Now, There Was a Song! Ride This Train. Sings Hank Williams. Sun Records. The Lure of the Grand Canyon. Now Here's Johnny Cash. Hymns from the Heart. The Sound of Johnny Cash. The Christmas Spirit. Friday Music. Blood, Sweat and Tears. Bitter Tears Ballads of the American Indian. I Walk the Line. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Keep on the Sunnyside. Ballads of the True West 2. CBS Records. Orange Blossom Special. Sings the Ballads of the True West. DCC Compact Classics.
The Sons of Katie Elder. Happiness Is You. Mean as Hell! Everybody Loves a Nut. Music on Vinyl. Carryin' On. Sony Music Distribution. At Folsom Prison. From Sea to Shining Sea. Heart of Cash. CSP Records. Old Golden Throat. Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. High Society. Johnny Cash at San Quentin. More of Old Golden Throat. Grand Canyon Suite. The Johnny Cash Show.
International Superstar. A Man in Black. Sun Record Company. Johnny Cash Family Christmas. A Thing Called Love. Johnny Cash and His Woman. The Gospel Road, Pt. Any Old Wind That Blows. The Gospel Road. John R. Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. I Walk the Line [Original Soundtrack].
Ragged Old Flag. The Johnny Cash Children's Album. Look at Them Beans. Sings Precious Memories. Destination Victoria Station. One Piece at a Time. Strawberry Cake. He wrote letters to family and friends, and even letters to himself, year in and year out. He also wrote two autobiographies, Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography , which he wrote in longhand on lined notebook paper.
In , he published the novel Man in White , a fictional account of six years in the life of the apostle Paul, including his conversion on the road to Damascus. Afterward, he ran his car into a utility pole, knocking out several of his teeth and breaking his nose.
Once he remarried to June Carter of the famous Carter Family in , Cash began a decades-long re-examination of his life and re-dedication to his Christian roots. This culminated in two and a half years of study in the lates, after which he received a degree in theology and became a minister. He was encouraged in his studies by the Reverend Billy Graham , who became a close friend of the Cash family during these years.
Although he never attempted to marshal a congregation or play a guiding role in church services, Cash did preside at the wedding of his daughter Karen. Becoming a minister was the utmost expression of the religious feeling that characterized much of his life. Inside Their Love Story. Throughout his career, he performed in prisons, sympathetic to the plight of inmates who ran afoul of society. Although he himself never spent any great length of time in jail, he was arrested seven times and spent a few nights in jail.
Perhaps his most famous arrest occurred in El Paso, Texas, in October of Cash had crossed over the border into Juarez to buy cheap amphetamines, which he had become addicted to in the early 60s. News reports said that he was found with Dexadrine and Equanil tablets in his luggage. Between the years to , Cash was arrested for public drunkenness, reckless driving, drug possession, and memorably, picking flowers.
In the small town of Starkville, Mississippi, Cash was drunkenly exploring the town at 2 a. Arrested by local police, he was not a penitent guest at the Starkville jail; he screamed and kicked at the cell door so hard that he broke his toe. He later wrote a song about his experience that became a highlight of his At San Quentin album. Sharing a cell with a threatening lumberjack who refused to believe he was Cash, he spent most of the night singing his big hits and gospel songs to pacify his intimidating cellmate.
The man never did believe he was Cash, but he fell asleep and Cash survived the night intact. In the late 50s, Cash moved out to California. This aspect of his career never took off in a big way, but throughout his life, Cash did appear in various movies and TV shows.
Although the film met with limited success, with prints showing primarily to church groups, Cash considered it his finest cinematic achievement. In the 70s and 80s, Cash would appear in a few TV movies and guest star on TV shows like Columbo and Little House on the Prairie , but he did them mostly for fun and no longer nurtured ideas of becoming a movie star.
The song was an immediate hit, hitting 1 on the country chart and even making the pop Top It stayed at 1 for seven consecutive weeks. Cash played the song at almost every concert he performed from then on.
At this time, Cash was friendly with the Carter sisters and often toured with them and their mother Maybelle of the original Carter Family. Originally, Cash wore black on stage because he and his backing musicians, the Tennessee Two, wanted to have matching outfits and the only garment they had in common was a black shirt. But early pictures of the group show them wearing lighter colors, and there was no hard-and-fast rule.
Cash would often wear a white shirt with a sport coat in appearances and in photos. Sometimes he would even wear an entire suit of white. Album covers show him in stripes, plenty of blue denim, and even a grey shirt with a flower design. In the 70s, with the popularity of the Man in Black image, Cash began to wear black clothes more consistently, but even in his old age, he could be spotted in a light windbreaker or a denim shirt.
He seemed to know everybody at one point or another, from Patsy Cline and Ray Charles to the members of U2. Faron Young was one of the greatest proponents of the honky-tonk-style of country music in the 50s and 60s, a rhythmic style that dealt with intense themes of heartbreak, excessive drinking, and adultery.
From to , he charted 70 Top 40 country hits, many of them Top He made several movies and also co-founded the popular Nashville music periodical Music City News. Although he continued to perform and occasionally record through the 80s and 90s, Faron Young no longer troubled the hit parade, and his health began to fail due to a bad case of emphysema.
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