John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice; the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, which is characterized by train-sound guitar rhythms; a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; free prison concerts; and a trademark, all-black stage wardrobe, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black." He traditionally began his concerts by simply introducing himself, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," followed by his signature song "Folsom Prison Blues".
Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later stages of his career. His other signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm", and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers like "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson" (followed by many further duets after their marriage); and railroad songs including "Hey, Porter", "Orange Blossom Special", and "Rock Island Line". During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode.
J. R. Cash was born on February 26, 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers). He was the fourth of seven children, who were in birth order: Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R., Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist). He was primarily of English and Scottish descent. As an adult he traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart. Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family.
At birth, Cash was named J. R. Cash. When Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he started going by Johnny Cash.
In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas, a New Deal colony established to give poor families a chance to work land that they had a chance to own as a result. J.R. started working in cotton fields at the age of five, singing along with his family while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which led him later to write the song "Five Feet High and Rising". His family's economic and personal struggles during the Great Depression inspired many of his songs, especially those about other people facing similar difficulties. He had sympathy for the poor and working class.
Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack. In May 1944, Jack was pulled into a whirling head saw in the mill where he worked and was almost cut in two. He suffered for more than a week before dying on May 20, 1944, at the age of 15. Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. According to Cash: The Autobiography, his father was away that morning, but Johnny and his mother, and Jack himself, all had premonitions or a sense of foreboding about that day. His mother urged Jack to skip work and go fishing with his brother. Jack insisted on working since the family needed the money. On his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of Heaven and angels. Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven.
Cash's early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Taught guitar by his mother and a childhood friend, Cash began playing and writing songs at the age of twelve. When young, Cash had a high tenor voice, before becoming a bass-baritone after his voice changed. In high school, he sang on a local radio station. Decades later he released an album of traditional gospel songs, called My Mother's Hymn Book. He was also significantly influenced by traditional Irish music, which he heard performed weekly by Dennis Day on the Jack Benny radio programme
Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force on July 7, 1950. After basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and technical training at Brooks Air Force Base, both in San Antonio, Texas, Cash was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the U.S. Air Force Security Service at Landsberg, Germany, as a Morse Code operator intercepting Soviet Army transmissions. It was there he created his first band, named "The Landsberg Barbarians". He was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant on July 3, 1954, and returned to Texas. During his military service, he acquired a distinctive scar on the right side of his jaw as a result of surgery to remove a cyst.

Marriages and families


On July 18, 1951, while in Air Force training, Cash met 17-year-old Vivian Liberto at a roller skating rink in her native San Antonio, Texas. They dated for three weeks until Cash was deployed to Germany for a three-year tour. During that time, the couple exchanged hundreds of pages of love letters. On August 7, 1954, one month after his discharge, they were married at St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio. The ceremony was performed by her uncle, Vincent Liberto. They had four daughters: Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara. In 1961, Johnny moved his family to a hilltop home overlooking Casitas Springs, California, a small town south of Ojai on Highway 33. He had previously moved his parents to the area to run a small trailer park called The Johnny Cash Trailer Park. Johnny's drinking led to several run-ins with local law enforcement. Liberto later said that she had filed for divorce in 1966 because of Cash's severe drug and alcohol abuse, as well as constant touring, affairs with other women, and his close relationship with June Carter. Their four daughters were then raised by their mother.Cash met singer June Carter, of the famed Carter Family while on tour, and the two became infatuated with each other. In 1968, 13 years after they first met backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Cash proposed to June, during a live performance in London, Ontario. The couple married on March 1, 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky. They had one child together, John Carter Cash, born March 3, 1970.
Cash and Carter continued to work, raising their child, create music, and tour together for 35 years until June's death in May 2003. Throughout their marriage, June attempted to keep Cash off of amphetamines, often taking his drugs and flushing them down the toilet. June remained with him even throughout his multiple admissions for rehab treatment and years of drug abuse. After June's death, Cash believed that his only reason for living was his music. He died four months after her.

Career


Early career

In 1954, Cash and Vivian moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he sold appliances while studying to be a radio announcer. At night he played with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. Perkins and Grant were known as the Tennessee Two. Cash worked up the courage to visit the Sun Records studio, hoping to get a recording contract. He auditioned for Sam Phillips by singing mostly gospel songs, only to learn from the producer that he no longer recorded gospel music. It was once rumored that Phillips told Cash to "go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell", although in a 2002 interview Cash denied that Phillips made any such comment. Cash eventually won over the producer with new songs delivered in his early rockabilly style. In 1955, Cash made his first recordings at Sun, "Hey Porter" and "Cry! Cry! Cry!", which were released in late June and met with success on the country hit parade.
On December 4, 1956, Elvis Presley dropped in on Phillips while Carl Perkins was in the studio cutting new tracks, with Jerry Lee Lewis backing him on piano. Cash was also in the studio and the four started an impromptu jam session. Phillips left the tapes running and the recordings, almost half of which were gospel songs, survived. They have since been released under the title Million Dollar Quartet. In Cash: the Autobiography, Cash wrote that he was the farthest from the microphone and sang in a higher pitch to blend in with Elvis.
Cash's next record, "Folsom Prison Blues", made the country Top 5. His "I Walk the Line" became No. 1 on the country charts and entered the pop charts Top 20. "Home of the Blues" followed, recorded in July 1957. That same year, Cash became the first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. Although he was Sun's most consistently selling and prolific artist at that time, Cash felt constrained by his contract with the small label. Phillips did not want Cash to record gospel, and was paying him a 3% royalty rather than the standard rate of 5%. Presley had already left Sun, and Phillips was focusing most of his attention and promotion on Lewis.
In 1958 Cash left Phillips to sign a lucrative offer with Columbia Records. His single "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" became one of his biggest hits, and he recorded a collection of gospel songs for his second album for Columbia. But Cash left behind a sufficient backlog of recordings with Sun that Phillips continued to release new singles and albums from, featuring previously unreleased material until as late as 1964. Cash was in the unusual position of having new releases out on two labels concurrently. Sun's 1960 release, a cover of "Oh Lonesome Me", made it to No. 13 on the C&W charts.
(When RCA Victor signed Presley, it also bought his Sun Records masters. But when Cash departed for Columbia, Phillips retained the rights to the singer's Sun masters. Columbia eventually licensed some of these recordings for release on compilations after Cash's death.)Early in his career, Cash was given the teasing nickname The Undertaker by fellow artists because of his habit of wearing black clothes. He said he chose them because they were easier to keep looking clean on long tours.
In the early 1960s, Cash toured with the Carter Family, which by this time regularly included Mother Maybelle's daughters, Anita, June, and Helen. June later recalled admiring him from afar during these tours. In the 1960s, he appeared on Pete Seeger's short-lived television series Rainbow Quest. He also acted in and wrote and sang the opening theme for a 1961 film entitled Five Minutes to Live, later re-released as Door-to-door Maniac.
Cash's career was handled by Saul Holiff, a London, Ontario, promoter. Their relationship was the subject of Saul's son's biopic My Father and the Man in Black.

