Johnny Cash
Birthday: February 26, 1932
Birth Place: Kingsland, Arkansas, USA
Height: 6' 1"

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Biography

Movie Credits

Best of Country Live!	(2006)
Viva Blackpool	(2006)
[ David Morrissey ][ Keith Allen ]
Silent Hill	(2006)
[ Sean Bean ][ Roger Avary ][ Kim Coates ]
Fun with Dick and Jane	(2005)
[ Jim Carrey ][ Alec Baldwin ][ Jason Marsden ][ Clint Howard ][ David Herman ]
Daltry Calhoun	(2005)
[ Johnny Knoxville ][ Tom Waits ][ David Koechner ][ Andrew Prine ]
Walk the Line	(2005)
[ Joaquin Phoenix ][ Robert Patrick ][ Tyler Hilton ][ Larry Bagby ][ Ridge Canipe ]
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan	(2005)
[ Martin Scorsese ][ Bing Crosby ]
Flight of the Phoenix	(2004)
[ Dennis Quaid ][ Giovanni Ribisi ][ Jared Padalecki ][ Hugh Laurie ][ Tyrese Gibson ]
Kill Bill: Vol. 2	(2004)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Michael Madsen ][ David Carradine ][ Sid Haig ][ Robert Ri'chard ]
Dawn of the Dead	(2004)
[ Ving Rhames ][ Mekhi Phifer ][ Kevin Zegers ][ George A. Romero ][ Matt Frewer ]
Starsky & Hutch	(2004)
[ Ben Stiller ][ Owen Wilson ][ Vince Vaughn ][ Will Ferrell ][ Jason Bateman ]
Underground 2	(2004)
[ Frank Sinatra ][ Phil LaMarr ]
The Hunted	(2003)
[ Benicio Del Toro ][ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ William Friedkin ][ Eddie Velez ]
Frailty	(2001)
[ Matthew McConaughey ][ Bill Paxton ][ Jeremy Sumpter ][ Powers Boothe ][ Matt O'Leary ]
One Night at McCool's	(2001)
[ Michael Douglas ][ Matt Dillon ][ John Goodman ][ Paul Reiser ][ Andrew Dice Clay ]
Tumbleweeds	(1999)
[ Noah Emmerich ][ Michael J. Pollard ][ Jay O. Sanders ]
Happy, Texas	(1999)
[ Ron Perlman ][ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ Steve Zahn ][ Jeremy Northam ]
Finding North	(1998)
[ John Benjamin Hickey ]
Jackie Brown	(1997)
[ Robert De Niro ][ Quentin Tarantino ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Michael Keaton ][ Chris Tucker ]
Perdita Durango	(1997)
[ James Gandolfini ][ Javier Bardem ]
Before Women Had Wings	(1997)
[ John Savage ][ William Lee Scott ][ Burt Young ]
The Big One	(1997)
[ Michael Moore ][ Willie Nelson ]
U Turn	(1997)
[ Joaquin Phoenix ][ Sean Penn ][ Billy Bob Thornton ][ Jon Voight ][ Nick Nolte ]
Feeling Minnesota	(1996)
[ Keanu Reeves ][ Vincent D'Onofrio ][ Dan Aykroyd ][ Delroy Lindo ]
Moonshine Highway	(1996)
[ Randy Quaid ][ Kyle MacLachlan ]
Grumpier Old Men	(1995)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Walter Matthau ][ Kevin Pollak ][ Burgess Meredith ]
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead	(1995)
[ Christopher Walken ][ Steve Buscemi ][ Don Cheadle ][ Andy Garcia ][ Christopher Lloyd ]
Love and a .45	(1994)
[ Rory Cochrane ][ Peter Fonda ][ Gil Bellows ][ Jeffrey Combs ][ Wiley Wiggins ]
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone	(1994)
[ Martin Kove ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Jay Underwood ]
Lightning Jack	(1994)
[ Cuba Gooding Jr. ][ Paul Hogan ][ Richard Riehle ][ Pat Hingle ][ Roger Daltrey ]
The Thing Called Love	(1993)
[ River Phoenix ][ Dermot Mulroney ][ Elvis Presley ][ Willie Nelson ][ Anthony Clark ]
A Perfect World	(1993)
[ Clint Eastwood ][ Kevin Costner ][ Bradley Whitford ][ Bruce McGill ][ Willie Nelson ]
Red Rock West	(1992)
[ Nicolas Cage ][ Dennis Hopper ][ J.T. Walsh ][ Dwight Yoakam ]
Dutch	(1991)
[ Ethan Embry ][ John Hughes ][ Ed O'Neill ][ Christopher McDonald ][ Will Estes ]
Texasville	(1990)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Randy Quaid ][ William McNamara ][ Willie Nelson ][ Timothy Bottoms ]
Illegally Yours	(1988)
[ Rob Lowe ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Kenneth Mars ][ Leon Rippy ]
The Big Town	(1987)
[ Matt Dillon ][ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ Tom Skerritt ][ Bruce Dern ]
The Winning Hand	(1985)
[ Willie Nelson ]
Desert Hearts	(1985)
[ Elvis Presley ][ Jeffrey Tambor ][ Dean Butler ][ Johnnie Ray ]
Raamit ränniin	(1985)
They All Laughed	(1981)
[ John Ritter ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Peter Bogdanovich ][ Ben Gazzara ]
The Pride of Jesse Hallam	(1981)
[ Eli Wallach ]
Country Superstars of the 70s	(1979)
