Mr. Johnny Cash

Johnny cash, the man in black is a country legand, him and the Tennessee two, made a name for themselves in the mid 50's. 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 Cash's 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 didn't do it, my truck did, and it's 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}

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