Outlaw image


As his career was taking off in the late 1950s, Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. For a brief time, he shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was deeply addicted to amphetamines. Cash used the stimulants to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction.
Although he was in many ways spiraling out of control, Cash could still deliver hits due to his frenetic creativity. His rendition of "Ring of Fire" was a crossover hit, reaching No. 1 on the country charts and entering the Top 20 on the pop charts. It was originally performed by June's sister, but the signature mariachi-style horn arrangement was provided by Cash. He said that it had come to him in a dream. Vivian Liberto claimed a different version of the origins of "Ring of Fire." In her book, I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny, Liberto says that Cash gave Carter the credit for monetary reasons.
In June 1965, Cash's camper caught fire during a fishing trip with his nephew Damon Fielder in Los Padres National Forest in California, triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres and nearly caused his death. Cash claimed that the fire was caused by sparks from a defective exhaust system on his camper, but Fielder thinks that Cash started a fire to stay warm and in his drugged condition failed to notice the fire getting out of control. When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said, "I didn't do it, my truck did, and it's dead, so you can't question it."
The fire destroyed 508 acres (206 ha), burning the foliage off three mountains and driving off forty-nine of the refuge's 53 endangered condors. Cash was unrepentant and claimed, "I don't care about your damn yellow buzzards." The federal government sued him and was awarded $125,172. Cash eventually settled the case and paid $82,001. He said he was the only person ever sued by the government for starting a forest fire.
Although Cash cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence. Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, he stayed only one night on each stay. On May 11, 1965, he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (He used this to write the song "Starkville City Jail", which he discussed on his live At San Quentin album.) While on tour that year, he was arrested October 4 in El Paso, Texas, by a narcotics squad. The officers suspected he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, but found instead 688 Dexedrine capsules (amphetamines) and 475 Equanil (sedatives or tranquilizers) tablets that the singer had hidden inside his guitar case. Because the pills were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a suspended sentence.
In this period of the mid-1960s, Cash released a number of concept albums. His Bitter Tears (1964) was devoted to spoken word and songs addressing the plight of Native Americans and mistreatment by the government. While initially reaching charts, this album met with resistance from some fans and radio stations, which rejected its controversial take on social issues. The album was considered lost until the early 21st century. In 2011 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. This film was aired on PBS in February and November 2016. His Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965) was an experimental double record, mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration.
Reaching a low with his severe drug addiction and destructive behavior, Cash was divorced from his first wife and had performances cancelled. But, he continued to find success. In 1967, Cash's duet with June Carter, "Jackson," won a Grammy Award.
Cash was last arrested in 1967 in Walker County, Georgia, after police found he was carrying a bag of prescription pills and was in a car accident. Cash attempted to bribe a local deputy, who turned the money down. The singer was jailed for the night in LaFayette, Georgia. Sheriff Ralph Jones released him after giving him a long talk, warning him about the danger of his behavior and wasted potential. Cash credited that experience with helping him turn around and save his life. He later returned to LaFayette to play a benefit concert; it attracted 12,000 people (the city population was less than 9,000 at the time) and raised $75,000 for the high school. Reflecting on his past in a 1997 interview, Cash noted: "I was taking the pills for awhile, and then the pills started taking me."
In early 1968, Cash had a spiritual epiphany in the Nickajack Cave. He had attempted to commit suicide while under the heavy influence of drugs. He descended deep into the cave, trying to lose himself and "just die," but passed out on the floor. Utterly discouraged, he felt God's presence in his heart and struggled out of the cave (despite exhaustion) by following a faint light and slight breeze. To him, the incident represented his rebirth. June, Maybelle, and Ezra Carter moved into Cash's mansion for a month to help him get off drugs. Cash proposed onstage to June on February 22, 1968, at a concert at the London Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada. The couple married a week later (on March 1) in Franklin, Kentucky. She had agreed to marry Cash after he had "cleaned up."
Cash's journey included rediscovery of his Christian faith. He took an "altar call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area, pastored by Reverend Jimmie Rodgers Snow, son of country music legend Hank Snow. But according to longtime friend Marshall Grant, Cash did not completely stop using amphetamines in 1968. It was not until 1970 that Cash ended all drug use, maintaining that for a period of seven years. Grant claims that the birth of Cash's son, John Carter Cash inspired Cash to end his dependence.
Cash began using amphetamines again in 1977. By 1983, he was deeply addicted again and entered the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, California, for treatment. He stayed off drugs for several years, but relapsed again. By 1989, he was dependent and entered Nashville's Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. In 1992, he entered the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center in Loma Linda, California, for his final rehabilitation treatment. (Several months later, his son followed him into this facility for treatment).

Folsom and other prison concerts


Cash began performing concerts at prisons starting in the late 1950s. He played his first famous prison concert on January 1, 1958, at San Quentin State Prison. These performances led to a pair of highly successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968) and Johnny Cash at San Quentin (1969). Both live albums reached number 1 on Billboard country album music and the latter crossed over to reach the top of the Billboard pop album chart. In 1969 Cash became an international hit when he eclipsed even the Beatles by selling 6.5 million albums. In comparison, the prison concerts were much more successful than his later live albums such as Strawberry Cake recorded in London and Live at Madison Square Garden, which peaked at #33 and #39 on the album charts respectively.
The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a rendition of his "Folsom Prison Blues," while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit single "A Boy Named Sue," a Shel Silverstein-penned novelty song that reached No. 1 on the country charts and No. 2 on the U.S. Top Ten pop charts. The AM versions of the latter contained profanities which were edited out of the aired version. The modern CD versions are unedited thus making them longer than the original vinyl albums, though they retain the audience reaction overdubs of the originals.
Cash performed at the Österåker Prison in Sweden in 1972. The live album På Österåker ("At Österåker") was released in 1973. "San Quentin" was recorded with Cash replacing "San Quentin" with "Österåker". In 1976, a further prison concert, this time at Tennessee Prison, was videotaped for TV broadcast and received a belated CD release after Cash's death as A Concert Behind Prison Walls.

Activism for Native Americans


In 1965, 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:In '57, I wrote a song called 'Old Apache Squaw' and then forgot the so-called Indian protest for a while, but nobody else seemed to speak up with any volume of voice.Columbia, the label for which Cash was recording then, was opposed to putting the song on his next album, considering it "too radical for the public". Cash singing songs of Indian tragedy and settler violence went radically against the mainstream of country music in the 1950s, which was dominated by the image of the righteous cowboy who simply makes the native's soil his own.
In 1964, 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.
The album featured stories of a multitude of native peoples, mostly of their violent oppression by white settlers: The Pima ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes"), Navajo ("Navajo"), Apache ("Apache Tears"), Lakota ("Big Foot"), Seneca ("As Long as the Grass Shall Grow"), and Cherokee ("Talking Leaves"). Cash wrote three of the songs himself and one with the help of Johnny Horton, but the majority of the protest songs were written by folk artist Peter La Farge (son of activist and Pulitzer prizewinner Oliver La Farge), whom Cash met in New York in the 1960s and whom he admired for his activism. The album's single, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (about one of the six to raise the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima), was neglected by non-political radio at the time, and the record label denied it any promotion due to its provocative protesting and thus "unappealing" nature. Cash faced resistance and was even urged by an editor of a country music magazine to leave the Country Music Association: "You and your crowd are just too intelligent to associate with plain country folks, country artists, and country DJs."
In reaction, on August 22, 1964, the singer posted a letter as an advertisement in Billboard Magazine, calling the record industry cowardly. "D.J.s – station managers – owners ... where are your guts?" he demands. "I had to fight back when I realized that so many stations are afraid of Ira Hayes. Just one question: WHY???" He concludes the letter, "Ira Hayes is strong medicine ... So is Rochester, Harlem, Birmingham and Vietnam." Cash kept promoting the song himself and used his influence on radio disc jockeys he knew eventually to make the song climb to number three on the country charts, while the album rose to number two on the album charts.Later, on The Johnny Cash Show, he continued telling stories of Native-American plight, both in song and through short films, such as the history of the Trail of Tears.
In 1966, in response to his activism, the singer was adopted by the Seneca Nation's Turtle Clan. He performed benefits in 1968 at the Rosebud Reservation, close to the historical landmark of the massacre at Wounded Knee, to raise money to help build a school. He also played at the D-Q University in the 1980s.
In 1970, Cash recorded a reading of John G. Burnett's 1890 80th birthday essay on Cherokee removal for the Historical Landmarks Association (Nashville).

The Johnny Cash Show 1969–1971


From 1969 to 1971, Cash starred in his own television show, The Johnny Cash Show, on the ABC network. The show was performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The Statler Brothers opened up for him in every episode; the Carter Family and rockabilly legend Carl Perkins were also part of the regular show entourage. Cash also enjoyed booking mainstream performers as guests; including Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition (who appeared four times), James Taylor, Ray Charles, Roger Miller, Roy Orbison, Derek and the Dominos, and Bob Dylan. During the same period, he contributed the title song and other songs to the film Little Fauss and Big Halsey, which starred Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard, and Lauren Hutton. The title song, "The Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsey," written by Carl Perkins, was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
Cash had met with Dylan in the mid-1960s and became closer friends when they were neighbors in the late 1960s in Woodstock, New York. Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Cash sang a duet with Dylan on Dylan's country album Nashville Skyline and also wrote the album's Grammy-winning liner notes.
Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was Kris Kristofferson, who was beginning to make a name for himself as a singer-songwriter. During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Cash refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact:The closing program of the Johnny Cash show was a gospel music special. Guests included the Blackwood Brothers, Mahalia Jackson, Stuart Hamblen and Billy Graham.

