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Johnny Cash Wiki Biography

J.R. “Johnny” Cash was born on 28 February 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas USA, and was a legendary musician and singer, writer and also an actor, acclaimed by many experts as one of the most influential singers of the second half of the 20th century He is particularly known for such  songs as ‘Ring of Fire’, ‘Man in Black’, ‘I Walk The Line’ and ‘Folsom Prison Blues, among many others. He passed away in 2003.

You might wonder – ‘how rich was Johnny Cash?’ Well Cash’s net worth is estimated by authoritative sources to be over $120 million, earned during his varied career in the entertainment industry spanning nearly six decades.

His life as a kid was not very easy; his family’s economic conditions were not good, so Cash had to work hard in the cotton fields during the depression, still being very young. This experience later inspired many of his songs, and maybe that is partly why he became so famous, as many people were able to relate to Cash’s songs. When Johnny was 12 years old he started to show more interest in music, especially gospel and other genre he heard on the radio; he was bought a guitar, was tutored by his mother, and soon started to write songs too. Later he even released an album entitled ‘My Mother’s Hymn Book’.

Johnny joined the US Air Force in 1950, and served in Germany as a radio operator – apparently the first to pick-up the news that Stalin had died – where he formed his first band too. He was discharged in 1954 as a Staff Sergeant.

In 1955 Johnny moved to Memphis, working selling musical instruments, but playing with ‘The Tennessee Two’ – Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant – and they were soon signed by Sun Records and released ‘Cry! Cry! Cry!’ and ‘Hey Porter’. These two songs, followed by what became his signature tune -“Folsom Prison Blues” – soon became big hits, and added considerably to  Cash’s net worth.

Johnny subsequently toured extensively, as did many popular artists of the period, before TV became widely available and videos were non-existent. He invariably began his performances with ‘Hello – I’m Johnny Cash’ followed by Folsom Prison Blues. His health certainly suffered from the workload that this lifestyle generated.

Johnny released many more successful songs and albums, and step by step became famous around the world, especially as he was able to appeal to several music genres without apparent effort. He is credited with more than 50 studio albums – ‘The Fabulous Johnny Cash’, ‘All Aboard the Blue Train’, ‘I Walk the Line’ perhaps being the most famous – 10 live and 10 gospel albums, to say nothing of many collaborative albums, including four with The Highwaymen – himself, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson – many of which rose high in various charts around the world.

Johnny was also popular because of his support for human rights – especially for Native Americans – which were often the subject of his songs. His ‘man in black’ persona was supposed to reflect his concern for the poverty stricken and down-trodden, but actually began because the clothes didn’t show sign of wear during heavy concert schedules, although his later song “I’m the Man in Black’ was certainly heartfelt and very popular.

In 1969 Johnny started to host ‘The Johnny Cash Show’ on the ABC network, which featured numerous guest stars including  Kenny Rogers, Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton, Ray Charles and many others,  and had a significant impact on Johnny’s net worth during the three years it was aired.

In addition to this, Johnny appeared in other television shows and movies. Some of them include ‘Shotgun Slade’, ‘A Gunfight’, ‘Little House on the Prairie’, plus several “Johnny Cash Specials”, and which also contributed to Cash’s net worth.

There is no surprise that Johnny Cash was rewarded with many honors during his career, including Grammy Awards, and Country Music Association Awards. What is more Cash was uniquely inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll, Gospel, Country Music and Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame. He was rewarded with Kennedy Center Honors in 1996, and with the National Medal of Arts in 2001.

Johnny Cash also found the time to write – he released “Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words”(1975), “Man in White”, a fiction about apostle Paul(1986), and “Cash: The Autobiography”(1997), with Patrick Carr, all of which contributed to his net worth too.

In his personal life, Johnny was married to Vivian Liberto (1954-68) with whom he had four daughters, but his frequent absences on tour eventually saw them separate, perhaps hastened by his meeting June Carter, a fellow performer, who he married in 1968 and remained with until her death following complications from heart surgery in 2003. They had a son together, John Carter Cash also a musician. Johnny died just four months after June, officially from complications with diabetes from which he had suffered for several years, .

