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John R. Cash (February 26, 1932 September
12, 2003) was a vastly influential American country music singer,
guitarist and songwriter.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive
voice, the boom chicka boom sound of his Tennessee Three backing band,
and his dark clothing and demeanor, which earned him the nickname "The
Man in Black." He started all his concerts with the simple introduction:
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
Fueled by his own rocky personal life and
spiritual path, much of Cash's music, especially that of his later
career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption. Hits
include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Man
in Black" and "Hurt". He also recorded several humorous songs, such as
"One Piece At A Time", "The One on the Right is on the Left" and "A Boy
Named Sue".
In a career that spanned almost five
decades, Cash was the personification of country music to many people
around the world, despite his distaste for the Nashville mainstream.
Yet, like Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley, Cash is a figure who
transcends genre. He recorded songs that could be considered rock and
roll, blues, rockabilly, folk and gospel, and exerted an influence on
each of those genres. Cash is one of ten performers to be inducted into
both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame
(Cash, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Hank Williams, Don and
Phil Everly, Sam Phillips, Jimmie Rodgers, Floyd Cramer). His pioneering
contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of
Fame.
In late 2005, a biopic about his life,
starring Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as his wife June
Carter, titled Walk the Line, was released into theaters.
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Biography
Early life
Born J.R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, by
age five he was working in the cotton fields, singing along with his
family as they worked. The family farm was flooded on at least one
occasion, which later inspired him to write the song "Five Feet High And
Rising".
Cash was one-quarter Cherokee. This Native
American background later showed out in several of his songs, like
"Trail of Tears", "Ballad of Ira Hayes" and his album "Bitter Tears".
Cash was very close to his brother Jack. In
1944, Jack was pulled into a whirling table saw in the mill where he
worked, and almost cut in two. He suffered for over a week before he
died. Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident,
because he had gone out fishing that day. On his deathbed, Jack said he
had had visions of Heaven and angels before he died. Almost sixty years
later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven.
Cash's early memories were dominated by
gospel music and radio. He began playing guitar and writing songs as a
young boy, and in high school sang on a local radio station. He was
dubbed "John" upon enlisting as a radio operator in the Air Force, which
refused to accept initials as his name. Thereafter, he was known as
Johnny and sometimes as John R. While an airman in West Germany, Cash
wrote one of his most famous songs, "Folsom Prison Blues," after seeing
the B-Movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison.
Early career
After his term of service ended, Cash
married Vivian Liberto in 1954 and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he
sold appliances while studying to be a radio announcer. At night, he
played with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant (the
Tennessee Two). Cash worked up the courage to visit the Sun Records
studio, hoping to garner a recording contract. Sun producer Cowboy Jack
Clement met with the young singer first, and suggested that Cash return
to meet producer Sam Phillips. After auditioning for Phillips, singing
mainly gospel tunes, Phillips told him to "go home and sin, then come
back with a song I can sell." Cash eventually won over Phillips and
Clement with new songs delivered in his early frenetic style. His first
recordings at Sun, "Hey Porter" and "Cry Cry Cry", were released in 1955
and met with reasonable success on the country hit parade.
Cash's next record, Folsom Prison Blues,
made the country Top 5, and "I Walk the Line" was No. 1 on the country
charts, making it into the pop charts Top 20. In 1957, Cash became the
first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. Although he was Sun's
most consistently best-selling and prolific artist at that time, Cash
felt constrained by his contract with the small label. Elvis Presley had
already left the label, and Phillips was focusing most of his attention
and promotion on Jerry Lee Lewis. The following year, Cash left Sun to
sign a lucrative offer with Columbia Records, where his single "Don't
Take Your Guns to Town" would become one of his biggest hits.
In 1955, Cash's daughter, Rosanne, was
born. Although he would have three more daughters (Kathy, Cindy and
Tara) with his wife, their relationship began to sour, as he was
constantly touring. It was during one of these tours that he met June
Carter. Cash proposed onstage to Carter at a concert at the London
Gardens in London, Ontario on February 22, 1968; the couple married a
week later in Franklin, Kentucky. By June's account, in the liner notes
to the compilation album Love (2000), the song "I Still Miss Someone"
was written about her.
