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John R. Cash was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. He was known for his deep, calm, bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his backing band, the Tennessee Three, that was characterized by its train-like chugging guitar rhythms, a rebelliousness coupled with an i…
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entertainment · American country singer (1932–2003) · singer-songwriter · actor · guitarist · singer · composer · country musician · bandleader · also Johnny Cash, The Man in Black, John R. Cash, J. R. Cash, Cash
Born 26 February 1932 · Died 12 September 2003 · Q42775
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“t really been dealt with at that point.”
“June and I would have stayed over.”
“You have to keep me working because I will die if I don”
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“the biggest sinner of them all”
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“s song choices were not knowing them and having fairly short notice to rehearse them, rather than any political reason. However, Cash added, even if Nixon”
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“he felt a real connection with those musicians and very validated ... It was very good for him: he was in his element. He absolutely understood what they were tapping into, and loved it”
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“prisoner who has long paid for his crime”
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“s death, receiving the news via Morse code. His daughter later said Cash had recounted the story many times over the years. While at Landsberg, he formed his first band,”
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Published video “Johnny and June sang “Pack Up Your Sorrows” on the August 16th, 1969 episode of The Johnny Cash Show”.
Published video “ON THIS DAY in 1957, Home of the Blues was released with Sun Records.”.
Published video “My Children Walk In Truth”.
Published video “He Turned Water Into Wine”.
Published video “Gospel Road”.
Published video “Far Side Banks Of Jordan”.
Published video “I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal”.
Published video “Over The Next Hill We'll Be Home”.
Published video “That Ragged Old Flag”.
Published video “I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone”.
Published video “Angel Band”.
Published video “In The Sweet By And By”.
Published video “ON THIS DAY Johnny won the 7th annual Golden Boot Award for his contributions to western TV & films”.
Published video “Johnny Cash performed a Ride This Train segment on The Johnny Cash Show which aired on August 2 1969”.
Published video “On July 31, 1970, Johnny released the track “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down””.
Published video “ON THIS DAY “ A Boy Named Sue” from the album Johnny Cash at San Quentin was released.”.
Published video “ON THIS DAY Johnny’s song “I Walk The Line” reached #1 on the Billboard Country charts.”.
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Published video “Johnny Cash Reads The New Testament: Hebrews Chapter 12 Full reading available on YouTube🖤”.
Published video “Today we celebrate 250 years of American Independence 🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July”.
Published video “Happy 250th America 🇺🇸 Celebrate Independence Day with Ragged Old Flag, written by Johnny in 1974”.
Released album “Songwriter”.
Released album “Johnny Cash and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra”.
Released album “Out Among the Stars”.
Released album “Legends”.
A book was published about 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
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Released album “American VI: Ain’t No Grave”.
Released album “More Songs from Johnny’s Personal File”.
Released album “American V: A Hundred Highways”.
Released album “I Walk the Line… Songs of Love”.
Released album “My Mother’s Hymn Book”.
Died 2003-09-12.
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Awarded Americana Award for Artist of the Year (2003).
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“There is more music to be released that is unheard, there are some great recordings.”
Released album “American IV: The Man Comes Around”.
Awarded "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech Award (2002).
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Released album “American III: Solitary Man”.
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).
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Cash told NPR journalist Terry Gross that he "sat on the porch" with Cannon "day after day" after arriving in Memphis in 1954
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Released album “Unchained”.
Released album “Blue Train”.
Released album “Christmas Album”.
Cash collaborated with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Unchained (also known as American Recordings II), which won the Best Country Album Grammy in 1998
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Released album “American Recordings”.
Sang "The Wanderer", the closing track of U2's album Zooropa
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“s son, John Carter Cash – contains eleven songs, recorded in 1993 with guest artists including Vince Gill and the Black Keys. Songwriter”
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992).
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Started care at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center in Loma Linda, California, for his final rehabilitation treatment
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Released album “The Mystery of Life”.
Released album “Country Christmas”.
Awarded Grammy Legend Award (1991).
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Sang a version of "Man in Black" for the Christian punk band One Bad Pig's album I Scream Sunday
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Released album “Country Boy”.
Entered Nashville's Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center
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Released album “Boom Chicka Boom”.
Released album “Water From the Wells of Home”.
Released album “Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series”.
This time to watch over Waylon Jennings (who was recovering from a heart attack), Jennings suggested that Cash have himself checked into the hospital for his own heart condition
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British post-punk musicians Marc Riley (formerly of the Fall) and Jon Langford (the Mekons) put together 'Til Things Are Brighter, a tribute album featuring mostly British-based indie-rock acts' interpretations of Cash's
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Released album “Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town”.
Released album “Class of ’55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming”.
Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle Paul
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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; according to Hilburn, Columbia still had Cash under contract at the time, so specia
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Released album “Heroes”.
Released album “Believe in Him”.
Released album “Rainbow”.
Followed by Highwaymen 2 in 1990, and concluding with Highwaymen – The Road Goes On Forever in 1995
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Cash released a self-parody recording titled "The Chicken in Black" about Cash's brain being transplanted into a chicken and Cash receiving a bank robber's brain in return
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Caused by an incident in which he was kicked and wounded by an ostrich on his farm
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Released album “Johnny 99”.
Appeared as a heroic sheriff in Murder in Coweta County, based on a real-life Georgia murder case, which co-starred Andy Griffith as his nemesis
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Released album “The Adventures of Johnny Cash”.
“It was straight-down-the-line rebellious. Someone had made me a mixtape in 1982 of the Sun Records stuff and it just blew me away. I knew him since as this kind of cabaret figure – he had faded, definitely, but I still had a lot of regard for him, and that album seemed to get him into some interesting places.”