"The Man in Black"

By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black." He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black," to help explain his dress code:He wore 'black' on behalf of the poor and hungry, on behalf of "the prisoner who has long paid for his crime," and on behalf of those who have been betrayed by age or drugs. "And," Cash added, "with the Vietnam War as painful in my mind as it was in most other Americans, I wore it 'in mournin' for the lives that could have been' ... Apart from the Vietnam War being over, I don't see much reason to change my position ... The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the young are still dying before their time, and we're not making many moves to make things right. There's still plenty of darkness to carry off."He and his band had initially worn black shirts because that was the only matching color they had among their various outfits. He wore other colors on stage early in his career, but he claimed to like wearing black both on and off stage. He stated that political reasons aside, he simply liked black as his on-stage color. 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.
In the mid-1970s, Cash's popularity and number of hit songs began to decline. He made commercials for Amoco and STP, an unpopular enterprise at the time of the 1970s energy crisis. In 1976 he made commercials for Lionel Trains, for which he also wrote the music. However, his first autobiography, Man in Black, was published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. A second, Cash: The Autobiography, appeared in 1997.
His friendship with Billy Graham led to Cash's production of a film about the life of Jesus, The Gospel Road, which Cash co-wrote and narrated. It was released in 1973. Cash viewed the film as a statement of his personal faith rather than a means of proselytizing.
Cash and June Carter Cash appeared several times on the Billy Graham Crusade TV specials, and Cash continued to include gospel and religious songs on many of his albums, though Columbia declined to release A Believer Sings the Truth, a gospel double-LP Cash recorded in 1979 and which ended up being released on an independent label even with Cash still under contract to Columbia. On November 22, 1974, CBS ran his one-hour TV special entitled "Riding The Rails", a musical history of trains.
He continued to appear on television, hosting Christmas specials on CBS in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Later television appearances included a starring role in an episode of Columbo, entitled "Swan Song". He and June appeared in an episode of Little House on the Prairie, entitled "The Collection". He gave a performance as John Brown in the 1985 American Civil War television mini-series North and South. Johnny and June also appeared in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman in recurring roles.
He was friendly with every US President starting with Richard Nixon. He was closest to Jimmy Carter, with whom he became close friends and who was a distant cousin of his wife, June Carter Cash.
When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1970, Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters), "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song which denies the integrity of welfare recipients), and "A Boy Named Sue." Cash declined to play the first two and instead selected other songs, including "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (about a brave Native American World War II veteran who was mistreated upon his return to Arizona), and his own compositions, "What Is Truth" and "Man in Black". Cash wrote that the reasons for denying Nixon'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's office had given Cash enough time to learn and rehearse the songs, their choice of pieces that conveyed "anti-hippie and anti-black" sentiments might have backfired. In his remarks when introducing Cash, Nixon joked that one thing he'd learned about the singer was one didn't tell him what to sing.
Johnny Cash was the Grand Marshal of the United States Bicentennial parade. He wore a shirt from Nudie Cohn which sold for $25,000 in auction in 2010. After the parade he gave a concert at the Washington monument.

Highwaymen and departure from Columbia Records

In 1980, 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. In the mid-1980s, he recorded and toured with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen, making three hit albums which were released beginning with the originally titled "Highwaymen" in 1985, followed by "Highwaymen 2" in 1990, and concluding with "Highwaymen – The Road Goes on forever" in 1995.
During that period, Cash appeared in a number of television films. In 1981, he starred in The Pride of Jesse Hallam, winning fine reviews for a film that called attention to adult illiteracy. In the same year, Cash appeared as a "very special guest star" in an episode of the Muppet Show. In 1983, he 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 and featured June Carter in a small but important role. Cash had tried for years to make the film, for which he won acclaim.
Cash relapsed into addiction after being administered painkillers for a serious abdominal injury in 1983 caused by an unusual incident in which he was kicked and wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm.
At a hospital visit in 1988, 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. Doctors recommended preventive heart surgery, and Cash underwent double bypass surgery in the same hospital. Both recovered, although Cash refused to use any prescription painkillers, fearing a relapse into dependency. Cash later claimed that during his operation, he had what is called a "near death experience".
Cash's recording career and his general relationship with the Nashville establishment were at an all-time low in the 1980s. He realized that his record label of nearly 30 years, Columbia, was growing indifferent to him and was not properly marketing him (he was "invisible" during that time, as he said in his autobiography).
In 1984, Cash released a self-parody recording titled "Chicken in Black," about Cash's brain being transplanted into a chicken and Cash receiving a bank robber's brain in return. Biographer Robert Hilburn, in the 2013-published Johnny Cash: The Life disputes the claim made that Cash chose to record an intentionally poor song in protest of Columbia's treatment of him. On the contrary, Hilburn writes, it was Columbia that presented Cash with the song, which Cash – who had previously scored major chart hits with comedic material such as "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece at a Time" – accepted enthusiastically, performing the song live on stage and filming a comedic music video in which he dresses up in a superhero-like bank robber costume. According to Hilburn, Cash's enthusiasm for the song waned after Waylon Jennings told Cash he looked "like a buffoon" in the music video (which was showcased during Cash's 1984 Christmas TV special), and Cash subsequently demanded that Columbia withdraw the music video from broadcast and recall the single from stores—interrupting its bona fide chart success—and termed the venture "a fiasco."
Between 1981 and 1984, he recorded several sessions with famed countrypolitan producer Billy Sherrill (who also produced "Chicken in Black") which were shelved; they would be released by Columbia's sister label, Legacy Recordings, in 2014 as Out Among the Stars. Around this time, Cash also recorded an album of gospel recordings that ended up being released by another label around the time of his departure from Columbia (this due to Columbia closing down its Priority Records division that was to have released the recordings).
After more unsuccessful recordings were released in 1984–85, Cash left Columbia (at least as a solo artist; he continued to record for Columbia on non-solo projects until as late as 1990, recording a duets album with Waylon Jennings and two albums as a member of The Highwaymen).
In 1986, 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 special arrangements had to be made to allow him to participate. Also in 1986, Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle Paul. He recorded Johnny Cash Reads The Complete New Testament in 1990.

American Recordings

After Columbia Records dropped Cash from his recording contract, he had a short and unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records from 1987 to 1991. During this time, he recorded an album of new versions of some of his best-known Sun and Columbia hits, as well as Water from the Wells of Home, a duets album that paired him with, among others, his children Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash, as well as Paul McCartney. A one-off Christmas album recorded for Delta Records followed his Mercury contract.
His career was rejuvenated in the 1990s, leading to popularity with an audience which was not traditionally considered interested in country music. In 1988, British post-punk musicians Marc Riley (formerly of he 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 songs. Cash was enthusiastic about the project, telling Langford that it was a "morale booster": Roseanne Cash later said "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". The album attracted press attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1991, he sang a version of "Man in Black" for the Christian punk band One Bad Pig's album I Scream Sunday. In 1993, he sang "The Wanderer" on U2's album Zooropa which was the closing track. According to Rolling Stone writer, Adam Gold,"The Wanderer" – written for Cash by Bono, "defies both the U2 and Cash canons, combining rhythmic and textural elements of Nineties synth-pop with a Countrypolitan lament fit for the closing credits of a Seventies western.".
Although no longer sought after by major labels, he was offered a contract with producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings label, which had recently been rebranded from Def American, under which name it was better known for rap and hard rock. Under Rubin's supervision, he recorded American Recordings (1994) in his living room, accompanied only by his Martin Dreadnought guitar – one of many Cash played throughout his career. The album featured covers of contemporary artists selected by Rubin including "Down There by the Train" by Tom Waits. The album had a great deal of critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Cash wrote that his reception at the 1994 Glastonbury Festival was one of the highlights of his career. This was the beginning of a decade of music industry accolades and commercial success. He teamed up with Brooks & Dunn to contribute "Folsom Prison Blues" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. On the same album, he performed the Bob Dylan favorite "Forever Young."
Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. He also lent his voice for a cameo role in The Simpsons episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)", as the "Space Coyote" that guides Homer Simpson on a spiritual quest.
In 1996, Cash enlisted the accompaniment of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and released Unchained (also known as American Recordings II), which won the Best Country Album Grammy in 1998. The album was produced by Rick Rubin with Sylvia Massy engineering and mixing. A majority of "Unchained" was recorded at Sound City Studios and featured guest appearances by Lindsay Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, and Marty Stuart. Believing he did not explain enough of himself in his 1975 autobiography Man in Black, he wrote Cash: The Autobiography in 1997.

Last years

In 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy–Drager syndrome, a form of multiple system atrophy. 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. Soon afterwards, his diagnosis was changed to Shy–Drager, and Cash was told he had approximately 18 months to live. The diagnosis was later again altered to autonomic neuropathy associated with diabetes. The illness forced Cash to curtail his touring. He was hospitalized in 1998 with severe pneumonia, which damaged his lungs.
During the last stage of his career, Cash released the albums American III: Solitary Man (2000) and American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002). American IV included cover songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails commented that he was initially skeptical about Cash's plan to cover "Hurt", but was later impressed and moved by the rendition. The video for "Hurt" received critical and popular acclaim, including a Grammy award.
June Carter Cash died on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73. June had told Cash to keep working, so he continued to record, completing 60 more songs in the last four months of his life, and even performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the July 5, 2003, concert (his last public performance), before singing "Ring of Fire", Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage:The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and Heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from Heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has. She's never been one for me except courage and inspiration. I thank God for June Carter. I love her with all my heart.Cash continued to record until shortly before his death. His final recordings were made on August 21, 2003, and consisted of "Like the 309", which appeared on American V: A Hundred Highways in 2006, and the final song he completed, "Engine 143", which was recorded for his son John Carter Cash for a planned Carter Family tribute album.

Death


While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2:00 a.m. CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71 — less than four months after his wife. It was suggested that his health worsened due to a broken heart over June's death. He was buried next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
In June 2005, Cash's lakeside home on Caudill Drive in Hendersonville was put up for sale by his estate. In January 2006, the house was sold to Bee Gees vocalist Barry Gibb and wife Linda, and titled to their Florida limited liability company for $2.3 million. The listing agent was Cash's younger brother, Tommy. On April 10, 2007, during major renovation works carried out for Gibb, a fire broke out at the house, spreading quickly due to a flammable wood preservative that had been used. The building was completely burnt down.
One of Cash's final collaborations with producer Rick Rubin, American V: A Hundred Highways, was released posthumously on July 4, 2006. The album debuted in the No.1 position on the Billboard Top 200 album chart for the week ending July 22, 2006. On February 23, 2010, three days before what would have been Cash's 78th birthday, the Cash Family, Rick Rubin, and Lost Highway Records released his second posthumous record, titled American VI: Ain't No Grave.