Drug addiction
As his career was taking off in the early
1960s, Cash began drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines
and barbiturates. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic
behavior, many ignoring the signs of his worsening drug addiction. For a
brief time, Cash shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings,
who was also heavily addicted to amphetamines. Although in many ways
spiraling out of control, his frenetic creativity was still delivering
hits. His song "Ring of Fire" was a major crossover hit, reaching No. 1
on the country charts and entering the Top 20 on the pop charts. The
song was co-written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and originally
performed by Carter's sister, but the signature mariachi-style horn
arrangement was conceived by Cash, who claimed to have heard it in a
dream. The song, written about Cash, describes the personal hell Carter
went through as she wrestled with her forbidden love for Cash (they were
both married to other people at the time) and as she dealt with Cash's
personal "ring of fire" (drug dependency and alcoholism.)
Although he carefully cultivated a romantic
outlaw image, many fans are surprised to learn that he never served a
prison sentence, although he landed in jail seven times for
misdemeanors, each stay lasting a single night. His most serious run-in
with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by the
narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas. Although the officers suspected that
he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, he was actually smuggling illegal
amphetamines inside his guitar case. He received a suspended sentence.
He was arrested the following year in Starkville, Mississippi, for
trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (This
incident gave the spark for the song "Starkville City Jail".) More
notably, he voluntarily entered several prisons to perform a series of
concerts for convicts, for whom he felt great compassion.
The mid 1960s saw Cash release a number of
concept albums, including Ballads Of The True West (1965), an
experimental double record mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's
spoken narration; and Bitter Tears (1964), with songs highlighting the
plight of the American Indians. His drug addiction was at its worst at
this point, however, and his destructive behavior led to a divorce from
Vivian and canceled performances.
For his album Bitter Tears, Cash recorded
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes", a Peter LaFarge song that told the true story
of a Pima Indian who was one of the Marine heroes of the epic WWII
battle at Iwo Jima. Despite his heroism, Hayes returned home to crushing
despair and racial prejudice: "Ira Hayes returned a hero, celebrated
throughout the land / He was wined and speeched and honored, everybody
shook his hand / But he was just a Pima Indian, no water, no home, no
chance / At home nobody cared what Ira had done, and when do the Indians
dance?" Though "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was a No. 3 country single,
many stations refused to play it, deeming it too risky. Cash took out a
full-page ad in Billboard magazine denouncing country radio for its
reluctance. "'Ballad of Ira Hayes' is strong medicine," he wrote. "So is
Rochester, Harlem, Birmingham [referring to then-recent race riots] and
Vietnam."
Personal problems followed him to his new
home on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee (outside of
Nashville). His longtime guitarist, Luther Perkins, died in a house fire
in August 1968. Less than two months later, the home of his next door
neighbor and close friend, Roy Orbison, burned down, claiming the lives
of two of Orbison's three young sons. Cash was profoundly affected by
these incidents, and he attempted to take the first steps on a long,
hard road to recovery. He locked himself in his home and underwent
detox, relying heavily on his friends, and especially Carter and her
parents, Ezra and Maybelle. He and Carter were married soon after. The
love ballad "Flesh and Blood" is one of the first of many songs Cash
would write about his second wife.
Over the next two years, he recorded and
released two massively successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom
Prison (1968) and Johnny Cash at San Quentin (1969). The Folsom Prison
record was charged by a blistering rendition of his classic "Folsom
Prison Blues," while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit
single "A Boy Named Sue", a Shel Silverstein-penned song that reached
No. 1 on the country charts and No. 2 on the US Top Ten pop charts.
Shortly after his historic concert at Madison Square Garden in the
waning days of the 1960s, his son John Carter Cash was born.
According to Cash his lowest point, and the
point at which he realized he was sick because of the drugs, came when
Cash drove his Jeep to Chattanooga, Tennessee and crawled into the
Nickajack caves. Cash stated that he originally crawled into the caves
to die because of the guilt and depression his drug addiction had caused
to himself and others. However, while inside Cash said he felt an
overwhelming presence of the Lord inside him and decided to change his
life at that very moment. He began the long process of crawling out of
the caves and when he emerged, June and his mother were waiting there to
take him back to his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
After he quit using drugs in the late 1960s
and early 1970s, Cash rediscovered his Christian faith, taking an "altar
call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area. Cash
chose this church over many other larger, celebrity churches, in the
Nashville area because he said he was just another man there, and not a
celebrity. He could worship with other people and not be anything more
than a common man. .