A Concert: Behind Prison Walls	(1977)
Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus	(1973)
[ Kris Kristofferson ]
Johnny Cash i København	(1971)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy	(1970)
[ Robert Redford ][ Michael J. Pollard ]
The Road to Nashville	(1967)
Hootenanny Hoot	(1963)

Trivia

• Treated for Pneumonia. [November 1997]
• Father of Rosanne Cash.
• Is the only person besides Hank Williams to have been inducted into the Songwriters, Country Music, and Rock And Roll Halls of Fame.
• Brother of country singer Tommy Cash.
• Once had his truck catch on fire and burn down half of a national forest, when the judge asked him why he did it, he said, "I didn't do it, my truck did, and it's dead."
• In the years shortly before his death, he recorded songs by other contemporary artists, including cover versions of U2's "One", Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus", Richard Thompson's "Tear Stained Letter", Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", Loudon Wainwright III's "The Man Who Couldn't Cry", Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and the song "Thirteen" written especially for him by gothic rocker Glenn Danzig.
• Recorded entire albums live in Folsom and San Quentin Prisons, in front of highly receptive audiences of convicts.
• His album "Bitter Tears" contains original songs told from the viewpoint of Native Americans.
• He chose songs for a running series of compilations of songs that comprised the main themes of his work. The first three compilations are titled "Love", mostly songs he wrote for June Carter Cash, "God", a series of gospels and "Murder", perhaps his favorite subject, but one whose title he encouraged people "not to go out and do". Released slightly later was "Life", mostly songs about hard work and economic struggling.
• He suffered from a fear of flying and snakes.
• Father of John Carter Cash.
• His album, "The Man Comes Around", features his rendition of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt". Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor admitted that at first he was angry about the cover (as he wrote it from a deeply personal point of view). But when he heard the song and saw the video for the first time, said he was deeply moved and found Cash's cover beautiful and meaningful.
• Father of Tara Cash
• The son of poor cotton farmers, whose economic and personal struggles during the Depression (when Johnny was growing up) shaped him as a person and inspired many of his songs.
• Son-in-law of Mother Maybelle Carter.
• The scar to the right of his mouth was the result of a botched attempt to remove a cyst while he was serving in the Air Force in Germany.
• Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and Johnny are the only three musicians to have been inducted both to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• The US Air Force would not accept "J.R." as a given name when he enlisted, so he became John R. Cash. He signed for Sun Records in 1955 (a year after his discharge) and had his name changed again ... to Johnny Cash
• He was addicted to speed (usually with alcohol or morphine as a chaser) through much of his 20s until 1967, when June Carter Cash and numerous members of his friends and family staged an arduous but successful intervention. It is thought that Cash had an addiction personality which he may have inherited from his genes, as many members of his family were addicts to various vices.
• His songwriting went from a brief process to a very long one as he aged and his health declined. He wrote the song "Big River" while on a short boat-ride across the Hudson River in the 1950s, while he spent weeks crafting "The Man Comes Around," one of the last songs he wrote.
• Father of Cindy Cash.
• Brother of Reba Hancock and Joanne Cash Yates.
• Brother-in-law of Ray Liberto.
• His size varied considerably over time. Standing 6' 2", he weighed about 200 pounds as a young man, but then his weight plummeted to an unhealthy 140 pounds when his drug addiction was at its peak in the mid-1960s. His weight increased when he kicked his habits, and he eventually became overweight, weighing about 250 pounds by his 50s.