Released album “The Baron”.
Starred in The Pride of Jesse Hallam, winning fine reviews for a film that called attention to adult illiteracy
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Released album “Sings with the BC Goodpasture Christian School”.
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
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Released album “Rockabilly Blues”.
Released album “Classic Christmas”.
And which ended up being released on an independent label even with Cash still under contract to Columbia
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Released album “Silver”.
Released album “A Believer Sings the Truth”.
Released album “I Would Like to See You Again”.
Released album “Gone Girl”.
Released album “The Rambler”.
Awarded Horatio Alger Award (1977).
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Released album “The Last Gunfighter Ballad”.
Released album “One Piece at a Time”.
Made commercials for Lionel Trains, for which he also wrote the music
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A concert at Tennessee State Prison was videotaped for TV broadcast
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Released album “Look at Them Beans”.
Released album “John R. Cash”.
Released album “The Johnny Cash Children’s Album”.
Released album “Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories”.
CBS ran his one-hour TV special entitled Riding The Rails, a musical history of trains
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Released album “The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me”.
Released album “Ragged Old Flag”.
Released album “Any Old Wind That Blows”.
Released album “Johnny Cash and His Woman”.
Released album “A Thing Called Love”.
Cash performed at the Österåker Prison in Sweden
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Released album “America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song”.
Released album “Man in Black”.
Released album “Johnny Cash & Jerry Lee Lewis Sing Hank Williams”.
Released album “Original Golden Hits, Volume III”.
Released album “The World of Johnny Cash”.
Released album “Sunday Down South”.
Released album “The Singing Story Teller”.
Released album “Born to Sing”.
Released album “Dvorana slávy: Country & Western”.
Released album “Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison Blues”.
Released album “The Walls of a Prison”.
Released album “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”.
Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised hippies, young drug users and Vietnam war protesters), "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song whi
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Cash recorded a reading of John G
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They had one child together, John Carter Cash, born March 3, 1970.
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Released album “More of “Old Golden Throat””.
Released album “The Holy Land”.
Released album “King and Queen of Country”.
Released album “Get Rhythm”.
Cash became an international hit when he eclipsed even the Beatles by selling 6
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Released album “Show Time”.
Released album “This Is Johnny Cash”.
Released album “Original Golden Hits, Volume II”.
Released album “Original Golden Hits, Volume I”.
Released album “Old Golden Throat”.
Released album “The Heart of Cash”.
At a concert at the London Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada
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Released album “From Sea to Shining Sea”.
13 years after they first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Cash proposed to June, during a live performance in London, Ontario
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At the Rosebud Reservation, close to the historical landmark of the massacre at Wounded Knee, to raise money to help build a school
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Released album “Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits, Volume 1”.
Cash's duet with June Carter, "Jackson", won a Grammy Award
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 1”.
Released album “Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter”.
In Walker County, Georgia, after police found he was carrying a bag of prescription pills when in a car accident
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“nothing in his blood but amphetamines”
Released album “Everybody Loves a Nut”.
Released album “Happiness Is You”.
In recognition of his activism, Cash was adopted by the Seneca Nation's Turtle Clan
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Because of Cash's severe abuse of alcohol and other drugs, his constant touring, his repeated acts of adultery with other women, and his close relationship with singer June Carter
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Was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers
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Released album “Orange Blossom Special”.
Cash and June Carter appeared on Pete Seeger's TV show, Rainbow Quest, on which Cash explained his start as an activist for Native Americans:
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Released album “Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West”.
Released album “Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash”.
Cash posted a letter as an advertisement in Billboard, calling the record industry cowardly: "D
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Released album “I Walk the Line”.
Released album “Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian”.
Released album “Keep on the Sunny Side”.
Coming off the chart success of his previous album I Walk the Line, he recorded the aforementioned album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
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Released album “The Christmas Spirit”.
Released album “Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash”.
Released album “Blood, Sweat and Tears”.
Released album “All Aboard The Blue Train”.
Released album “The Sound of Johnny Cash”.
Released album “Hymns From the Heart”.
Released album “Now Here’s Johnny Cash”.
Cash moved his family to a hilltop home overlooking Casitas Springs, California
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Released album “The Lure of the Grand Canyon”.
Released album “Sings Hank Williams”.
Released album “Ride This Train”.
Released album “Now, There Was a Song!”.
Released album “Songs of Our Soil”.
Released album “Hymns by Johnny Cash”.
Released album “Greatest!”.
Released album “Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous”.
Released album “The Fabulous Johnny Cash”.
Cash left Phillips to sign a lucrative offer with Columbia Records
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At San Quentin State Prison in California
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Released album “Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar”.
Elvis Presley dropped in on Phillips while Carl Perkins was in the studio cutting new tracks, with Jerry Lee Lewis backing him on piano
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When signing with Sun Records, he began using the name "Johnny Cash"
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Cash made his first recordings at Sun, "Hey, Porter" and "Cry
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One month after his discharge, they were married at St
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Was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant and returned to Texas
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Cash moved to Memphis, Tennessee
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While in Air Force basic training, Cash met 17-year-old Italian-American Vivian Liberto at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas
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Shortly after the start of the Korean War
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Became a Christian at the Central Baptist Church in Dyess, Arkansas, affiliated to the Southern Baptist Convention, and began singing publicly there
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Cash's older brother Jack, with whom he was close, was nearly cut in two by an unguarded table saw at work at age 15
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Born 1932-02-26.
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In Kingsland, Arkansas, to Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers) and Ray Cash
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