Religious beliefs


Cash was raised by his parents in the Southern Baptist denomination of Christianity. He was baptized in 1944 in the Tyronza River as a member of the Central Baptist Church of Dyess, Arkansas.
A troubled but devout Christian, Cash has been characterized as a "lens through which to view American contradictions and challenges." On May 9, 1971, he answered the altar call at Evangel Temple, an Assemblies of God congregation pastored by Jimmy R. Snow (son of Hank Snow) with outreach to people in the music world.
A biblical scholar, Cash penned a Christian novel, Man in White in 1986 and in the introduction writes about a reporter who, interested in Cash's religious beliefs, questions whether the book is written from a Baptist, Catholic, or Jewish perspective. Cash denies an answer to the book's view and his own, and replies, "I'm a Christian. Don't put me in another box."
In the mid-seventies, Cash and his wife, June, completed a course of study in the Bible through Christian International Bible College. Cash often performed at Billy Graham Crusades. At a Tallahassee Crusade in 1986, June and Johnny sang his song, "One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul." At a notable performance in Arkansas in 1989, Johnny Cash spoke to attendees of his commitment to the salvation of drug dealers and alcoholics. He then sang, "Family Bible."
He made a spoken word recording of the entire New King James Version of the New Testament. Cash declared he was "the biggest sinner of them all", and viewed himself overall as a complicated and contradictory man. Accordingly, Cash is said to have "contained multitudes," and has been deemed "the philosopher-prince of American country music."
Cash is credited with having converted actor and singer John Schneider to Christianity.

Legacy

Cash's daughter Rosanne (by first wife Vivian Liberto) and his son John Carter Cash (by June Carter Cash) are notable musicians in their own right.
Cash nurtured and defended artists (such as Bob Dylan) on the fringes of what was acceptable in country music even while serving as the country music establishment's most visible symbol. At an all-star concert which aired in 1999 on TNT, a diverse group of artists paid him tribute, including Dylan, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dom DeLuise, and U2. Cash himself appeared at the end and performed for the first time in more than a year. Two tribute albums were released shortly before his death; Kindred Spirits contains works from established artists, while Dressed in Black contains works from many lesser-known musicians. In total, he wrote over 1,000 songs and released dozens of albums. A box set titled Unearthed was issued posthumously. It included four CDs of unreleased material recorded with Rubin as well as a Best of Cash on American retrospective CD. The set also includes a 104-page book that discusses each track and features one of Cash's final interviews.
In recognition of his lifelong support of SOS Children's Villages, his family invited friends and fans to donate to the Johnny Cash Memorial Fund in his memory. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Diessen, at the Ammersee Lake in Southern Germany, 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.
In 1999, Cash received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Cash No. 31 on their "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list and No. 21 on their "100 Greatest Singers" list in 2010. In 2012 Rolling Stone ranked Cash's 1968 live album At Folsom Prison and 1994 studio album American Recordings at No. 88 and No. 366 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The main street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Highway 31E, is known as "Johnny Cash Parkway."
The Johnny Cash Museum, located in one of Cash's properties in Hendersonville until 2006, dubbed the House of Cash, was sold based on Cash's will. Prior to this, having been closed for a number of years, the museum had been featured in Cash's music video for "Hurt." The house subsequently burned down during the renovation by the new owner. A new museum, founded by Shannon and Bill Miller, opened April 26, 2013, in downtown Nashville.
On November 2–4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival was held in Starkville, Mississippi, where Cash had been arrested more than 40 years earlier and held overnight at the city jail on May 11, 1965. The incident inspired Cash to write the song "Starkville City Jail". The festival, where he was offered a symbolic posthumous pardon, honored Cash's life and music and was expected to become an annual event.
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 museum offers public tours of the bus on a seasonal basis (it is stored during the winter months and not exhibited during those times).
A limited-edition Forever stamp honoring Cash went on sale June 5, 2013. The stamp features a promotional picture of Cash taken around the 1963 release of "Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. The Undertaker used Cash's version of "Ain't No Grave" at WrestleMania XXVII as his entrance theme.
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 Roseanne Cash. Along the trail, eight larger-than-life public art pieces will tell the story of Johnny Cash, his connection to Folsom Prison, and his epic musical career. The Johnny Cash Trail features art selected by a committee that included Cindy Cash, a 2-acre (0.81 ha) Legacy Park, and over 3 miles (4.8 km) of multi-use Class-I bike trail. The artists responsible for the sculptures are Sacramento-based Romo Studios, LLC and the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt Amrany, from Illinois.
In 2015, a new species of black tarantula was identified near Folsom Prison and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi in his honor.
In 2016, the Nashville Sounds Minor League Baseball team added the "Country Legends Race" to its between-innings entertainment. At the middle of the fifth inning, people in oversized foam caricature costumes depicting Cash, as well as George Jones, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton, race around the warning track at First Tennessee Park from center field to the home plate side of the first base dugout.
The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival was held in Dyess, Arkansas on October 19–21, 2017. It will build on the music festival held for four years on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro. The festival honors Johnny Cash and explores the New Deal programs that shaped his childhood in Dyess, Arkansas. The Festival includes a concert in the field adjacent to the Cash Home and Arkansas roots music in the Colony Circle.
On February 8, 2018, the album Forever Words was announced, putting music to poems that Cash had written and which were published in book form in 2016.

Portrayals


Country singer Mark Collie portrayed Cash in John Lloyd Miller's award-winning 1999 short film I Still Miss Someone.
In November 2005, Walk the Line, a biographical film about Cash's life, was released in the United States to considerable commercial success and critical acclaim. The film featured Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor) and Reese Witherspoon as June (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress). Phoenix and Witherspoon also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, respectively. They both performed their own vocals in the film (with their version of "Jackson" being released as a single), and Phoenix learned to play guitar for the role. Phoenix received a Grammy Award for his contributions to the soundtrack. John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June, served as an executive producer.
On March 12, 2006, Ring of Fire, a jukebox musical of the Cash oeuvre, debuted on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater but closed due to harsh reviews and disappointing sales on April 30. Million Dollar Quartet, a musical portraying the early Sun recording sessions involving Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, debuted on Broadway on April 11, 2010. Actor Lance Guest portrayed Cash. The musical was nominated for three awards at the 2010 Tony Awards and won one.
Robert Hilburn, veteran Los Angeles Times pop music critic, the journalist who accompanied Cash in his 1968 Folsom prison tour, and interviewed Cash many times throughout his life including months before his death, published a 688-page biography with 16 pages of photographs in 2013. The meticulously reported biography is said to have filled in the 80 percent of Cash's life that was unknown, including details about Cash's battles with addiction and infidelity. The book reportedly does not hold back any details about the darker side of Johnny Cash and includes details about his affair with his pregnant wife June Carter's sister.

Awards and honors

Cash received multiple Country Music Association Awards, Grammys, and other awards, in categories ranging from vocal and spoken performances to album notes and videos. In a career that spanned almost five decades, during which he rose to recording industry icon status, Cash was the personification of country music to many people around the world. Cash was a musician who was not defined by a single genre. He recorded songs that could be considered rock and roll, blues, rockabilly, folk, and gospel, and exerted an influence on each of those genres.
His diversity was evidenced by his presence in five major music halls of fame: the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1980), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992), GMA's Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2010) and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame (2013). Cash was the only country music artist inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a "performer", unlike the other country members, who were inducted as "early influences".
His contributions to the genre have been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Cash received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996 and stated that his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 was his greatest professional achievement. In 2001, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. "Hurt" was nominated for six VMAs at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. The only VMA the video won was that for Best Cinematography. With the video, Johnny Cash became the oldest artist ever nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. Justin Timberlake, who won Best Video that year for "Cry Me a River," said in his acceptance speech: "This is a travesty! I demand a recount. My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash, and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight."

