The Essential Johnny Cash

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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. [71] Cash began performing concerts at prisons in the late 1950s. He played his first famous prison concert on January 1, 1958, at San Quentin State Prison. [67] 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 one 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 6.5million albums. [68] 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 numbers 33 and 39 on the album charts, respectively.

Dave Urbanski, The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash. Relevant Books, 2003, p.99. So many of my peers are like cover bands of their own selves these days… I didn’t want to be a museum. So this is a kind of reinvention”: The return of Edgar BroughtonGrant, Marshall (2005). I Was There When It Happened– My Life With Johnny Cash. Cumberland House. ISBN 978-1-58182-510-7. Born to sharecropper parents in 1932 in Arkansas, Cash (christened J. R. when his parents couldn’t agree on a first or middle name) worked in the cotton fields as a boy, dreaming along with radio broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. By the age of 12 he was playing guitar and writing songs. In 1955 he signed to Sun Records (where Elvis Presley made his first recordings).

Cash is credited with having converted actor and singer John Schneider to Christianity. [147] Legacy The clothes and guitar of Johnny Cash on exhibit in the Artist Gallery of the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix 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. [107] 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. Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian". The Bluegrass Special. August 2010. Archived from the original on November 5, 2016 . Retrieved November 4, 2016. Morris, E. (December 23, 2008), Johnny Cash's reading of the New Testament now on DVD, Country Music Television , retrieved January 20, 2010

Grant, Marshall (2005). I Was There When It Happened– My Life With Johnny Cash. Cumberland House. pp. 92, 177. ISBN 978-1-58182-510-7. It would have been the most stupid and self-destructive thing we could possibly have done": Why the man who signed Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones failed in his repeated bids to sign Fugazi, not even for 10 million dollars Things you didn't know about Johnny Cash". Rolling Stone. October 31, 2013. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014 . Retrieved August 29, 2014. Clapp 2008, p.xvi: 'Very few figures in recent history are seen as more representative of American identity as Cash... His has often been suggested as the face that should be added to the select pantheon on Mt. Rushmore'

Johnny Cash Stamp Release Celebrated By Family". Huffington Post. June 3, 2013 . Retrieved June 3, 2013. Tahmahkera, Dustin (2011). " "An Indian in a White Man's Camp": Johnny Cash's Indian Country Music". American Quarterly. 63 (3): 591–617. doi: 10.1353/aq.2011.0039. S2CID 143509936 . Retrieved June 26, 2018.Streissguth, M. (2006). Johnny Cash: a biography. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-306-81591-1. Hilburn, Robert (October 12, 2013). "Johnny Cash's dark California days". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013 . Retrieved November 8, 2018. a b Bowden, Bill (May 5, 2018). "National Register accepts Johnny Cash boyhood home in Arkansas". ArkansasOnline. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Archived from the original on May 5, 2018 . Retrieved May 7, 2018. Jonathan Silverman, Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2010, ISBN 1-55849-826-5