• Father of Kathy Cash.
• He went through much of the 1970s on a sanctimonious cloud, having associated himself with evangelists, turned his shows into gospel performances where he encouraged people to accept Jesus Christ and condemned blatant sexuality and violence in culture. Cash said in the 1990s that, although his faith remained as strong as ever and many of his songs expressed this, his attitudes had changes and he found his 1970s overzealousness distasteful, having learned to respect that people should have their own beliefs.
• He had long since kicked his drug habit when, in a bizarre series of events in the early 1980s, he was attacked by a male Ostrich he had been keeping on his farm after he had threatened the huge bird. He was put onto pain killers to survive the critical injuries and quickly became an addict again. He checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic, successfully quit pain killers, and made friends with Ozzy Osbourne while at the Clinic.
• He was often at odds with his producers after he had discovered with his first producer (Sam Phillips) that his voice was better suited to a stripped-down musical style. Most famously he disagreed with Jack Clement over his sound, Clement having tried to give Cash's songs a "twangy" feel and to add strings and barbershop-quartet-style singers. His successful collaboration with Rick Rubin was in part due to Rubin seeking a minimalist sound for his songs.
• He was friends with every U.S. President starting with Richard Nixon. He was least close with the last two, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, because of a personal distrust for both men and because of his declining health. He was probably closest with Jimmy Carter, who was actually a very close friend and distant family of his wife, June Carter Cash. None of these friendships were about politics, as he never particularly supported any administration but was just friendly with the men.
• Backed by the "Tennessee Two": Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins. Later named: The Tennessee Three, with W.S. Holland (drums) added. After Perkins' death, he was replaced by Bob Wootton.
• Step-father of Rosey Nix Adams.
• He had assumed in his younger days that he was mainly Irish and preferred to think he was at least partially Native-American. However, upon researching his ancestry, he found he was of completely Scottish heritage. As a matter of fact, he found records of direct ancestors in Scotland who shared the name "Cash" dating back to the 16th century.
• Although he could bear it, he disliked being defined as a "country" artist, feeling that his music wasn't really genre-defined and noting that he often stood well outside of the Nashville mainstream (particularly towards the end of his career). Technically, his music contains elements of rock 'n' roll, folk music, bluegrass, blues and gospel as well as country-style music.
• Cash and "American Recordings" posted a "thank you" to the Nashville country music industry in Billboard Magazine after winning the Grammy for best country record for "Unchained" in the form of the infamous photo of Johnny angrily giving the middle finger to the camera taken back in 1969 during his San Quentin prison performance. Cash did this because he was enraged by Nashville having pretty much left behind him and other aging "country" artists who had defined the genre to make room for the more pop-oriented new country artists, like Garth Brooks.
• After the 1950s, when he wrote almost all of the songs he performed, he performed many covers. On the average album, he was the writer of about a third of the songs.
• Is mentioned in the Danish band Nephew's single "Superliga".
• His older brother (the sibling Johnny was closest to as a child) died in a horrible accident involving a buzz saw when Johnny was young, and it was never clear whether it was accidental, suicide, or even murder. Wracked with guilt, Johnny, by most accounts, never got over the death (it was a little-known, personal obsession of his to investigate the incident) and it is widely thought that his dark world view was shaped by it.
• Often had sketches done about him on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). He was usually portrayed by the late Phil Hartman and, later, has been occasionally played by Darrell Hammond. Coincidentally, both funnymen were best known for playing another famous Arkansas native, Bill Clinton.
• Member of the Highway Men with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome had recorded several albums together in the 1980s & 1990s
• He was voted the 31st Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
• When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in 1972, President Richard Nixon's office requested that he play "Okie from Muskogee" (a Merle Haggard song that negatively portrays youthful drug users and war protesters) and "Welfare Cadillac" (a Guy Drake song that derides the integrity of welfare recipients). Cash refused to play either song (he apparently found both songs morally reprehensible) and played a series of his own more left-leaning, politically-charged songs, including "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (about a brave Native-American World War II veteran who was racially mistreated upon his return to Arizona) and "Man in Black" (which contains angry, anti-war lyrics, which Cash almost certainly wrote about the Vietnam War).
