Johnny Cash: The Bass-Baritone Voice of Country Music

Johnny Cash and His Influence on Country Music
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas the fourth child of five children he was born on February 26,1932. He took after his father because he was in World War One. Johnny Cash went in the army around the post World War Two. His family worked in a cotton mill around The Great Depression. A new way of cotton farming in Mississippi came around in nineteen thirty seven. A flood came around the same time so they had to move temporarily. He died on September 12,2003, he was a complex man he was unforgettable with his bass-baritone voice. Cash was a religious man. In nineteen fifty Johnny Cash graduated high school. After high school he went to work in a auto plant in Michigan. He bought his first

Later he went to Sun Records to record music. Sam Phillips who ran Sun Records was truly not impressed with gospel music.The first song Johnny Cash ever performed was “Hey Porter” the song was apart of his record with another song called “Cry,Cry,Cry. The first time he went on tour he performed on a radio show known as the “Louisiana HayRide ” . The next eighteen months he released songs he did “Folsom Prison Blues”, “ I Walk the Line”, “Get Rhythm”, and “ Big River”, He did appear on the Grand Ole Opry he performed “The Ring of Fire”. Cash still wanted to put some gospel on “With his Hot and Blue Guitar” album Phillips was still disagreed he moved to Columbia Records to record “Don’t take Your Guns to Town”, “Ring of Fire” which was written by June Carter Cash she was his second wife. In nineteen sixty he moved to California and left Sun Records for Columbia Records later he went on drugs and alcohol while he was on tour. He did tour with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins while on tour his first wife Vivian she grew increasingly frustrated soon she left him and filed for divorce. While in Mexico he got on more drugs and got arrested. June

In nineteen eighty he was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Johnny and his friends Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson formed the “Highwaymen” . He also teamed up with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison with his busy schedule of recording music. Cash was also in a few movies he was in the “Stagecoach” which starred him, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, June Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson,and John Schneider one of the stars in “The Dukes of Hazzard”. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, June Carter Cash, and Willie Nelson were in a movie about two of the greatest bank robbers of the old west it was called “The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James”. Cash has always been known as “ The Man in Black” because he always wore a black shirt and he had a song by the same name. In nineteen ninety two he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, In two thousand and one he got a national medal of honor.He was out selling the Beatles in nineteen sixty one, he had a television show in nineteen sixty one through nineteen seventy one called the Johnny Cash show, he did live albums at Folsom Prison and San Quentin prison all the prisoners