JOHNNY CASH BIOGRAPHY


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He has recorded more than 1,500 songs and they can be found on about 500 albums, counting only American and European releases.

More of his albums (45) remain in print today than most artists ever make.

He is the youngest person ever chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame and the only person ever selected for the Country and Rock Music Hall of Fame, until this 1998, when Elvis Presley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He has placed 48 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts, about the same number as the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.

He has tallied more Pop hit singles than Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson (including his Jackson 5 hits), the Four Seasons, David Bowie, the Supremes, Elton John, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, the combined totals of Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, Martin Gaye, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Kool & the Gang, Linda Ronstadt. Diana Ross, the combined total of all of the Osmond Family, Jerry Lee Lewis and the combined total of Lionel Richie and the Commodores.

He has won 11 Grammies, the most recent include the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2002 shared Grammy for Best Country Album. Two of his Grammys came for writing liner notes, for his At Folsom Prison album and Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline record.

Cash's 1987 Grammy came through his participation in The Class Of '55 recordings with the late Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The project represented a rebirth of "The Million Dollar Quartet" recordings featuring Cash, Perkins, Lewis and the late Elvis Presley and, interestingly enough, it predated Orbison's participation in The Traveling Wilburys.

He has had chart success as a solo artists, as part of a duet, as the leader of a trio, and as a part of the award-winning Highwayman quartet.

Long before the term "concept album" was coined, Cash created such thematically unified albums Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Seat, & Tears (1963), Bitter Tears (1964). and Johnny Cash Sings Ballads Of The True West (1965).

People forget just how hot Johnny Cash was, when his sales career was at its zenith. In the fall of 1969, Johnny Cash was the hottest act in the world, selling around 250,000 albums per month of his Folsom Prison and San Quinten albums. At that time, he was even outselling the Beatles.

As Rich Kinezie observed it Country Music magazine 10 years ago, Cash "strengthened the bonds between folk and country music so that both sides saw their similarities as well as their differences. He helped to liberalize Nashville so that it could accept the unconventional and the controversial and he did as much as anyone to make the 'outlaw' phenomenon possible."

As host of The Johnny Cash Show on ABC-TV (1969-1971), he served up 60 hours of prime-time TV, which featured performers like Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Neil Young, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Dennis Hopper, Judy Collins, Charley Pride, the Oak Ridge Boys, Patti Page and Merle Haggard, most rarely seen on TV back then.

His 1975 autobiography Man in Black has so far sold around 1.5 million copies, about 300,000 in hardcover.

He is one of the very few people in the history of music to sell more than 50 million records.

He has placed at least two singles on the Country charts for 38 consecutive years, including an amazing 25 hits between 1958 and 1960.

He produced and co-scripted a movie about the life of Jesus, Gospel Road, and filmed it in Israel. The film was distributed by Billy Graham's organization and is still in great demand today.

He has starred in four additional theatrical films including one of the last great westerns, A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas. In addition, he has been a featured star in seven TV movies including The Pride Of Jessee Hallam, a hard-hitting, poignant story of one man's struggle against illiteracy. The show has proven to be a valuable tool in the battle against illiteracy.

He has posted over 130 hits on the Billboard Country singles chart, more than anyone in history, except George Jones. (Discounting duets by both men, Cash's total exceeds Jones.)

• He has won over two dozen songwriting awards from BMI; two of his songs, Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk The Line have earned million-performance citations from BMI.

Over a hundred acts have recorded Cash's I Walk The Line.

He has toured extensively for 38 years on a scope far beyond the normal tour bus routine of U.S. honky-tonks, state fairs, and showrooms. Hundreds of thousands of fans in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe have seen The Johnny Cash Show. He has toured in Vietnam and throughout the U.S. State Department, he has appeared in concert in many Eastern European nations such as Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

He has fathered four daughters (Rosanne, Tara, Cindy and Kathy) and a son (John Carter), all of whom have performed with him at one time or another. In addition, Rosanne has become our of country music's top singer-songwriters.

Cash's influence on younger musicians in the Rock/Pop field is as strong a it was in the 60's: A group of European musicians last year released Til Things Get Brighter, an album 100% composed of Johnny Cash covers by such acts as Michelle Shocked and Marc Almond. In addition, fresh recordings of Cash classics like I Still Miss Someone and Big River have recently been made by Stevie Nicks and the Beat Farmers. He is a featured guest soloist on U-2's album ZOOROPA.

His last three albums earned him Grammy Awards:American Recordings Best Folk Album 1994; Unchained - Best Country Album 1998 and Solitary Man - Best Country Male Vocal Performance 2000. Cash received the most coveted of Grammy award for Lifetime Achievment in 1999.

Cash was honored with a Kennedy Center Award in December of 1996.

Despite country music stations refusing to play his newer music, Cash and American Recordings were honored with Country Music Television-Europe's #7 Video of the Year for Rusty Cage, and Playboy Magazine honored Cash with the 1998 Music Poll Winner "Hall of Fame" Award.

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Johnny Cash a racist? | Reviewer: Craig M | 9/15/09

We now have a president that is a racist along with his wife. Obama sat there and listened to the reverand (my butt) Wright sit there and spew out hatred towards white people and this country! We have a president that loves the black panthers, look at what happened at the voting places in PA. Give me a break,Mr. Cash was a C&W singer.WE now have a racist president that is a total IDIOT.Please respond back if you disagree because I will eat your lunch!

