The Essential Johnny Cash

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And what makes it continue to resonate is not only the quality of the material, but also the voice that delivers it: deep, craggy, passionate. Yeah I'm sure plenty of them deserved to be there, but I'm also sure plenty of them didn't, maybe in there for simple possession of a drug or stuff like that. As a forecast for a long career, look no further than the four hits that put Cash on the radio and in jukeboxes: I Walk The Line, Cry, Cry, Cry, So Doggone Lonesome and Folsom Prison Blues. Cash used his stardom and economic status to bring awareness to the issues surrounding the Native American people.

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.Cash was awarded a Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his version of Diamond's "Solitary Man," his third straight album to take home hardware from the prestigious institution. His Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965) was an experimental double record, mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration.

Taught guitar by his mother and a childhood friend, Cash began playing and writing songs at the age of 12. He was baptized in 1944 in the Tyronza River as a member of the Central Baptist Church of Dyess, Arkansas.He had three older siblings, Roy, Margaret Louise, and Jack, and three younger siblings, Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist).

Bill DeMain is a correspondent for BBC Glasgow, a regular contributor to MOJO, Classic Rockand Mental Floss,and the author of six books, including the best-selling Sgt. As his career was taking off in the late 1950s, Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. JC Unit One, Johnny Cash's private tour bus from 1980 until 2003, was put on exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2007. The outdated US Navy's winter blue uniform used to be referred to by sailors as "Johnny Cashes", as the uniform's shirt, tie, and trousers are solid black.Also in 1986, Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle Paul. To break the intensity, Cash interjects funny asides such as: “This is being recorded for an album, so I can’t say ‘hell’ or ‘shit’ or anything like that.

After June's death in May 2003, Cash believed that his only reason for living was his music; he died only four months later.According to biographer Robert Hilburn, the disease was originally misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease, and Cash even announced to his audience that he had Parkinson's after nearly collapsing on stage in Flint, Michigan, on October 25, 1997. He added, "With the Vietnam War as painful in my mind as it was in most other Americans, I wore it 'in mourning' for the lives that could have been'. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Dießen, at the Ammersee Lake in Bavaria, 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. On October 14, 2014, the City of Folsom unveiled phase 1 of the Johnny Cash Trail to the public with a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Rosanne Cash. The resulting guitar-vocal collection of Cash’s own songs and eclectic covers ( Leonard Cohen’s Bird On A Wire, Nick Lowe’s The Beast In Me and Glenn Danzig’s Thirteen) is a compelling audio-vérité portrait, the first in a series of five releases over 10 years.