Johnny Cash

duimnael|Johnny Cash met sy tweede vrou, June Carter.
duimnael|Cash sing 'n duet saam met 'n luitenant van die vloot.
duimnael|Cash se graf (bo) en die Cash/Carter-gedenksteen (onder).

**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)