Despite rumours and his affinity with prisoners – including performing in jails in the US and Sweden, with the live albums proving extremely popular – Cash never spent more than one night in jail, for minor misdemeanours or misunderstandings. However, at various times he was addicted to prescription drugs, initially amphetamines helping him stay awake during the aforementioned heavy concert tours, then as painkillers. These certainly caused some difficulties, and periods of rehabilitation, but seldom effected his performances.

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Johnny Cash Trademarks

1. Would often start his concerts with his signature “Folsom Prison Blues”
2. The “Boom-Chicka-Boom” sound of his backup band
3. His tough “outlaw” image and his defiant attitude
4. His songs often had an underlying social meaning, and he expressed his disgust at injustice
5. Many of his songs are about outlaws or tough men who have had hard lives
6. Always introduced himself with the words “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”
7. Deep baritone voice with southern accent
8. Often wears black clothing

Johnny Cash Quotes

• I kept thinking I could have been down there listening with the prisoners. Only been in jail twice, and just overnight, but you don’t need much to see what it’s like. Both times it was for pills, dexedrine. Second time I woke up in a Georgia jail not knowing how I got there. Could’ve ended up on a chain gang, but the jailer was a fan of mine and he let me go.
• [on performing at Folsom Prison] A prison audience is the most exciting in the world. The men are with you, feeding you every second, Maybe because they need you so bad…I gave them a stiff shot of realism, singing about the things they talk about, the outside, shooting, escaping, girl friends, and coming to the end. They knew it was for them. Just them and me.
• Ain’t nothin’ too weird for me. People call me wild. Not really though, I’m not.I guess I’ve never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I’m country.
• Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
• You’ve got a song you’re singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you’ve got to make them think that you’re one of them sitting out there with them too. They’ve got to be able to relate to what you’re doing.
• After about three lessons the voice teacher said, “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way”.
• You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.
• You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
• [in 2002, on his beloved brother Jack, who died in 1943 when Johnny was 11] There’s never been two months gone by that I haven’t dreamed about him. He’s tried to help turn me to the way of life.
• I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.
• [in acknowledgment of his similarity to today’s “gangsta” rappers] I wouldn’t let anybody influence me into thinking I was doing the wrong thing by singing about death, hell and drugs. Beause I’ve always done that, and I always will.
• I did not vote for Mr. Bush [President George W. Bush]. Let’s leave it at that.
• I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
• How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash Important Facts

