Mr. Johnny Cash
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Johnny cash, the man in black is a country legand, him and the Tennessee two, made a name for themselves in the mid 50s. There orignal songs where gospil, but when trying to get a record deal was turned down for the gospil ,but then played a song Johnny cash wrote. The first hit was “Cry,Cry,Cry”, other hits were ” i walk the line”,”folsom Prison blues” , and others such as ” man in black”” Hey Porter”, and ” get rhythm”. Johnny cash marride his early wife Vivian Liberto in 1954, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee.His band The Tennessee two consited of Luther Perkins and bass player Marshall Grant. They were known for there sound, people say they had a “boom-chik-a-Boom” sound like a train. Johnny wore dark clothing which got him the name “man in black”, and hestarted his performanced with the simple entrance “Hello im Johnny Cash”. {wikipedia}
according to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said ” go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.”, cash won over sun records and relesed “Cry,Cry,Cry” and “Hey Porter” in 55.
As his career was taking off in the early 1960s, Cash began drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines. For a brief time, Cash rented an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was heavily addicted to amphetamines. Cash used the drugs to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his erratic behavior, many not noticing the signs of his worsening addiction.Although in many ways spiraling out of control, his frenetic creativity was delivering hits. the 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 written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore.The song 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 Cashs personal “ring of fire” (drug dependency and alcoholism.)Cash sometimes spoke of his erratic, drug-induced behavior with some degree of bemused detachment. In his 1997 autobiography, he told of how his truck caught fire and managed to cause a forest fire that burnt down half of a national forest. When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said in his then-flippant style, “I didnt do it, my truck did, and its dead.”. { wikipedia}
While in the air force Cash was inspired by the movie “inside the walls of Folsom Prison” to write an early draft of “folsom Prison
Blues”.Cash felt great compassion for prisoners. As he wrote in his 1997 autobiography, he began performing concerts at various
prisons starting in the late 1950s. These performances led to a pair of highly successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
(1968) and Johnny Cash at San Quentin (1969).The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a powerful rendition of his classic
“Folsom Prison Blues”, while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit single “A Boy Named Sue” that reached No. 1 on
the country charts and No. 2 on the US Top Ten pop charts.Apart from his performances at Folsom Prison and San Quentin, and
various other U.S. correctional facilities, Cash also performed at Цsterеkeranstalten (The Цsterеker Prison) north of Stockholm,
Sweden in 1972. The recording was released in 1973. Between the songs Cash can be heard speaking Swedish which was greatly
appreciated by the inmates.Shortly after his historic concert at Madison Square Garden in the waning days of the 1960s,
John Carter Cash was born. {wikipedia}
according to wikipedia 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”.From 1969 to 1971, Cash starred in his own television show. 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.Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was songwriter Kris Kristofferson. During a live performance of Kristoffersons “Sunday Mornin Comin 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.”
At the age 48 Johnny Cash is the youngest person to enter the country hall of fame. In the 80s Cash joined the highway
men with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson making two hit albums. Cash relapsed into addiction after a serious
stomach injury in 1983 caused by a bizarre incident in which he was kicked and critically wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm.
He was administered painkillers as part of the recovery process, which led to a return to substance abuse, and in 86 Cash was in
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