Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country singer and composer. Cash’s music, particularly those from his later career, incorporates themes of sadness, moral difficulty, and salvation.
He was well-known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice and the distinct sound of his Tennessee accent. Three-piece backup band distinguished by train-like chugging guitar rhythms and rebelliousness. This, combined with his more solemn and humble demeanor, free jail concerts, and a signature all-black stage attire gave him the moniker “Man in Black.”
What are some of the Legacies of Johnny Cash?
While functioning as the country music establishment’s most visible emblem, Johnny Cash cultivated and championed performers on the margins of what was acceptable in country music, such as Bob Dylan. Dylan, Chris Isaak, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dom DeLuise, and U2 paid tribute to him at an all-star concert that broadcast on TNT in 1999.
Cash himself made an appearance at the conclusion and performed for the first time in almost a year. Kindred Spirits, a tribute album featuring recognized artists, and Dressed in Black, a tribute album featuring numerous lesser-known musicians, were both released shortly before his death.
He wrote almost 1,000 songs and published dozens of CDs in total. Posthumously, a box set titled Unearthed was released. It came with four CDs of previously unheard songs recorded with Rubin, as well as a Best of Cash on American retrospective CD. The package also comes with a 104-page book that goes over each track and contains one of Cash’s final interviews.
Cash got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Rolling Stone rated Cash 31st on their “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” list in 2004, and 21st on their “100 Greatest Singers” list in 2010. Rolling Stone named Cash’s 1968 live album At Folsom Prison and 1994 studio album American Recordings to its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2012.
In honor of his longtime support of SOS Children’s Villages, his family asked friends and fans to contribute to the Johnny Cash Memorial Fund in his honor. He had personal contact with the SOS village in Dießen, at the Ammersee Lake in Bavaria, near where he was stationed as a GI, and with the SOS village in Barrett Town, by Montego Bay, near his holiday house in Jamaica.
Cash’s lakeside property on Caudill Drive in Hendersonville was sold for $2.3 million to Bee Gees frontman Barry Gibb and wife Linda in January 2006. On April 10, 2007, during extensive repair work for Gibb, a fire broke out at the residence, fast spreading due to the application of a combustible wood preservative. The structure was destroyed.
American V: A Hundred Highways, one of Cash’s final collaborations with producer Rick Rubin, was released posthumously on July 4, 2006. For the week ending July 22, 2006, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 album list. 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 American VI: Ain’t No Grave, his second posthumous album.
Highway 31E near Hendersonville, Tennessee, is known as “Johnny Cash Parkway.” The Johnny Cash Museum, which was housed at one of Cash’s Hendersonville residences until 2006 and was known as the House of Cash, was sold in accordance with Cash’s will. Prior to this, after being closed for several years, the museum was featured in Johnny Cash’s song video for “Hurt.” The house then burned down during the next owner’s remodeling. Shannon and Bill Miller founded a new museum in downtown Nashville on April 26, 2013.
The Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival was held in Starkville, Mississippi, on November 2-4, 2007, where Cash was arrested more than 40 years previously and imprisoned overnight at the local jail on May 11, 1965. Cash was inspired to create the song “Starkville City Jail” after seeing the occurrence. The festival, which honored Cash’s life and music by offering him a symbolic posthumous pardon, was intended to become an annual event.
From 1980 to 2003, Johnny Cash’s private tour bus, JC Unit One, was on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The museum gives public tours of the bus periodically (it is kept and not displayed during the winter).
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