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.’

Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. He also lent his voice for a cameo role in The Simpsons episode " El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)", as the "Space Coyote" that guides Homer Simpson on a spiritual quest.Rutz, Heather (June 7, 2013). "Lima native creative director at new Johnny Cash museum". The Lima News . Retrieved December 11, 2015. 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]

Columbia Music, the label for which Cash was recording then, was opposed to putting the song on his next album, considering it "too radical for the public". [72] Cash singing songs of Indian tragedy and settler violence went radically against the mainstream of country music in the 1950s, which was dominated by the image of the righteous cowboy who simply makes the native's soil his own. [73] a b Singer Johnny Cash adopted by Senecas [ permanent dead link]. Unidentified Western New York newspaper (June 25, 1966). "Cash is one-quarter Cherokee: his paternal grandmother was a full-blood Cherokee." Burnett, John G. (December 11, 1890). "Birthday Story of Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838–39". Creoliste . Retrieved November 4, 2016.

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Dave Urbanski, The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash, Relevant Books, 2003, p. 91. 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 . 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. The Essential Johnny Cash(2×CD, Compilation, Limited Edition, Remastered, Stereo, Mono, DADC Pressing)

Cash was raised by his parents in the Southern Baptist denomination of Christianity. He was baptized in 1944 in the Tyronza River as a member of the Central Baptist Church of Dyess, Arkansas. [125]

Cash performed at the Österåker Prison in Sweden in 1972. The live album På Österåker ( At Österåker) was released in 1973. "San Quentin" was recorded with Cash replacing "San Quentin" with "Österåker". In 1976, a concert at Tennessee State Prison was videotaped for TV broadcast, and received a belated CD release after Cash's death as A Concert Behind Prison Walls.