"The Man in Black"
From 1969 to 1971, Cash starred in his own
television show on the ABC network. The singing group The Statler
Brothers got their start on the show, opening up for him in every
episode. Notable rock artists appeared on his show, including Neil
Young, The Monkees and Bob Dylan. Cash had been an early supporter of
Dylan even before they had met, but they became friends while they were
neighbors in late 1960s in Woodstock, New York. Cash was enthusiastic
about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. In addition to
the appearance on his TV show, Cash sang a duet with Dylan on his
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 songwriter Kris Kristofferson.
During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming
Down," Cash made headlines when he refused to change the lyrics to suit
network executives, singing the song with its controversial references
to marijuana intact: "On the Sunday morning sidewalks / Wishin', Lord,
that I was stoned."
Immensely popular, and an imposingly tall
figure, 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 stark contrast to the
costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone
Nudie suits and cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in
Black" to help explain his dress code: "I wear the black for the poor
and the beaten down, / Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, / I
wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, / But is there
because he's a victim of the times."
In the mid-'70s, Cash's popularity and hit
songs began to decline, but his autobiography, titled Man in Black, was
published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. (A second, Cash: The
Autobiography, appeared in 1998). His friendship with Billy Graham led
to the production of a movie about the life of Jesus, The Gospel Road,
which Cash co-wrote and narrated. The decade saw his religious
conviction deepening, and in addition to his regular touring schedule,
he made many public appearances in an evangelical capacity. He also
continued to appear on television, hosting an annual Christmas special
on CBS throughout the 1970s. Later television appearances included a
role in an episode of Columbo, as well as a recurring role on Dr. Quinn,
Medicine Woman. He did a voice cameo on The Simpsons in the show's
eighth season, playing the voice of a coyote that guides Homer on a
spiritual quest (in episode 3F24). He also appeared with his wife on an
episode of Little House on the Prairie entitled "The Collection" and
gave a stirring performance as John Brown in the 1980s Civil War
television mini-series North and South.
Highwaymen
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, though he
continued to tour successfully. In the mid-1980s he recorded and toured
with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson as The
Highwaymen, making two hit albums.
During this period, Cash appeared as an
actor in a number of television films. In 1981, he starred in The Pride
Of Jesse Hallam. Cash won fine reviews for his work in this film that
called attention to adult illiteracy. In 1983, Cash also appeared as a
heroic sheriff in Murder In Coweta County, which co-starred Andy
Griffith as his nemesis. This film was based on a real life Georgia
murder case; Cash had tried for years to make the film, which would win
him acclaim.
Cash relapsed into addiction after a
serious stomach injury in 1983 (sustained in a fight with an ostrich at
his exotic animal park) led him to abuse painkillers. [1] During his
recovery at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1986, he met and befriended Ozzy
Osbourne, one of his son's favorite singers. At another hospital visit
in 1988, this time to watch over Waylon Jennings (who was recovering
from a heart attack), Jennings suggested that Cash have himself checked
in to the hospital for his own heart condition. Doctors recommended
preventive heart surgery, and Cash underwent double bypass surgery in
the same hospital. Both recovered, although Cash refused to use any
prescription painkillers, fearing a relapse into dependency. Cash later
claimed that during his operation, he had what is called a "near death
experience." He said he had visions of Heaven that were so beautiful
that he was angry when he woke up alive.
As his relationship with record companies
and the Nashville establishment soured, he occasionally lapsed into
self-parody, notably on "Chicken In Black." After Columbia Records
dropped Cash from his recording contract, he had a short and
unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records.
In 1986, Cash published his only novel, Man
in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle
Paul. That same year, Cash returned to Sun Studios in Memphis to team up
with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins to create the album,
Class of '55. This was not the first time he had teamed up with Lewis
and Perkins at Sun Studios. On December 4, 1956, Elvis Presley dropped
in on Phillips to pay a social visit while Perkins was in the studio
cutting new tracks with Lewis backing him on piano. The three started an
impromptu jam session and Phillips left the tapes running. He later
telephoned Cash and brought him in to join the others. These recordings,
almost half of which were gospel songs, survived and have been released
on CD under the title Million Dollar Quartet. Tracks also include Chuck
Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," Pat Boone's "Don't Forbid Me" and
Elvis doing an impersonation of Jackie Wilson (who was then with Billy
Ward and the Dominoes) singing "Don't Be Cruel."
American recordings
His career was rejuvenated in the 1990s. In
1993, he sang the vocal on U2's "The Wanderer" for their album Zooropa.
Although he was no longer sought after by major labels, Cash was
approached by producer Rick Rubin and offered a contract with Rubin's
American Recordings label, better known for rap and hard rock than for
country music. Under Rubin's supervision, he recorded the album American
Recordings (1994) in his living room, accompanied only by his guitar.