• Father-in-law of Jimmy Tittle.
• Grandfather of Dustin Tittle and Kacy Tittle.
• At the Country Music Awards 1969, he was given the award for “Entertainer of Year”.
• Has a species of tarantula named for him, ‘Aphonopelma johnnycashi.’ The tarantula in question is black, and can be found in the area around Folsom.
• One of his biggest fans is Jackass star Johnny Knoxville. The two became friends before Cash died.
• Appears on a nondenominated USA commemorative postage stamp in the Music Icons series, issued 5 June 2013. Price on day of issue was 46¢.
• Johnny’s maternal great-grandfather Philip James Hurst (1840-1912) served as a corporal in Company A of the 4th Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry (Rutledge’s) during the War Between the States. Philip’s brother Jacob also served the same unit.
• His father was a soldier in the United States Army unit under General John J. Pershing that hunted Mexican bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico in the early 1900s.
• In his autobiography, he admitted that he and his early band, The Tennessee Three (also known as “The Tennessee Two”), were self-taught and limited in their musical ability and adaptability, resulting in several songs sounding similar to each other and possibly limiting the amount of musical experimentation Cash could engage in.
• According to the biography “Johnny Cash: The Life of an American Icon” by Stephen Miller, while Cash was in the Air Force and serving as a code intercept operator at Landsberg AFB in Germany, he was the first American radio operator to receive the news of the death of Joseph Stalin.
• According to the tell-all books “Anchored In Love”, by Cash’s son John Carter Cash, and “I Was There When It Happened”, by longtime friend and band member Marshall Grant, Cash was addicted to drugs for most of his adult life. Cash confessed much of this in “Johnny Cash: The Autobiography”, published in 1997 by Harper Collins. He did not completely stop using drugs after his well-storied withdrawal in 1967. He was drug-free from 1970 through 1977, when he started taking amphetamines again. A 1983 attack by an ostrich (the animal was part of Cash’s menagerie near Nashville) required hospitalization, where it was discovered that he was sneaking more painkillers than he’d been prescribed. He entered the Betty Ford Clinic in 1983 and stayed clean for a short time. His next relapse put him into Nashville’s Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center in 1989. After another battle with drugs in the early 1990s, he discovered that his wife, June Carter Cash, and his son, John Carter Cash, were both addicted to narcotics. The younger Cash cleaned up shortly before the deaths of his parents in 2003. According to John Carter Cash, his mother never confronted her addiction. It is not known for certain whether or not Johnny Cash ever completely extricated himself from drug abuse.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6320 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 73-76. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
• His album “Ring of Fire” (1964) was the first country album to ever reach the top of the US pop charts.
• Stepfather-in-law of Nick Lowe.
• Recorded over 1500 songs throughout his career.
• Was friends with Elvis Presley.
• Great-uncle of Kelly Cash.
• In the 1980s, he found love letters to wife June Carter Cash from Elvis Presley in their attic. Upon finding these, he burned them.
• Godfather of John Keach, the son of Jane Seymour and James Keach.
• 2001: He was awarded the American National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment of the Arts.
• Along with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, he was a member of celebrated “The Million Dollar Quartet”. They got that name because they were money-makers for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records Label.
• Johnny’s “Hurt” was the theme song of WWE’s Raw Tribute to the late Eddie Guerrero. The song plays while Guerrero’s memorial is playing.
• Among “The Highwaymen”, Johnny was old friends (or “blood brothers” as he put it) with Waylon Jennings. Kris Kristofferson idolized Cash and the two become close friends while in “The Highwaymen”. Cash was least close with Willie Nelson, but the two were always friendly, despite the competitive eye they kept on one another.
• Proposed to wife June Carter Cash over 30 times before she finally said “Yes”.
• His guitarist, Bob Wootton of The Tennessee Three, acted as Cash’s stunt double anytime there was a scene that required him to ride a horse because he had a fear of horses.
• Founded his first band called “Landsberg Barbarians” while being a radio operator of the US Air Force in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.
• Mentioned in the song “Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me” by Reunion.
• Apart from his performances at Folsom Prison and San Quentin, Cash also performed at Österåkeranstalten (The Österåker 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.
• January 2006: His long-time lakeside home in Hendersonville, TN, was bought by a corporation owned by The Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb.
• 10/24/03: Stepdaughter Rosey Nix Adams, a country music singer, died. Cause of death was accidental carbon monoxide poisoning from six heaters on her bus. She was 45.
• Stepfather of Carlene Carter and Rosey Nix Adams.
• His good friend Kris Kristofferson admitted that he wrote his well-known and not-entirely-flattering “Pilgrim” about Cash.
• After his good friend Carl Perkins fell from grace due to a crippling car accident and alcoholism, Johnny took him on a touring guitarist and supported Perkins by performing songs written by him.
• Contrary to popular belief, he never served more than one night in prison (he was held in jail overnight once after being caught smuggling 1,163 amphetamine tablets across from Mexico). He actually wrote “Folsom Prison Blues” after seeing the documentary Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951).