Discography


Filmography


Published works


Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words, Zondervan, 1975; ISBN 99924-31-58-X
Man in White, a novel about the Apostle Paul, HarperCollins, 1986; ISBN 0-06-250132-1
Cash: The Autobiography, with Patrick Carr, HarperCollins, 1997; ISBN 978-0-06-101357-7
Johnny Cash Reads the New Testament, Thomas Nelson, 2011; ISBN 978-1-4185-4883-4
Recollections by Johnny Cash, edited by daughter Tara, 2014; ISBN 978-0-930677-03-9
The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon by Julie Chadwick, Dundurn Press, 2017; ISBN 978-1-459737-23-5

Notes


References


Bibliography


Further reading


Jonathan Silverman, Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2010, ISBN 1-55849-826-5
Graeme Thomson, The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt, Redemption, and American Recordings, Jawbone Press, ISBN 978-1-906002-36-7
Christopher S. Wren, Johnny Cash: Winners Got Scars, Too, Abacus Editions, ISBN 0-349-13740-4
Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life, Back Bay Books, New York: Little Brown and Company, 2013, ISBN 978-0-316-19474-7(pb)

External links

Official website
Sony Music's Johnny Cash website
Johnny Cash at Encyclopædia Britannica
"Inductee Johnny Cash", Candidates, Hit Parade Hall of Fame, archived from the original on January 6, 2008 .
Johnny Cash at AllMusic
Johnny Cash on IMDb
"Johnny Cash". Find a Grave. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
Johnny Cash profile at martinguitar.com


I Shall Not Be Moved - Like a Tree Planted by The Waters I Shall Not Be Moved - Like a Tree Planted by The Waters - Johnny Cash

Why Me Lord Why Me Lord - Johnny Cash

Daddy Sang Bass Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder - Johnny Cash

The Man Comes Around The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

The Great Speckled Bird The Great Speckled Bird - Johnny Cash

Here Was A Man Here Was A Man - Johnny Cash

How Great Thou Art How Great Thou Art - Johnny Cash

I Am Bound For The Promised I Am Bound For The Promised - Johnny Cash

The Preacher Said, Jesus Said The Preacher Said, Jesus Said - Johnny Cash

O Come All Ye Faithful O Come All Ye Faithful - Johnny Cash

Like A Soldier Like A Soldier - Johnny Cash

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Johnny Cash

Joy to the World Joy to the World - Johnny Cash

The Man In Black The Man In Black - Johnny Cash

The Man Who Couldn't Cry The Man Who Couldn't Cry - Johnny Cash

In The Garden In The Garden - Johnny Cash

Tennessee Stud Tennessee Stud - Johnny Cash

The Christmas Guest The Christmas Guest - Johnny Cash

Delia's Gone Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash

I Was There When It Happened I Was There When It Happened - Johnny Cash

It Was Jesus It Was Jesus - Johnny Cash

He Turned Water Into Wine He Turned Water Into Wine - Johnny Cash

Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) - Johnny Cash

The Christmas Spirit The Christmas Spirit - Johnny Cash

Ghost Riders In the Sky Ghost Riders In the Sky - Johnny Cash

In The Sweet By And By In The Sweet By And By - Johnny Cash

Blue Christmas Blue Christmas - Johnny Cash

Children Go Where I Send Thee Children Go Where I Send Thee - Johnny Cash

Silent Night Silent Night - Johnny Cash

Little Drummer Boy Little Drummer Boy - Johnny Cash

Oh Come, Angel Band Oh Come, Angel Band - Johnny Cash

Thirteen Thirteen - Johnny Cash

Bird On A Wire Bird On A Wire - Johnny Cash

Redemption Redemption - Johnny Cash

Far Side Banks Of Jordan Far Side Banks Of Jordan - Johnny Cash

I Saw a Man I Saw a Man - Johnny Cash

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Johnny Cash

The Gifts They Gave The Gifts They Gave - Johnny Cash

That's Enough That's Enough - Johnny Cash

Personal Jesus Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash

Amazing Grace Amazing Grace - Johnny Cash

The Beast In Me The Beast In Me - Johnny Cash

Belshazzar Belshazzar - Johnny Cash

Let The Train Blow The Whistle Let The Train Blow The Whistle - Johnny Cash

Peace In the Valley Peace In the Valley - Johnny Cash

Oh, Bury Me Not Oh, Bury Me Not - Johnny Cash

Merry Christmas Mary Merry Christmas Mary - Johnny Cash

Troublesome Waters Troublesome Waters - Johnny Cash

I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day - Johnny Cash

God Will God Will - Johnny Cash

Drive On Drive On - Johnny Cash

The Little Drummer Boy The Little Drummer Boy - Johnny Cash

The Old Account The Old Account - Johnny Cash

He'll Understand And Say Well Done He'll Understand And Say Well Done - Johnny Cash