The video for the first single, the traditional song "Delia's Gone," was
put into rotation on MTV, including a spot on Beavis and Butt-head. The
album was hailed by critics and many declared it to be Cash's finest
album since the late 1960s, while his versions of songs by more modern
artists such as heavy metal band Danzig and Tom Waits helped to bring
him a new audience. American Recordings received a Grammy for
Contemporary Folk Album of the Year at the 1994 Grammy Awards. Cash
wrote that his reception at the 1994 Glastonbury Festival was one of the
highlights of his career. This was the beginning of a decade of music
industry accolades and surprising commercial success. In addition to
this, Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the popular
television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman starring Jane Seymour. The
actress thought so highly of Cash that she later named one of her twin
sons after him.
For his second album with Rubin, 1996's
Unchained, Cash enlisted the accompaniment of Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers. In addition to many of Cash's own compositions, Unchained
contained songs by Soundgarden ("Rusty Cage") and Beck ("Rowboat"), as
well as a guest appearance from Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili
Peppers. The album also included a cover of a classic 1962 Hank Snow
song called "I've Been Everywhere." Despite being virtually ignored by
country music radio and the Nashville establishment, Unchained received
a Grammy for Best Country Album. Cash and Rubin bought a full-page ad in
Billboard magazine sarcastically thanking the country music industry for
its continued support, accompanied by a picture of Cash displaying his
middle finger.
Sickness and death
In 1997 Cash was diagnosed with the
neurodegenerative disease Shy-Drager syndrome, a diagnosis that was
later altered to autonomic neuropathy associated with diabetes. His
illness forced Cash to curtail his touring. He was hospitalized in 1998
with severe pneumonia, which damaged his lungs. The album American III:
Solitary Man (2000) contained Cash's response to his illness, typified
by a version of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," as well as a powerful
reading of U2's "One." American III: Solitary Man, just like Cash's two
previous albums produced by Rick Rubin, was a Grammy winner, taking home
the award for the Best Country Male Vocal Performance for Cash's version
of the Neil Diamond classic "Solitary Man."
Cash released American IV: The Man Comes
Around (2002), consisting partly of original material and partly of
covers. The video for "Hurt", a song written by Trent Reznor of Nine
Inch Nails, was nominated in seven categories at the 2003 MTV Video
Music Awards and won the award for Best Cinematography. In February
2003, mere days before his 71st birthday, Cash won another Grammy for
Best Country Male Vocal Performance for "Give My Love To Rose," a song
Cash had originally recorded in the late 1950s. The music video for
"Hurt," hailed by critics and fans alike as the most personal and moving
music video in history, also won a Grammy for Best Short Form Video at
the 2004 Grammy Awards.
June Carter Cash died of complications
following heart valve replacement surgery on May 15, 2003 at the age of
73. Johnny was ready to give up his music, but June had told him to keep
working, so he continued to record, and even performed a couple of
surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, VA. (The July
5, 2003 concert was his final public appearance.) Before singing "Ring
of Fire" to the crowd of onlookers, Cash read a statement about June
that he had written shortly before taking the stage. He spoke of how
June's spirit was watching over him and how she had come to visit him
before going on stage. He barely made it through the song. Despite his
health issues, he talked of looking forward to the day when he could
walk again and toss his wheelchair into the lake near his home.
Less than four months after his wife's
death, Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from
diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at
Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was interred next to his
wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville,
Tennessee.
Legacy
From his early days as a pioneer of
rockabilly and rock and roll in the 1950s, to his decades as an
international representative of country music, to his resurgence to fame
as both a living legend and an alternative country icon in the 1990s,
Cash has influenced countless artists and left a body of work matched
only by the greatest artists of his time. Upon his death, Cash was
revered and eulogized by many of the greatest popular musicians of our
day, whose comments on the man and his work reflect something of the
esteem in which he was held:
"Every man knows he is a sissy compared to
Johnny Cash." Bono
"In plain terms, Johnny was and is the
North Star; you could guide your ship by him the greatest of the
greats then and now." Bob Dylan
"Abraham Lincoln with a wild side." Kris
Kristofferson
"Johnny Cash transcends all musical
boundaries, and is one of the original outlaws." Willie Nelson
"[Cash] took the social consciousness of
folk music, the gravity and humor of country music and the rebellion of
rock 'n' roll, and told all us young guys that not only was it all right
to tear up those lines and boundaries, but it was important." Bruce
Springsteen
Cash nurtured and defended artists on the
fringes of what was acceptable in country music, even while serving as
the country music establishment's most visible symbol. At an all-star
concert in 2002, a diverse group of artists paid him tribute, including
Bob Dylan, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson,
Willie Nelson, and U2. Two tribute albums were released shortly before
his death; Kindred Spirits contains works from established artists,
while Dressed In Black contains works from many lesser-known artists.