• Kingsland, Arkansas (pop. 477), is also the birthplace of Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, generally regarded as one of the greatest football coaches of all time (University of Alabama).
• The band Coldplay were supposed to record a song titled “Til Kingdom Comes” with him for their album “X&Y”, but Cash died before that. They added the song as a hidden track and dedicated it to Cash. In their current “Twisted Logic Tour”, they are playing this song in all the venues in addition to playing a cover of Johnny Cash’s famous song “Ring of Fire”. On the two nights (6 & 7 September 2005) at Madison Square Garden, New York they also dedicated the song “Til Kingdom Comes” to the victims of hurricane Katrina.
• Stated in an interview with Larry King that his favorite country singer is Dwight Yoakam.
• In the 1970s, he tried to help his close friend, legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland, restart his career by bringing him into the studio to record.
• The video for “Hurt”, from the album “The Man Comes Around” was voted greatest music video ever made accoridng to a panel assembled by the UK newspaper “The Guardian”.
• Was ranked #1 of the 40 greatest men in country music.
• In his song “Man in Black” he explained that he wore predominately black clothing to honour and remind others of the suffering of the world’s poor and oppressed.
• He was given the name “J.R.” because his parents Ray Cash and Carrie Cash couldn’t agree on a name, only on initials. He adopted “John R. Cash” when he joined the Air Force, which did not accept initials.
• Cash’s career was at an all-time low in the 1980s and he realised his record label of nearly 30 years, Columbia, was growing indifferent to him and wasn’t properly marketing him, so to kill the relationship with the label before they did, Cash recorded “Chicken in Black”. An intentionally awful song about Johnny’s brain being transplanted to a chicken, it ironically turned out to be a larger commercial success than any of his other recent material. However, it wasn’t long after “Chicken in Black” that Columbia and Cash parted ways.
• During his early shows The Tennessee Three, he would frequently make mocking introductions of his bandmates. He would introduce laconic guitarist Luther Perkins, who was secretly terrified of performing in public, and add either that he was in “rigor mortis” or that his pulse had been checked beforehand to make sure he was still alive. Then he would introduce bassist Marshall Grant, who would usually hop around and dance with great energy as he chewed gum at shows, as “playing the chewing gum.”.
• He was invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1972. President Richard Nixon’s office requested that he play “Okie from Muskogee” (a Merle Haggard song that scorned “hippies”, youthful marijuana users and war protesters) and “Welfare Cadillac” (a Guy Drake song that derides the integrity of welfare recipients). Reportedly he refused to play either song because he found both songs morally reprehensible. However, it was also reported that he refused to play them because he did not have enough time to learn the songs with the band before the performance. He ended up playing a series of his own more left-leaning, politically-charged songs, including “The Ballad of Ira H. Hayes” (about a Native-American World War II Marine hero who helped raise the American flag on Iwo Jima but was subjected to ferocious racism upon his return to Arizona) and “Man in Black” (which contains angry, anti-war lyrics, which Cash almost certainly wrote about the Vietnam War).
• He was voted the 31st Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
• Member of The Highwaymen, with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome recorded several albums in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Was often the subject of humorous sketches on Saturday Night Live (1975). He was usually portrayed by the late Phil Hartman and, later, has been occasionally played by Darrell Hammond. Coincidentally, both funnymen were best known for playing another famous Arkansas native, Bill Clinton.
• His older brother (the sibling Johnny was closest to as a child) died in a horrible accident involving a buzz saw when Johnny was young, and it was never clear whether it was accidental, suicide, or even murder. Wracked with guilt, Johnny, by most accounts, never got over the death (it was a little-known, personal obsession of his to investigate the incident) and it is widely thought that his dark world view was shaped by it.
• Is mentioned in the Danish band Nephew’s single “Superliga”.
• After the 1950s, when he wrote almost all of the songs he performed, he performed many covers. On the average album, he was the writer of about a third of the songs.
• Cash and “American Recordings” posted a “thank you” to the Nashville country music industry in Billboard Magazine after winning the Grammy for best country record for “Unchained” in the form of the infamous photo of Johnny angrily giving the middle finger to the camera taken back in 1969 during his San Quentin prison performance. Cash did this because he was enraged by Nashville having pretty much left behind him and other aging “country” artists who had defined the genre to make room for the more pop-oriented new country artists, like Garth Brooks.
• Although he could bear it, he disliked being defined as a “country” artist, feeling that his music wasn’t really genre-defined and noting that he often stood well outside of the Nashville mainstream (particularly towards the end of his career). Technically, his music contains elements of rock ‘n’ roll, folk music, bluegrass, blues and gospel as well as country-style music.
• He had English, and smaller amounts of Scottish and Irish, ancestry. His surname, “Cash”, traced back to Scotland.
• Backed by the “Tennessee Two”: Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins. Later named: The Tennessee Three, with W.S. Holland (drums) added. After Perkins’ death, he was replaced by Bob Wootton.