Lead Me Gently Home Lead Me Gently Home - Johnny Cash

Christmas As I Knew It Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash

Ragged Old Flag Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash

It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) - Johnny Cash

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Johnny Cash

O Little Town of Bethlehem O Little Town of Bethlehem - Johnny Cash

My Ship Will Sail My Ship Will Sail - Johnny Cash

Away In a Manger Away In a Manger - Johnny Cash

(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) - Johnny Cash

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Albums & Songs

  • Sing It Pretty Sue
  • Soldier Boy
  • Poor Valley Girl
  • She Sang "Sweet Baby James"
  • Well Alright
  • Have You Ever Been To Little Rock?
  • I Love You Tonite
  • Spotlight (feat. Dan Auerbach)
  • Hello Out There
  • Drive On
  • Like A Soldier
  • I Walk the Line (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Don't Take Your Guns to Town (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Big River (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Ring of Fire (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Worried Man Blues (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Wabash Cannonball (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • This Land Is Your Land (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Foggy Mountain Top (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Wildwood Flower (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • June's Song Introduction (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Tall Lover Man (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Jackson (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Bad News (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Forty Shades of Green (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Lorena (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Old Apache Squaw (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Green, Green Grass of Home (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Give My Love to Rose (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • One Too Many Mornings (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Guess Things Happen That Way (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Rock Island Line (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • I'm Going To Memphis (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Orange Blossom Special (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • The Long Black Veil (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • Cocaine Blues (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
  • The Highway Man (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Ring of Fire (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • The Gambler (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Flesh and Blood (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Farther Along (feat. Duane Eddy) [with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]
  • I Walk the Line (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • The Loving Gift (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • A Thing Called Love (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • I Came to Believe (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Girl from the North Country (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Galway Bay (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Man In Black (with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
  • Hey Good Lookin'
  • Doin' My Time
  • Wreck of the Old 97
  • Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves You)
  • Country Boy
  • If the Good Lord's Willing
  • (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
  • Rock Island Line
  • Wide Open Road
  • Born to Lose
  • Blue Train
  • My Treasure
  • Sugartime
  • Life Goes On
  • Oh Lonesome Me
  • Port of Lonely Hearts
  • Mean Eyed Cat
  • Story of a Broken Heart
  • Down the Street to 301
  • I Love You Because
  • Straight A's in Love
  • You Tell Me
  • Goodbye Little Darlin'
  • I Forgot to Remember to Forget
  • Katy Too
  • Luther Played the Boogie
  • Thanks a Lot
  • I Just Thought You'd Like to Know
  • It's Just About Time
  • You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven
  • The Ways of a Woman in Love
  • Come in, Stranger
  • Guess Things Happen That Way
  • Big River
  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  • Give My Love to Rose
  • Home of the Blues
  • Next in Line
  • Don't Make Me Go
  • Train of Love
  • There You Go
  • Get Rhythm
  • I Walk the Line
  • So Doggone Lonesome
  • Folsom Prison Blues
  • Hey Porter
  • Cry, Cry, Cry
  • Belshazzar
  • I Was There When It Happened
  • That's Enough
  • The Christmas Spirit
  • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  • Blue Christmas
  • The Gifts They Gave
  • Here Was a Man
  • Christmas As I Knew It
  • Tennessee
  • She Used to Love Me a Lot (The JC/EC Version)
  • I Came to Believe
  • Don't You Think It's Come Our Time (with June Carter Cash)
  • Rock and Roll Shoes
  • I Drove Her Out of My Mind
  • Call Your Mother
  • If I Told You Who It Was
  • I'm Movin' On (with Waylon Jennings)
  • After All
  • She Used to Love Me a Lot
  • Baby Ride Easy (with June Carter Cash)
  • Out Among the Stars
  • Greystone Chapel (Live)
  • Green, Green Grass of Home (Live)
  • I Got Stripes (Live)
  • Give My Love to Rose (Live)
  • Jackson (Live)
  • Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart (Live)
  • Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog (Live)
  • The Wall (Live)
  • Send a Picture of Mother (Live)
  • The Long Black Veil (Live)
  • Orange Blossom Special (Live)
  • 25 Minutes to Go (Live)
  • Cocaine Blues (Live)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live)
  • Dark As the Dungeon (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • The Vanishing Race (Mono)
  • White Girl (Mono)
  • Drums (Mono)
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Mono)
  • The Talking Leaves (Mono)
  • Custer (Mono)
  • Apache Tears (Mono)
  • As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (Mono)
  • The Christmas Spirit
  • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  • Blue Christmas
  • The Gifts They Gave
  • Here Was a Man
  • Christmas As I Knew It
  • Silent Night
  • The Little Drummer Boy
  • The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
  • Who Kept the Sheep
  • We Are the Shepherds
  • Ringing the Bells for Jim
  • (The) Timber Man
  • Old Shep
  • Little Green Fountain
  • Call of the Wild
  • Tiger Whitehead
  • Dinosaur Song
  • Miss Tara
  • Little Magic Glasses
  • I Got a Boy (And His Name Is John) [with June Carter Cash]
  • One and One Makes Two
  • Nasty Dan
  • What'd I Say (Mono)
  • No, No, No (Mono)
  • You'll Be All Right (Mono)
  • Oh, What a Good Thing We Had (Mono)
  • Jackson (Mono)
  • I Got a Woman (Mono)
  • Pack Up Your Sorrows (Mono)
  • Fast Boat to Sydney (Mono)
  • It Ain't Me Babe (Mono)
  • Shantytown (Mono)
  • Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Mono)
  • Old Doc Brown (Mono)
  • Boss Jack (Mono)
  • When Papa Played the Dobro (Mono)
  • Going to Memphis (Mono)
  • Dorraine of Ponchartrain (Mono)
  • Lumberjack (Mono)
  • Slow Rider (Mono)
  • Loading Coal (Mono)
  • It Was Jesus (Mono)
  • I Saw a Man (Mono)
  • Lead Me Gently Home (Mono)
  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Mono)
  • God Will (Mono)
  • He'll Be a Friend (Mono)
  • These Things Shall Pass (Mono)
  • I Call Him (Mono)
  • Lead Me Father (Mono)
  • Snow In His Hair (Mono)
  • The Old Account (Mono)
  • Are All the Children In (Mono)
  • (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) [Live]
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live)
  • San Quentin (Live)
  • San Quentin (Live)
  • Starkville City Jail (Live)
  • Darlin' Companion (Live)
  • I Walk the Line (Live)
  • Wreck of the Old '97 (Live)
  • Wanted Man (Live)
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  • Christmas as I Knew It
  • Blue Christmas
  • The Little Drummer Boy
  • The Gifts They Gave
  • Merry Christmas Mary
  • I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
  • Joy to the World
  • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  • The Christmas Guest
  • The Christmas Spirit
  • Silent Night
  • King of Love
  • Ringing the Bells for Jim
  • Christmas with You
  • That Christmasy Feeling
  • Christmas Time's a-Comin'
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live)
  • (Ghost) Riders In the Sky (Live)
  • Truth
  • Moving Up
  • It Takes One to Know Me
  • Life's Railway to Heaven
  • Ben Dewberry's Final Run
  • Restless Kid (Demo)
  • What Is Truth (Live)
  • Give My Love to Rose (Live)
  • Big River (Live)
  • Daddy Sang Bass
  • (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  • Highwayman
  • There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
  • One Piece At a Time (Single Version)
  • Flesh and Blood
  • Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down (Live Version)
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live Version)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live Version)
  • The One On the Right Is On the Left
  • Understand Your Man
  • Ring of Fire (Single Version)
  • Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  • What Do I Care?
  • The Ways of a Woman in Love
  • Guess Things Happen That Way
  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  • There You Go
  • I Walk the Line
  • I Was There When It Happened
  • Belshazzar
  • That's Enough
  • The Old Account
  • He Turned Water Into Wine
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  • Daddy Sang Bass
  • The Masterpiece
  • Amen
  • Far Side Banks Of Jordan (with June Carter Cash)
  • Troublesome Waters (Stereo Version)
  • (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) [with The Carter Family]
  • Suppertime
  • The Great Speckle Bird
  • The Greatest Cowboy of Them All
  • You Can't Beat Jesus Christ
  • Jim, I Wore a Tie Today
  • I Wish I Was Crazy Again
  • Crazy Old Soldier
  • Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
  • If I Were a Carpenter
  • Girl from the North Country
  • That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
  • Another Man Done Gone
  • There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
  • I Got Stripes (with George Jones)
  • Jackson
  • I've Been Everywhere
  • Children Go Where I Send Thee
  • Oh Come, Angel Band
  • That's Enough
  • I Was There When It Happened
  • Belshazzar
  • Wildwood In the Pines
  • What Is Man
  • The Gospel Road
  • Over There
  • Believe In Him
  • You're Drifting Away
  • Another Wide River to Cross
  • Half a Mile a Day
  • God Ain't No Stained Glass Window
  • One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul
  • The Old Rugged Cross (with Jessi Colter)
  • My Children Walk In Truth
  • Our Little Old Home Town
  • Waiting On the Far Side Banks of Jordan (with June Carter Cash)
  • Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
  • Don't Give Up On Me
  • Keep Me from Blowing Away
  • What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
  • That's Just Like Jesus
  • Would You Recognize Jesus
  • Sanctified
  • Look Unto the East
  • Back In the Fold
  • Truth
  • I'll Have a New Life (with June Carter Cash)
  • Way Worn Traveler (with Helen Carter)
  • He Touched Me (with Rodney Crowell & The Carter Family)
  • Didn't It Rain
  • The Greatest Cowboy of Them All
  • What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
  • I'm Gonna Try to Be That Way (with Jan Howard & The Carter Family)
  • This Train Is Bound for Glory (with The Carter Family)
  • You'll Get Yours and I'll Get Mine (with Rodney Crowell & The Carter Family)
  • Don't Take Everybody to Be Your Friend (with The Carter Family)
  • Lay Me Down In Dixie (with Cindy Cash & The Carter Family)
  • I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) [with The Carter Family]
  • Strange Things Happening Everyday
  • I'm a Newborn Man (with The Carter Family)