• During his early shows the "Tennessee Two", he would frequently make mocking introductions of his bandmates. He would introduce laconic guitarist Luther Perkins, who was secretly terrified of performing in public, and add either that he was in "rigor mortis" or that his pulse had been checked beforehand to make sure he was still alive. Then he would introduce bassist Marshall Grant, who would usually hop around and dance with great energy as he chewed gum at shows, as "playing the chewing gum."
• Cash's career was at an all-time low in the 1980s and he realised his record label of nearly 30 years, Columbia, was growing indifferent to him and wasn't properly marketing him, so to kill the relationship with the label before they did, Cash recorded "Chicken in Black". An intentionally awful song about Johnny's brain being transplanted to a chicken, it ironically turned out to be a larger commercial success than any of his other recent material. However, it wasn't long after "Chicken in Black" that Columbia and Cash parted ways.
• He was given the name J.R. on his birth certificate, because his parents couldn't agree on a name, only on initials. He adopted John R. Cash as his given name when he joined the Air Force, which did not accept initials.
• In his song "Man in Black" he explained that he wore predominately black clothing to honour and remind others of the suffering of the world's poor and oppressed.
• Was ranked #1 of the 40 greatest men in country music.
• The video for "Hurt", from the album "The Man Comes Around" was voted greatest music video ever made accoridng to a panel assembled by the UK newspaper "The Guardian".
• In the 1970s he tried to help his close friend, legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland, restart his career by bringing him into the studio to record.
• Stated in an interview with Larry King that his favorite country singer is Dwight Yoakam.
• The band Coldplay were supposed to record a song titled "Til Kingdom Comes" with him for their album "X&Y", but Cash died before that. They added the song as a hidden track and dedicated it to Cash. In their current "Twisted Logic Tour" they are playing this song in all the venues in addition to playing a cover of Johnny Cash's famous song "Ring of Fire". On the two nights(6 & 7 September 2005) at Madison Square Garden, New York they also dedicated the song "Til Kingdom Comes" to the victims of hurricane Katrina.
• Kingsland, Arkansas (pop. 477), is also the birthplace of Paul 'Bear' Bryant, one of the greatest football coaches of all time (University of Alabama).
• Contrary to popular belief, he never served more than one night in prison (he was held once over night in custody after being caught smuggling 1,163 amphetamine tablets across from Mexico). He actually wrote "Folsom Prison Blues" after seeing a documentary called Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951).
• After his good friend Carl Perkins fell from grace due to a crippling car accident and alcoholism, Johnny took him on a touring guitarist and supported Perkins by performing songs written by him.
• His good friend Kris Kristofferson admitted that he wrote his well-known and not-entirely-flattering "Pilgrim" about Cash.
• Stepfather of Carlene Carter.
• Stepdaughter Rosey Nix Adams, a country music singer, died on Oct. 24, 2003. Cause of death was accidental carbon monoxide poisoning from six heaters on her bus. She was 45.
• Cash's long-time lakeside home in Hendersonville, Tennessee was bought by a corporation owned by The Bee Gees' Barry Gibb in January 2006.
• Apart from his performances at Folsom Prison and San Quentin, Cash also performed at Österåkeranstalten (The Österåker Prison) north of Stockholm, Sweden in 1972. The recording was released in 1973. Between the songs Cash can be heard speaking Swedish which was greatly appreciated by the inmates.
• Mentioned in the song "Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me" by Reunion.
• Founded his first band called "Landsberg Barbarians" while being a radio operator of the US Air Force in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.
• His guitarist, Bob Wootton of The Tennessee Three, acted as Cash's stunt double anytime there was a scene that required him to ride a horse because he had a fear of horses.
• Proposed to wife June Carter Cash over 30 times before she finally said "Yes".
• Among "The Highwaymen", Johnny was old friends (or "blood brothers" as he put it) with Waylon Jennings. Kris Kristofferson idolized Cash and the two become close friends while in "The Highwaymen". Cash was least close with Willie Nelson, but the two were always friendly, despite the competitive eye they kept on one another.
• Johnny's "Hurt" was the theme song of WWE's Raw Tribute to the late Eddie Guerrero. The song plays while Eddie Guerrero's memorial is playing.
• Along with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, He was a member of celebrated "The Million Dollar Quartet". So named because they were money-makers for Sam Phillips's Sun Records Label.
• He was awarded the American National Medal of Arts in 2001 from the National Endowment of the Arts.
• Godfather of John Keach, the son of Jane Seymour.
• In the 80s, he found love letters to his wife, June Carter Cash from Elvis Presley in their attic. Upon finding these, he burned them.

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