash
 Johnny Cash at Osteraker Prison
 Look at Them Beans
 Strawberry Cake
 One Piece at a Time
 Destination Victoria Station
 The Last Gunfighter Ballad
 The Rambler
 I Would Like to See You Again
 Greatest Hits, Volume III
 Gone Girl

1979-1989 
 Johnny Cash - Silver
 A Believer Sings the Truth
 Rockabilly Blues
 Classic Christmas
 The Baron
 Encore
 The Survivors
 A Believer Sings the Truth, Volume I
 The Adventures of Johnny Cash
 Johnny Cash - Biggest Hits
 Johnny 99
 Songs of Love and Life
 I Believe
 Highwayman
 Rainbow
 Class of '55: Cash, Perkins, Orbison & Lewis
 Heroes: Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings
 Believe in Him
 Johnny Cash: Columbia Records 1958-1986
 Johnny Cash is Coming to Town
 Classic Cash
 Water From the Wells of Home

1990-2000 
 Johnny Cash: Patriot
 Boom Chicka Boom
 Johnny Cash: The Man in Black 1954-1958
 Best of Johnny Cash
 The Mystery of Life
 Johnny Cash: The Man in Black 1959-1962
 Come Along and Ride this Train
 The Essential Johnny Cash
 American Recordings
 Highwaymen: The Road Goes on Forever
 Unchained
 Johnny Cash: The Hits
 VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson
 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and San Quentin
 Johnny Cash: Crazy Country
 Johnny Cash: Timeless Inspiration
 Johnny 99
 The Man in Black: His Greatest Hits
 I Walk the Line: The Very Best of Johnny Cash
 Johnny Cash: Super Hits
 Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins: I Walk the Line/Little Fauss and Big Halsy
 Just As I Am
 Rockabilly Blues
 Cash on Delivery: A Tribute
 The Legendary Johnny Cash
 Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: It's All in the Family
 Sixteen Biggest Hits
 Return to The Promised Land
 Love, God and Murder
 At San Quentin
 A Living Legend
 Super Hits
 American III: Solitary Man

2001-2010 
 Sixteen Biggest Hits: Volume II
 Hurt
 Roads Less Traveled
 Essential Johnny Cash
 Twentieth Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Johnny Cash
 American IV: The Man Comes Around
 Kindred Spirits: Tribute to Johnny Cash
 Dressed In Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
 Unearthed (Box Set)
 A Concert: Behind Prison Walls
 Christmas with Johnny Cash
 Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride
 My Mother's Hymn Book
 The Legend of Johnny Cash
 Cash the Legend
 Personal File
 Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash 16 Biggest Hits
 American V: A Hundred Highways
 American VI: Ain't No Grave

Literatuur 
 Kleis, R., Cash - I see a darkness (stripbiografie, 2005)
 Cash, J. e.a., Johnny Cash persoonlijk (vertaling van Man in black, 1976)
 Cash, J. met Patrick Carr, Johnny Cash. The Autobiography (2007)

Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 20ste eeu
Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 21ste eeu
Amerikaanse sangers
Amerikaanse skrywers
Geboortes in 1932
Sterftes in 2003