  • I Was There When It Happened (with Marshall Grant & The Carter Family)
  • When He Comes (with Rosanne Cash & The Carter Family)
  • I've Got Jesus In My Soul (with The Carter Family)
  • He's Alive
  • Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home) [with Anita Carter & The Carter Family]
  • Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There)
  • Wings In the Morning
  • There You Go (Live At Wheeling Jamboree, Wheeling, WV, October 2, 1976)
  • Hey Porter (Live At Wheeling Jamboree, Wheeling, WV, October 2, 1976)
  • One Piece At a Times (Live At The Carter Fold, Hiltons, VA, 1976)
  • Ragged Old Flag (Live At The Carter Fold, Hiltons, VA, 1976)
  • City of New Orleans (Live At CBS Records Convention, Nashville, Tenn, 1973)
  • That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (Live)
  • The Prisoner's Song (Live At Osteraker Prison, Sweden, October 3, 1972)
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down (Live)
  • The Old Account (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)? [Live At the White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970]
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) [Live At the White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970]
  • What Is Truth (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Jesus Was a Carpenter (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Lumberjack (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Wreck of the Old '97 (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Pickin' Time (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Five Feet High and Rising (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Introduction - President Richard M. Nixon (Live At The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Ring of Fire (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Jackson (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Cocaine Blues (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Remember the Alamo (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Tennessee Flat-Top Box (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Wreck of the Old '97 (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Big River (Live At Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietman, January 1969)
  • Keep On the Sunny Side (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Ballad of Ira Hayes (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • I Walk the Line (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Rock Island Line (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Big River (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • Introduction (Live At Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, July 16, 1964)
  • The Rebel - Johnny Yuma (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Rock Island Line (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Impersonations (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Perkins Boogie (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • I Walk the Line (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Cotton Fields (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Country Boy (Live At New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962)
  • Get Rhythm (Live At Big "D" Jamboree, Dallas, TX, 1956)
  • I Walk the Line (Live At Big "D" Jamboree, Dallas, TX, 1956)
  • So Doggone Lonesome (Live At Big "D" Jamboree, Dallas, TX, 1956)
  • In the Sweet Bye and Bye
  • Life's Railway to Heaven
  • Farther Along
  • A Half a Mile a Day
  • Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
  • What Is Man
  • Lord, Lord, Lord
  • Sanctified
  • No Earthly Good
  • My Children Walk In the Truth
  • What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
  • One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul
  • The House Is Falling Down
  • Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At the Door)
  • Look Unto the East
  • The Way Worn Traveler
  • Have a Drink of Water
  • The Lily of the Valley
  • If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman
  • Have Thine Own Way Lord
  • Lights of Magdala
  • Who At My Door Is Standing
  • Wildwood In the Pines
  • Seal It In My Heart and Mind
  • It Takes One to Know Me
  • I Wanted So
  • Virgie
  • It's All Over
  • A Fast Song
  • The Cremation of Sam McGee
  • Tiger Whitehead
  • Girl In Saskatoon
  • When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
  • Saginaw, Michigan
  • Jim, I Wore a Tie Today
  • I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
  • Paradise
  • Louisiana Man
  • Missouri Waltz
  • I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
  • Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
  • When I Stop Dreaming
  • Galway Bay
  • Far Away Places
  • The Winding Stream
  • My Mother Was a Lady
  • The Engineer's Dying Child
  • There's a Mother Always Waiting At Home
  • The Letter Edged In Black
  • Godshine
  • We're for Love
  • The Pine Tree
  • The City of New Orleans
  • Tony
  • Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At the Door)
  • Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs
  • Allegheny
  • Saturday Night In Hickman County
  • The Color of Love
  • The Greatest Love Affair
  • Thanks to You
  • Chattanooga City Limit Sign
  • The Blues Keep Gettin' Bluer
  • The Reverend Mr. Black
  • Hey, Hey Train
  • The Hard Way
  • A Ceiling, Four Wall, And a Floor
  • Mobile Bay
  • The Baron
  • Here Was a Man (Live)
  • Come Along and Ride This Train / Mississippi Delta Land / Detroit City / Uncloudy Day / No Setting Sun / Mississippi Delta Land (Live)
  • I'm Gonna Try to Be That Way (Live)
  • These Hands (Live)
  • Come Along and Ride This Train / Six Days On the Road / There Ain't No Easy Run / The Sailor On a Concrete Sea (Live)
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down (Live)
  • Aloha Oe
  • Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
  • Cool Water
  • I Don't Hurt Anymore
  • Satisfied Mind
  • Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
  • I Corinthians 15:55
  • For the Good Times
  • Redemption Day
  • Ain't No Grave
  • Belshazzar (Live)
  • I Walk the Line (Reprised) [Live]
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live)
  • Fire and Rain (Live)
  • Girl of the North Country (Live)
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Live)
  • Only the Lonely / Pretty Woman (Live)
  • It's Too Late (Live)
  • Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) [Live]
  • Ring of Fire (Live)
  • Detroit City (Live)
  • I've Been Everywhere (Live)
  • Stand By Your Man (Live)
  • She Thinks I Still Care / Love Bug / The Race Is On (Live)
  • Flesh and Blood (Live)
  • I Walk the Line (Live)
  • Belshazzar
  • I Was There When It Happened
  • He Turned Water Into Wine
  • Man In Black
  • Peace In the Valley
  • Why Me
  • The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
  • Far Side Banks of Jordan
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)?
  • It Is No Secret
  • Angel Band
  • In the Sweet By and By
  • In God's Hands
  • My Children Walk In Truth
  • That Ragged Old Flag
  • Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)
  • Farther Along
  • I Won't Have to Cross Jordan Alone
  • I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal
  • The Old Rugged Cross
  • Over the Next Hill We'll Be Home
  • Gospel Road
  • When the Saints Go Marching In
  • Daddys Sang Bass
  • God Must Have My Fortune Laid Away
  • Elvis Says Goodbye
  • You're the Only Star In My Blue Heaven
  • Black Bottom Stomp
  • End of the Road
  • That's My Desire (Extra Verse)
  • Crazy Arms (Version 2)
  • I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
  • Rip It Up
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Version 3)
  • That's When Your Heartaches Begin
  • Is It So Strange
  • You Belong to My Heart
  • Don't Forbid Me (Version 2)
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Version 2)
  • Out of Sight Out of Mind
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Version 1)
  • Too Much Monkey Business
  • Don't Forbid Me (Version 1)
  • Crazy Arms (Version 1)
  • Keeper of the Key
  • Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
  • I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
  • Summertime Is Past and Gone
  • Little Cabin Home On the Hill
  • I Just Can't Make It By Myself
  • On the Jericho Road
  • Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand)
  • Farther Along
  • I'm with a Crowd But So Alone
  • Down By the Riverside
  • Peace In the Valley
  • I Shall Not Be Moved
  • Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley (Extra Verse)
  • Just a Little Talk with Jesus
  • When God Dips His Love In My Heart
  • Softly and Tenderly
  • When the Saints Go Marchin' In
  • There's No Place Like Home
  • Don't Be Cruel (Version 3)
  • Paralyzed
  • Don't Be Cruel (Version 2)
  • Don't Be Cruel (Version 1)
  • Reconsider Baby
  • White Christmas (instrumental)
  • Jingle Bells (Instrumental)
  • Love Me Tender (instrumental)
  • Instrumental (Unknown)
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel-Johnny Yuma (Live)
  • The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago (Live)
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine (Live)
  • Ring Of Fire (Live)
  • Less Of Me (Live)
  • The Outside Looking In (Live)
  • (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (Live)
  • Blistered (Live)
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live)
  • Restless (Live)
  • Wanted Man (Live)
  • San Quentin (Reprise) [Live]
  • San Quentin (Live)
  • Starkville City Jail (Live)
  • I Don't Know Where I'm Bound (Live)
  • Break My Mind (Live)
  • Darlin' Companion (Live)
  • Jackson (Live)
  • Orange Blossom Special (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • The Long Black Veil/Give My Love To Rose (Live)
  • I Walk The Line (Live)
  • Wreck of the Old 97 (Live)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live)
  • Big River (Live)
  • Wildwood Flower (Live)
  • June Carter Talks To The Audience (Live)
  • The Last Thing On My Mind (Live)
  • Flowers on the Wall (Live)
  • Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
  • In the Sweet Bye and Bye
  • Life's Railway to Heaven
  • Farther Along
  • A Half a Mile a Day
  • What Is Man
  • Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
  • Lord, Lord, Lord
  • Sanctified
  • No Earthly Good
  • My Children Walk In the Truth
  • What On Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
  • One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul
  • The House Is Falling Down
  • Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At the Door)
  • Look Unto the East
  • The Way Worn Traveler
  • Have a Drink of Water
  • The Lily of the Valley
  • If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman
  • Lights of Magdala
  • Have Thine Own Way Lord
  • Who At My Door Is Standing
  • Wildwood In the Pines
  • Seal It In My Heart and Mind
  • It Takes One to Know Me
  • I Wanted So
  • Virgie
  • A Fast Song
  • It's All Over
  • Tiger Whitehead
  • The Cremation of Sam McGee
  • Girl In Saskatoon
  • When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
  • Saginaw, Michigan
  • Jim, I Wore a Tie Today
  • I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
  • Paradise
  • Louisiana Man
  • Missouri Waltz
  • I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
  • Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
  • When I Stop Dreaming
  • Galway Bay
  • Far Away Places
  • The Winding Stream
  • My Mother Was a Lady
  • The Engineer's Dying Child
  • There's a Mother Always Waiting At Home
  • The Letter Edged In Black
  • Daddy Sang Bass
  • Man In Black
  • (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
  • I Was There When It Happened
  • Troublesome Waters
  • The Big Light
  • Without Love
  • I Will Rock and Roll With You
  • Doin' My Time
  • Cocaine Blues (Live)
  • 25 Minutes to Go
  • The Wall
  • Dark As a Dungeon
  • The Long Black Veil
  • I Got Stripes
  • Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  • Five Feet High and Rising
