You have to sidestep the 80s-era production touches, but it’s worth it to hear Cash singing with fellow titans Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Jim Webb’s title song is a masterpiece about reincarnation, and listen for the Captain Kirk moment when Cash enters on: ‘ I fly a starship across the universe divide.’ The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a rendition of his "Folsom Prison Blues" while the San Quentin record included the crossover hit single " A Boy Named Sue", a Shel Silverstein-penned novelty song that reached number one on the country charts and number two on the U.S. top-10 pop charts. Gross, Terry (2004). All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (hardcovered.). Hachette. Miller, Stephen (2003), Johnny Cash: The Life of an American Icon, Omnibus, ISBN 978-0-7119-9626-7 .

In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox – Carol Burnett (2016) Turner Publishing (2004). Lionel Trains: A Pictorial History of Trains and Their Collectors. Turner Publishing Company. p.19. ISBN 978-1-56311-958-3. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth – Rachel Maddow (2020) American Recordings Johnny Cash sings with a Navy lieutenant during a military event c. January 1987Edwards, Leigh H. "Cash, Johnny." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Taking the Lead – Today's Christian". Archived from the original on April 10, 2008 . Retrieved April 28, 2015. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) In 1980, Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living inductee at age 48, but during the 1980s, his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, although he continued to tour successfully. In the mid-1980s, he recorded and toured with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen, making three hit albums, which were released beginning with the originally titled Highwayman in 1985, followed by Highwaymen 2 in 1990, and concluding with Highwaymen– The Road Goes On Forever in 1995. Graeme Thomson, The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt, Redemption, and American Recordings, Jawbone Press, ISBN 978-1-906002-36-7 Clapp, R (2008), Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, ISBN 978-0-664-23657-1 .

Inmate Merle Haggard hears Johnny Cash play San Quentin State Prison", history.com; accessed June 24, 2014. Rivkin, D., ed. (2007), Johnny Cash reading the complete New Testament (audio recording) (deluxeed.), Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Early life Cash's boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas, where he lived from the age of three in 1935 until he finished high school in 1950; the property, pictured here in 2021, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The home was renovated in 2011 to look as it did when Cash was a child. Streissguth, M. (2006). Johnny Cash: a biography. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-306-81591-1. Tahmahkera, D. (2011). Volume 63. In American Quarterly (p. 597). Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.Jojola, Lloyd (January 31, 2011). "ABQJOURNAL PROFILES: Sanchez: Matriarch to Musicians". Albuquerque Journal. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020 . Retrieved February 5, 2020. Things you didn't know about Johnny Cash". Rolling Stone. October 31, 2013. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014 . Retrieved August 29, 2014. In 2019, Sheryl Crow released a duet with Cash on her song "Redemption Day" for her final album Threads. Crow, who had originally written and recorded the song in 1996, recorded new vocals and added them to those of Cash, who recorded the song for his American VI: Ain't No Grave album. [167] Episode: " El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"; voice acting role Fox, JA (October 17, 2005), "Hard time's never a 'circus' ", The Boston Herald, Baylor University, archived from the original on September 20, 2006 , retrieved March 22, 2010

Candidates – Inductee Johnny Cash". Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 6, 2008. . Born to sharecropper parents in 1932 in Arkansas, Cash (christened J. R. when his parents couldn’t agree on a first or middle name) worked in the cotton fields as a boy, dreaming along with radio broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. By the age of 12 he was playing guitar and writing songs. In 1955 he signed to Sun Records (where Elvis Presley made his first recordings). In 1999, Cash received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Cash number 31 on their "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list [149] [150] and No. 21 on their "100 Greatest Singers" list in 2010. [151] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked Cash's 1968 live album At Folsom Prison and 1994 studio album American Recordings at No. 88 [152] and No. 366 [153] in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. According to Urbanski, Cash's self-perception was accurate: "He never intended to be categorized or pigeonholed", and indeed he amassed a "cluster of enigmas" which "was so impenetrably deep that even those closest to him never got to see every part of him". [144] Abbott, William. "Johnny Cash– February 26, 1932– September 12, 2003". Southernmusic.net . Retrieved December 31, 2011.Dave Urbanski, The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash. Relevant Books, 2003, p. 117. In April 2019, it was announced that the state of Arkansas would place a statue of Cash in the National Statuary Hall in an effort to represent the modern history of Arkansas. The Governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, stated that Cash's contributions to music made him an appropriate figure to tell the story of the state. [168] Portrayals Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2018, as " Farm No. 266, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home." [30]