Though he wrote over a thousand songs and
released dozens of albums, his creative output was not entirely silenced
by his death. A box set, titled Unearthed, was issued posthumously. It
included four CDs of unreleased material recorded with Rubin, as well as
a "Best of Cash on American" retrospective CD. American V, his final
album, will be released posthumously.
In recognition of his lifelong support of
SOS Children's Villages, his family invited friends and fans to donate
to that charity in his memory. He had a personal link with the SOS
village in Ammersee in Diessen, Germany, near where he was stationed as
a GI, and also with the SOS village in Barrett Town, by Montego Bay near
his holiday home in Jamaica. The Johnny Cash Memorial Fund was founded
and contributions can be made here.
Walk the Line, a movie about Johnny Cash's
life starring Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June
Carter, was released in the U.S. on November 18, 2005 to considerable
commercial success and critical acclaim.
Trivia
It was announced on January 4, 2006 that
former BeeGee Barry Gibb purchased the Hendersonville, TN home of Johnny
and June Carter Cash.
Albums
1957 - Johnny Cash and His Hot and Blue
Guitar
1958 - Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That
Made Him Famous
1959 - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1959 - Hymns by Johnny Cash
1959 - Songs of Our Soil
1959 - Greatest Johnny Cash
1960 - Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
1960 - Ride This Train
1960 - Now There Was A Song
1961 - Now, Here's Johnny Cash
1962 - Hymns from the Heart
1962 - The Sound of Johnny Cash
1962 - All Aboard the Blue Train
1963 - Blood, Sweat and Tears
1963 - Ring of Fire
1963 - The Christmas Spirit
1964 - Keep on the Sunny Side
1964 - I Walk the Line
1964 - The Original Sun Sound of Johnny
Cash
1964 - Bitter Tears: Ballads of the
American Indian
1965 - Orange Blossom Special
1965 - Ballads of the True West
1965 - Mean as Hell
1966 - Everybody Loves a Nut
1966 - Happiness is You
1967 - Johnny Cash & June Carter: Jackson
1967 - Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits
1967 - Carryin' on with Cash and Carter
1968 - From Sea to Shining Sea
1968 - At Folsom Prison
1968 - The Holy Land
1969 - At San Quentin
1969 - Johnny Cash
1969 - Original Golden Hits, Volume I
1969 - Original Golden Hits, Volume II
1969 - Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers
1969 - Got Rhythm
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison
Blues
1970 - The Blue Train
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings the Greatest Hits
1970 - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash:
Jackson
1970 - Johnny Cash: The Legend
1970 - The Walls of a Prison
1970 - Sunday Down South
1970 - Showtime
1970 - Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
1970 - The Singing Storyteller
1970 - The World of Johnny Cash
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings I Walk the Line
1970 - The Rough Cut King of Country Music
1970 - The Johnny Cash Show
1970 - I Walk the Line - Movie Soundtrack
1970 - Little Fauss and Big Halsy - Movie
Soundtrack
1971 - Man in Black
1971 - Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis Sing
Hank Williams
1971 - Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His
Music
1971 - The Johnny Cash Collection: Greatest
Hits Volume II
1971 - Understand Your Man
1971 - Original Golden Hits, Volume III
1972 - A Thing Called Love
1972 - Give My Love to Rose
1972 - America
1972 - The Johnny Cash Songbook
1972 - Christmas: The Johnny Cash Family
1973 - The Gospel Road
1973 - Any Old Wind That Blows
1973 - Now, There Was a Song
1973 - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1973 - Johnny Cash and His Woman
1973 - Sunday Morning Coming Down
1973 - Ballads of the American Indian
1974 - Ragged Old Flag
1974 - Five Feet High and Rising
1974 - The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus
Me
1975 - Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
1975 - The Children's Album
1975 - John R. Cash
1975 - Johnny Cash at Osteraker Pirsion
1975 - Look at Them Beans
1975 - Strawberry Cake
1976 - One Piece at a Time
1976 - Destination Victoria Station
1977 - The Last Gunfighter Ballad
1977 - The Rambler