• He was friends with every U.S. President starting with Richard Nixon. He was least close with the last two, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, because of a personal distrust for both men and because of his declining health. He was probably closest with Jimmy Carter, who was actually a very close friend and distant relation of his wife, June Carter Cash. None of these friendships were about politics, as he never particularly supported any administration but was just friendly with the men.
• He was often at odds with his producers after he had discovered with his first producer (Sam Phillips) that his voice was better suited to a stripped-down musical style. Most famously he disagreed with Jack Clement over his sound, Clement having tried to give Cash’s songs a “twangy” feel and to add strings and barbershop-quartet-style singers. His successful collaboration with Rick Rubin was in part due to Rubin seeking a minimalist sound for his songs.
• He had long since kicked his drug habit when, in a bizarre series of events in the early 1980s, he was attacked by a male ostrich he had been keeping on his farm after he had threatened the huge bird. He was put onto painkillers to survive the critical injuries and quickly became addicted. He checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic, successfully quit them and made friends with Ozzy Osbourne during his stay.
• He went through much of the 1970s on a sanctimonious cloud, having associated himself with evangelists, turned his shows into gospel performances where he encouraged people to accept Jesus Christ and condemned blatant sexuality and violence in culture. Cash said in the 1990s that, although his faith remained as strong as ever and many of his songs expressed this, his attitudes had changes and he found his 1970s overzealousness distasteful, having learned to respect that people should have their own beliefs.
• His size varied considerably over time. Standing 6′ 2″, he weighed about 200 pounds as a young man, but then his weight plummeted to an unhealthy 140 pounds when his drug addiction was at its peak in the mid-1960s. His weight increased when he kicked his habits, and he eventually became overweight, weighing about 250 pounds by his 50s.
• Ex-brother-in-law of Ray Liberto.
• His songwriting went from a brief process to a very long one as he aged and his health declined. He wrote the song “Big River” while on a short boat-ride across the Hudson River in the 1950s, while he spent weeks crafting “The Man Comes Around,” one of the last songs he wrote.
• He was addicted to speed (usually with alcohol or morphine as a chaser) through much of his 20s until 1967, when June Carter Cash and numerous members of his friends and family staged an arduous but successful intervention. It is thought that Cash had an addiction personality which he may have inherited from his genes, as many members of his family were addicts to various vices.
• The United States Air Force would not accept “J.R.” as a given name when he enlisted, so he became John R. Cash. He signed for Sun Records in 1955 (a year after his discharge) and had his name changed again … to Johnny Cash.
• Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and Johnny are the only three musicians to have been inducted both into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• The scar to the right of his mouth was the result of a botched attempt to remove a cyst while he was serving in the Air Force in Germany.
• Son-in-law of Mother Maybelle Carter.
• The son of poor cotton farmers, whose economic and personal struggles during the Depression (when Johnny was growing up) shaped him as a person and inspired many of his songs.
• His album, “The Man Comes Around”, features his rendition of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”. NIN’s frontman Trent Reznor admitted that at first he was angry about the cover, as he wrote it from a deeply personal point of view. However, when he heard the song and saw the video for the first time, he was deeply moved and found Cash’s cover beautiful and meaningful.
• Father, with June Carter Cash, of John Carter Cash.
• He suffered from a fear of flying and snakes.
• He chose songs for a running series of compilations of songs that comprised the main themes of his work. The first three compilations are titled “Love”, mostly songs he wrote for June Carter Cash, “God”, a series of gospels and “Murder”, perhaps his favorite subject, but one whose title he encouraged people “not to go out and do”. Released slightly later was “Life”, mostly songs about hard work and economic struggling.
• His album “Bitter Tears” contains original songs told from the viewpoint of Native Americans.
• Recorded entire albums live in Folsom and San Quentin Prisons, in front of highly receptive audiences of convicts.
• In the years shortly before his death, he recorded songs by other contemporary artists, including cover versions of U2’s “One”, Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”, Richard Thompson’s “Tear Stained Letter”, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”, Loudon Wainwright III’s “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry”, Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and the song “Thirteen” written especially for him by gothic rocker Glenn Danzig.
• Once had his truck catch on fire and burn down half of a national forest, when the judge asked him why he did it, he said, “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead.”
• Brother of country singer Tommy Cash, Reba Hancock and Joanne Cash Yates.
• Is the only person besides Hank Williams to have been inducted into the Songwriters, Country Music and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
• Father, with Vivian Liberto, of Rosanne Cash, Tara Cash, Cindy Cash and Kathy Cash.
• November 1997: Treated for pneumonia.

Johnny Cash Filmography

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