  • The Man On the Hill
  • Pickin' Time
  • Big River
  • I Still Miss Someone
  • Give My Love to Rose
  • Get Rhythm
  • Luther Played the Boogie
  • Cry Cry Cry
  • Hey Porter
  • One Piece At a Time (Single Version)
  • Any Old Wind That Blows
  • Oney (Single Version)
  • Kate
  • A Thing Called Love
  • Flesh and Blood
  • Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
  • What Is Truth
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • Rosanna's Going Wild
  • The One On the Right Is On the Left
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  • Understand Your Man
  • The Matador
  • Ring of Fire (Single Version)
  • Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  • The Ways of a Woman In Love
  • Guess Things Happen That Way
  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  • Home of the Blues
  • There You Go
  • I Walk the Line
  • I Shall Not Be Moved
  • When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  • In the Sweet By and By
  • In the Garden
  • Just As I Am
  • Softly and Tenderly
  • I'm Bound for the Promised Land
  • When He Reached Down
  • Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
  • Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
  • I'll Fly Away
  • If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
  • Do Lord
  • I Am a Pilgrim
  • Where We'll Never Grow Old
  • Where We'll Never Grow Old
  • The Man Comes Around (Early Take)
  • You'll Never Walk Alone
  • You Are My Sunshine
  • Gentle On My Mind (feat. Glen Campbell)
  • Salty Dog
  • Big Iron
  • Cindy (feat. Nick Cave)
  • Wichita Lineman
  • Hard Times
  • He Stopped Loving Her Today
  • Chattanooga Sugar Babe
  • Father and Son (feat. Fiona Apple)
  • Redemption Song (feat. Joe Strummer)
  • The L and N Don't Stop Here Anymore
  • A Singer of Songs
  • Bird On a Wire (Live With Orchestra)
  • Drive On (Alternate Lyrics)
  • Like a Soldier (feat. Willie Nelson)
  • I'm a Drifter (Version 2)
  • Devil's Right Hand
  • "T" Is for Texas
  • Brown Eyed Handsome Man (feat. Carl Perkins)
  • Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
  • The Running Kind (feat. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers & Tom Petty)
  • Heart of Gold
  • As Long As the Grass Shall Grow
  • I'm Movin' On
  • Down the Line
  • Trouble In Mind
  • I'm a Drifter (Version 1)
  • Pocahontas
  • Down There by the Train (Alternate Take)
  • Book Review
  • Dark As a Dungeon
  • The Fourth Man In the Fire
  • No Earthly Good
  • Casey's Last Ride
  • Waiting for a Train
  • Breaking Bread
  • I'm Going to Memphis
  • Old Chunk of Coal
  • Two Timin' Woman
  • The Caretaker
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Understand Your Man
  • If I Give My Soul
  • Just the Other Side of Nowhere
  • Flesh and Blood
  • Long Black Veil
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  • Daddy Sang Bass
  • Man in Black
  • Ragged Old Flag
  • (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
  • The Wanderer (with Johnny Cash)
  • The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (with Waylon Jennings)
  • Highwayman
  • Song of the Patriot (with Marty Robbins)
  • One Piece at a Time
  • Flesh and Blood
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down (Live)
  • If I Were a Carpenter
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969)
  • Girl from the North Country
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)
  • Jackson (with June Carter Cash)
  • The One on the Right Is on the Left
  • It Ain't Me, Babe (with June Carter Cash)
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  • Ring of Fire
  • I Still Miss Someone
  • Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  • The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
  • Five Feet High and Rising
  • Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  • All Over Again
  • Guess Things Happen That Way (mono)
  • Big River (Mono)
  • Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (mono)
  • There You Go
  • Get Rhythm
  • Cry, Cry, Cry
  • I Walk the Line
  • Hey Porter
  • The Man Comes Around
  • Personal Jesus
  • We'll Meet Again
  • Streets of Laredo
  • Tear Stained Letter
  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  • Desperado
  • Danny Boy
  • Sam Hall
  • In My Life
  • First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  • I Hung My Head
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Give My Love to Rose
  • Hurt
  • Cat's In the Cradle
  • Wanted Man
  • Home of the Blues (1988 Version)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (1988 Version)
  • Blue Train (1988 Version)
  • I Still Miss Someone (1988 Version)
  • Get Rhythm (1988 Version)
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box (1988 Version)
  • I Walk the Line (1988 Version)
  • Long Black Veil (1988 Version)
  • Cry, Cry, Cry (1988 Version)
  • The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (feat. Waylon Jennings)
  • Ragged Old Flag
  • What On Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake)
  • Please Don't Let Me Out
  • I'm a Worried Man
  • Good Morning Friend
  • While I've Got It On My Mind
  • Lonesome To the Bone
  • Pie In the Sky
  • King Of the Hill
  • Southern Comfort
  • All I Do Is Drive
  • Don't Go Near the Water
  • Drive On (Live)
  • On the Road Again (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • Always on My Mind (Live)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live)
  • Me and Paul (Live)
  • Night Life (Live)
  • Unchained (Live)
  • Crazy (Live)
  • Flesh and Blood (Live)
  • Funny How Time Slips Away (Live)
  • Don't Take Your Guns to Town (Live)
  • Family Bible (Live)
  • Worried Man (Live)
  • (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (Live)
  • One Piece At a Time
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live)
  • Jackson
  • I Still Miss Someone
  • Big River
  • Understand Your Man
  • Folsom Prison Blues
  • I Walk the Line
  • Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
  • Ring of Fire
  • Delia's Gone
  • Let the Train Blow the Whistle
  • The Beast in Me
  • Drive On
  • Why Me Lord
  • Thirteen
  • Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)
  • Bird on a Wire
  • Tennessee Stud
  • Redemption
  • Like a Soldier
  • The Man Who Couldn't Cry
  • Down There By the Train
  • Supper Time (1988 Version)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (1988 Version)
  • The Ways Of A Woman In Love (1988 Version)
  • Ballad Of Ira Hayes (1988 Version)
  • Ring Of Fire (1988 Version)
  • I Walk The Line (1988 Version)
  • I Got Stripes (1988 Version)
  • Guess Things Happen That Way (1988 Version)
  • Home Of The Blues (1988 Version)
  • Don't Take Your Guns To Town (1988 Version)
  • Peace In The Valley (1988 Version)
  • Five Feet High And Rising (1988 Version)
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down (1988 Version)
  • Blue Train (1988 Version)
  • Cry, Cry, Cry (1988 Version)
  • I Still Miss Someone (1988 Version)
  • A Thing Called Love (1988 Version)
  • Long Black Veil (1988 Version)
  • Tennessee Flat Top Box (1988 Version)
  • Get Rhythm (1988 Version)
  • I'm Ragged But I'm Right
  • Brand New Dance
  • Girl from the Canyon
  • Joshua Gone Barbados
  • Ballad of the Ark
  • Johnny 99
  • New Cut Road
  • God Bless Robert E. Lee
  • That's the Truth
  • Highway Patrolman
  • I Saw the Light (Live)
  • Can the Circle Be Unbroken? (Live)
  • (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) [Live]
  • Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
  • Rockin' My Life Away (Live)
  • Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Live)
  • I'll Fly Away (Live)
  • Matchbox (Live)
  • That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (Live)
  • Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Live)
  • I Forgot to Remember to Forget (Live)
  • Get Rhythm (Live)
  • Joy to the World
  • Away in a Manger
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem
  • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  • Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • The Christmas Guest
  • In the Sweet By and By
  • When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  • Amazing Grace
  • Have Thine Own Way Lord
  • At the Cross
  • Farther Along
  • Just As I Am
  • Softly and Tenderly
  • The Old Rugged Cross
  • Rock of Ages
  • Precious Memories
  • Help, Pt. 3
  • Four Months to Live
  • Children
  • Jesus and Children
  • The Gospel Road, Pt. 4
  • The Living Water and the Bread of Life
  • More Jesus Teaching
  • The Turned the Water Into Wine, Pt. 4
  • Feeding the Multitude
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine, Pt. 3
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine, Pt. 2
  • Crossing the Sea of Galilee
  • Magdalene Speaks Again
  • Follow Me
  • Mary Magdalene Speaks
  • Introducing Mary Magdelene
  • The Lord's Prayer, Amen Chorus
  • Blessed Are
  • Sermon On the Mount
  • Help, Pt. 2
  • Jesus and Nicodemus
  • Help, Pt. 1
  • The Adulterous Woman
  • Come Unto Me
  • Jesus In the Temple
  • Jesus Upbraids Scribes and Pharisees
  • Jesus Cleanses Temple
  • John the Baptist's Imprisonment and Death
  • Greater Love Hath No Man
  • The Two Greatest Commandments
  • Parable of the Good Shepherd
  • Jesus' Teachings
  • Choosing of Twelve Disciples
  • Jesus Was a Carpenter, Pt. 1
  • I See Men As Trees Walking
  • State of the Nation
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine, Pt. 1
  • Jesus' First Miracle
  • Jesus' Opposition Is Established
  • Jesus Announces His Divinity
  • The Gospel Road, Pt. 3
  • Follow Me, Jesus
  • Wilderness Temptation
  • Baptism of Jesus
  • John the Baptist
  • The Gospel Road, Pt. 2
  • Jesus' Early Years
  • The Gospel Road, Pt. 1
  • Introduction
  • Praise the Lord
  • These Are My People
  • Reaching for the Stars
  • Come Take a Trip In My Airship
  • On Wheels and Wings
  • The Big Battle
  • A Proud Land
  • Mister Garfield
  • Like a Young Colt
  • Big Foot
  • The West
  • The Gettysburg Address
  • Lorena
  • Opening the West
  • Remember the Alamo
  • Southwestward
  • The Battle of New Orleans
  • To the Shining Mountains
  • The Road to Kaintuck
  • Begin West Movement
  • Paul Revere
  • Opening Dialogue
  • The Preacher Said, "Jesus Said"
  • Man In Black
  • I Talk to Jesus Every Day
  • Dear Mrs.
  • Look For Me
  • Ned Kelly
  • Singin' In Viet Nam Talkin' Blues
  • If Not For Love
  • You've Got a New Light Shining In Your Eyes
  • Orphan of the Road
  • Jesus Was a Carpenter
  • I've Got a Thing About Trains
  • Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill
  • Blistered
  • To Beat the Devil
  • Sing a Traveling Song
  • If I Were a Carpenter
  • Route #1, Box 144
  • See Ruby Fall
  • 'Cause I Love You
  • The Devil to Pay
  • Southwind
  • Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) [Live]
  • Daddy Sang Bass (Live)
  • Suppertime (Live)
  • He Turned the Water Into Wine (Live)
  • Finale Medley (Live)
  • Sing a Travelin' Song (Live)
  • As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (Live)
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Live)
  • Jesus Was a Carpenter (Live)
  • Cocaine Blues (Live)
  • A Boy Named Sue (Live)
  • Worried Man Blues (Live)
  • Wildwood Flower (Live)
  • Flowers On the Wall (Live)
  • Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
  • Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
  • Send a Picture of Mother (Live)
  • The Wall (Live)
  • The Long Black Veil (Live)
  • Wreck of the Old 97 (Live)
  • Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (Live)
  • Remember the Alamo (Live)
  • Pickin' Time (Live)
  • Five Feet High and Rising (Live)
  • I Still Miss Someone (Live)
  • Big River (Live)
  • Amen (Mono)
  • Wildwood Flower (Mono)
  • Danny Boy (Mono)
  • All of God's Children Ain't Free (Mono)
  • When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Mono]
  • Mama, You Been On My Mind (Mono)
  • You Wild Colorado (Mono)
  • Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Mono)
  • The Wall (Mono)
  • It Ain't Me Babe (Mono)
  • The Long Black Veil (Mono)
  • Orange Blossom Special (Mono)