1978 - I Would Like to See You Again
1978 - Greatest Hits, Volume III
1978 - Gone Girl
1979 - Johnny Cash - Silver
1979 - A Believer Sings the Truth
1980 - Rockabilly Blues
1980 - Classic Christmas
1981 - The Baron
1981 - Encore
1982 - The Survivors
1982 - A Believer Sings the Truth, Volume I
1982 - The Adventures of Johnny Cash
1983 - Johnny Cash - Biggest Hits
1983 - Johnny 99
1983 - Songs of Love and Life
1984 - I Believe
1985 - Highwayman
1986 - Rainbow
1986 - Class of '55: Cash, Perkins, Orbison
& Lewis
1986 - Heroes: Johnny Cash and Waylon
Jennings
1986 - Believe in Him
1987 - Johnny Cash: Columbia Records
1958-1986
1987 - Johnny Cash is Coming to Town
1988 - Classic Cash
1988 - Water From the Wells of Home
1990 - Johnny Cash: Patriot
1990 - Boom Chicka Boom
1990 - Johnny Cash: The Man in Black
1954-1958
1991 - The Mystery of Life
1991 - Johnny Cash: The Man in Black
1959-1962
1991 - Come Along and Ride this Train
1992 - The Essential Johnny Cash
1994 - American Recordings
1995 - Highwaymen: The Road Goes on Forever
1996 - Unchained
1996 - Johnny Cash: The Hits
1998 - VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash and
Willie Nelson
1998 - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and San
Quentin
1998 - Johnny Cash: Crazy Country
1998 - Johnny Cash: Timeless Inspiration
1998 - Johnny 99
1999 - Johnny Cash: Super Hits
1999 - Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins: I Walk
the Line/Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1999 - Just as I am
1999 - Rickabilly Blues
1999 - Cash on Delivery: A Tribute
1999 - The Legendary Johnny Cash
1999 - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash:
It's All in the Family
1999 - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
1999 - Sixteen Biggest Hits
2000 - Return to The Promised Land
2000 - Love, God and Murder
2000 - At San Quentin
2000 - Super Hits
2000 - American III: Solitary Man
2001 - Sixteen Biggest Hits: Volume II
2002 - American IV: The Man Comes Around
2003 - Unearthed [Box Set]
2004 - My Mother's Hymn Book
2005 - The Legend Of Johnny Cash
2005 - The Legend [Box Set]
2005 - The Road Goes On Forever: 10th
Anniversary Edition
Well-Known Songs:
I Walk The Line (1955)
Ring of Fire (1963)
Hurt (2002)
Gospel - Songs:
Where We'll Never Grow Old
I Shall Not Be Moved
I Am a Pilgrim
Do Lord
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
I'll Fly Away
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
Let the Lower Lights Be Running
When He Reached Down
In the Sweet By and By
I'm Bound for the Promised Land
In the Garden
Softly and Tenderly
Just as I Am
Awards
Johnny Cash was inducted into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 1996, he was honored with a Kennedy Center Award and he has a Star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd. He is a member of the
Songwriters Hall of Fame. Cash was one of the initial recipients of the
Library of Congress Living Legend medal in 2000. In 2002, he was honored
at the Americana Awards show with a "Spirit of Americana Free Speech
Award". He shares the honor with Hank Williams Sr. for being a full
member of the three major music halls of fame: Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Grammys
1967 Best Country & Western Performance,
Duet, Trio Or Group, "Jackson" (with June Carter)
1968 Best Album Notes, Johnny Cash At
Folsom Prison
1970 Best Album Notes, Nashville Skyline
1970 Male Vocalist of the Year
1970 Best Country Performance by a Duo or
Group with Vocal, "If I Were A Carpenter", with June Carter Cash
1987 Best Spoken Word or Non-musical
Album, Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions, with Carl
Perkins, Chips Moman, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Ricky Nelson, Roy
Orbison and Sam Phillips
1991 Living Legend Award
1994 Best Folk Album, American Recordings
1998 Best Country Album, Unchained
1999 Lifetime Achievement
2000 Best Country Male Vocal, "Solitary
Man"
2002 Best Country Album, Timeless: Hank
Williams Tribute (Cash contributed a cover of "I Dreamed About Mama Last
Night")
2003 Best Country Male Vocal, "Give My
Love To Rose"
2003 Best Short Form Video, "Hurt", with
Mark Romanek
MTV Video Music Awards
Best Cinematography for "Hurt".
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