For All You Idiots | Reviewer: Ace | 5/29/09

I agree all of you saying johnny cash is racist either dont listen to his music or know anything about him or are like the rest of the ignorant fucks that believe everthing they see and you are the reason we let Bush fuck this country up cause you dipshits are the ones that voted for him

theres two people similar names, ones a racist Fuck, the others a country legend. Johnny rebel wrote songs about bathing in N***** blood and shit like that johnny cash wrote about how life is out in the country and rockabilly shit like that so if you believe everything that limewire puts on there then you are a disgrace and should fuck yourself!!!

horseshit | Reviewer: matthew | 4/20/09

number 1, i'm not a coutry bumpkin. cash and hank williams are the only "country" artists i like. cash's music isn't pure country anyways. it has elements of rockabilly, rock and roll, folk, country and more. he didn't like being classified as just a country artist. he didn't write the stupid fuckin song in question. if he had, he would have been mauled when he did concerts in san quentin, folsom and all of the other prisons he went played concerts at. he wrote whole albums singing about the plight of the american indian. what kind of a racist would do that? try the album "bitter tears" for an example of johnny cash's real thoughts on people of color. alot of people saying that he wrote this stupid spoof song are obviously either too young or ignorant to take the time to do their homework and find out for themselves if it was his. these are probably the same lame fucks that live their whole life on their computer and that's it. i can put a song on limewire right now and sign any artist's name to it. if you don't know anything about johnny cash don't even write your lame fuckin comments about him being racist. he was the anti racist so try some of his music and you'll figure it out. and i beg you to find that song on anything he ever released.

Johnny Cash | Reviewer: Lincoln | 4/19/09

Oh my god, i do not agree at all with nine inch boils but Go onto youtube and search:"Johnny Cash I Walk The Line 1999" or if that doesnt change your mind then "Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong" and if you are still being idiots then "Johnny Cash And Ray Charles" so look into this before you start judging a man, i for a fact know that he didnt write it but maybe that might show you that he did not give a flying fuck about what Colour someones skin was and if he was racist which he wasnt then you cant help that because he grew up in the south in the 1940's.
Lincoln Baxter

Johnny Cash isn't racist | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/12/09

The song was written by either Odis and the 3 Bigots or Johnny Rebel. Someone with better knowledge should know, but the bottom line is, it wasn’t Johnny Cash, and I’m not surprised because he’s not capable of such indecency. Anyone who listens to Johnny Cash's music would agree.

Taken from wikipedia:
Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of Cajun/country musician Clifford Joseph Trahan (born October 3, 1938), also known as Pee Wee Trahan. Trahan has used this pseudonym most notably on racist[1]recordings issued in the 1960s on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label of Crowley, Louisiana.[1][2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rebel_(singer)

Again, taken from wikipedia:
In the 1960s, Rockwell attempted to draw attention to his cause by starting a small record label, named Hatenanny Records (the name was based on the word "hootenanny", a term given to folk music performances). The label released several 45 RPM singles, including recordings by a group credited as Odis Cochran and the Three Bigots, and were sold mostly through mail order.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell

It's amazing what a little research can uncover.

Johnny Cash | Reviewer: Sharon | 2/18/09

Wow! Ignorance is really rampant. The man wrote the song, he is a racist and why does a people who raided, raped and murdered countless people believe they have more right to a land than those that was already here or the ones that were born here also? I do not believe there is a human alive that was here during slavery so who are you to say go back??? Go back where? I think you need to go back to school. I had a new teacher once who came to my school who said she could not believe there were so many dumb white students in one school and this was a school of excellence. I can't believe there are so many dumb people in America. If you think skin color makes a man then you are an idiot. Oh, and stay out of the sun.

dumb | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/10/09

you guys are idiots. there are countless upon countless amounts of songs mis labeled on limewire, with the wrong artists or song titles or album names. most people that put songs on there are idiots that dont label things right, or intentionally mis label them to get more dls.

Austin | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/14/08

All of you are an embarassment to America. You are so simple and so accepting because you are trying to love your hero Johnny Cash. He is a legend, everyone knows that. But at some point he was a racist bigot, and thats a fact too. So really, you are just in love with a racist legend. Thats ok, just own it. Denying this makes you sound absolutly stupid you bunch of country bumpkins! Just because you like him or saw him once doesnt change shit. I'd love to ship you all back where you came from. Fuckers.

so amazing | Reviewer: natasha musgrove | 10/14/08

johnny cash is so amazing he is my hero. yes he did drugs but look at the hell he went through i'm not making excuses for him just stating the facts. he tried and i know he did. i never met him but that is okay. i still think he is amazing and no one can change my mind. music should be good and meaningful and that's just what his music was. end of story you disagree go die in a hole i don't give a crap what you think your dumb if you think he was a bad person because that is not the case

noone | Reviewer: shane | 8/25/08

noone has the right to judge a legend i personaly dont think he wrote the song(ship those n*****s back) but even if he did hes a legend better then any of todays artist so who ever said retarted redneck hick or whatever you said your the nigger and the racist for thinking he wrote the song get your facts straight before you judge legends asshole!johnny rebel and the 3 bigbots do you research prick!let the legend live on jr cash

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