Johnny Cash is a hall of famer with a hall of fame personality. He grew up in middle of nowhere, Arkansas, learning the hard work of picking cotton from his father and the fun and joys of family and music from his mother. When his brother died, Johnny Cash was at a young age but he grew soon to make friends and especially befriend girls all while singing all the time. Singing carried him through the air force right onto to tour as a young adult. The rush of singing in front of thousands was the greatest feeling ever for Cash until he found family. He cared about family until he cared more about getting high than his first marriage. Johnny Cash, overcame his drug addiction while having a long and influential career and ending up a devout christian, a loving husband and father, and a friend to all. Johnny Cash loved people and people loved him. He cared about whatever he was doing. Whether making music, seeing friends, or being a husband and father he cares about …show more content…
First of all, the people who really knew Johnny called him J.R., and Johnny came about when he became famous. Home Cash liked to be alone. He has his own ranch just for himself and he goes there after tours to cool down and relax. He doesn't like to listen to music he just likes to walk around and live in peace for a few hours. However he can't stay away from John Carter too long. He always loved seeing his family. The way he got himself into trouble was when he couldn't separate the tour Cash and the home one. Cash would come home and do anything to stay away from his first wife. She just made arguments against him getting high all the time and that's exactly what he wanted to do. Cash couldn't just quit his drug habits off tour. He was always getting high and eventually it put him in a hospital. Unfortunately it almost killed him the way he tried to hide his drugs at the hospital. However God told him not to die, he needed to make
Early on his mother saw the interest that Johnny had in music and “Carrie Rivers Cash scraped together enough money so that Johnny could take singing lessons” (Editors, 2016). Johnny unfortunately lost his brother “Jack in a tragic death in 1944 jack was only 14, this was to a farming accident” (Editors, 2016). In 1950 Johnny graduated High School and had a few jobs until he join the Air Force. He did his “basic training in Texas, where met Vivian Liberto, whom he 'd eventually marry and father four daughters with” (Editors, 2016). In 1954 Johnny was discharged from the military and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Cash was married Vivian in 1954 and they had two girl named Roseanne and Kathy born in 1957. In 1959 they had another daughter named Cindy. They moved to Ventura, California and had another girl named Tara born in 1961. Johnny’s schedule and the amount of pressure from having the family took a toll on him. “Drugs and alcohol were frequent tour companions while Vivian stayed at home with the children” (Editors, 2016). “Johnny Cash toured throughout the early 1960s, playing as many as 300 shows a year. He began taking amphetamines to keep up with the pace of his life” (Silva, 2016). “As his drug addiction worsened, Cash broke up with his first wife Vivian. By 1963, he had moved to New York City, effectively abandoning his family” (Silva, 2016). Vivian finally filled for a divorce in 1966, once the divorce was finalized he moved back to Memphis, Tennessee were the
Johnny R. Cash, a Songwriter, Singer, and a musician. He is one of the greatest musicians of all time. Johnny was raised in Kingsland Arkansas on a cotton farm where most of his child life happened. As he got older he started getting into the Air Force. He started to get a love for airplanes.
Johnny cash was born in Kingsland AR. His family was made up of his six siblings his parents and of course him. In 1950 he enlisted in the air-force. After he served he moved to Memphis TN, where he sold door to door appliances, then he went to live in CA to start a family. A few years later when life wasn’t working out in CA so he moved back to TN. He had seven children Rosanne, Tara, Kathy, Cindy, Rosey, Carlene, and John cash.
Johnny’s daughter Kathy once quoted “And dad had this, just real sad guilt thing his whole life, you could look in any picture and see the dark sadness thing going on”. Transition: now that I have shown you Johnny’s hardship stricken childhood lets progress to his rise to fame and the consequences that followed it. II. Johnny Cash’s rise to fame A. First recordings 1.
(Moore 138) Due to the fact that he grew up in a neighborhood where other did drugs sold drugs and committed crime he started to get influenced by them and he became one of them. He started doing whatever he saw around him , he was fed up dealing with police and his criminal acts because he would on do it for them it was his job and he didn’t have to do it. One of his examples goes back to , his father, Westley, fell a major victim to drugs and alcohol resulting in Mary abandoning him.
Throughout his career he struggle with drugs and alcohol. Even through all his struggles he is one of three people to ever be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country music hall of Fame. During his career he perform for inmates at several prisons , the most famous was Folsom Prison. Who Was Johnny Cash Singer JR Cash, who would later be known as Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland Arkansas in 1932. He grew up poor, his family didn’t have much.
On May 26, 1949 a country music icon was born, but no one knew at the time. Hank Williams Jr, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana to a loving, country family. Hank Williams Jr, dad is Hank Williams Sr, who was also a country singer but died at a very young age. Hank followed behind his dad and looked up to him, so he became a country singer. He began singing at a young age, his dad died when he was four and he started singing at the age of eight years old. He pursued his country singing at a young age and appeared on the Grand Ole Opry singing one of his dad’s hit songs.
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (Redding), commonly known as Otis Redding, was an American blues artist in the 20th century. Redding made his way into popularity in a short period of time. He was a part of many performing groups and influenced by other popular blues artists to create his unique sound. Otis Redding was a southern artist that had an important influence on the music industry and culture in the 1960s. Otis Ray Redding Jr. was born September 9, 1941 in Dawson, Georgia .
"He lived and he loved the songs that he wrote and the songs that he sang. He’s a man of great courage. He’s kind. He’s gentle and he has God-given talents. He chose a career he was hoping he could make a difference in. That career made a difference in
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“Other kids could play cowboys and Indians and imagine that they’d grow up to be cowboys,” he wrote in his Living Proof autobiography. “I couldn’t do that. I knew that I would never grow up to be a cowboy or a fireman or the president of the United States. I knew I’d grow up to be a singer. That’s all there ever was, the only option, from the beginning.” http://www.hankjr.com/career-biography/
They just paid him off and let him do as he pleased. Needless to say the drugs and alcohol started early. His parents knew what he was up to, but what the hey, they did it too. He just needed to sow his wild oats and get it out of his system--the same as they never did.
Later on, Cash reached so much fame that he was on the top charts with people such as, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley. During this time, Cash reached number one of the country billboards with his most well known song, “I Walk the Line.” On stage, he could keep it together, but off stage was a totally different story. Behind the scene of the shows, “His hectic lifestyle fed an addiction to amphetamines and other pills and alcohol, and he began displaying erratic behavior” (“Country”). Cash even went so far as to fly across the border to Mexico just to buy Dexedrine and Equanil- two different black market drugs.
However, his adult life wasn’t always an easy ride, he encountered plenty of bumps on his rise to success. Around 1958, Johnny Cash started what would become a lifelong battle with drugs and alcohol that would get in the way of his music, and turned out to be the cause of the divorce of his wife with whom he had four daughters (Johnny Cash Biography). In 1965, Cash was caught trying to sneak amphetamines across the border of Mexico. (Johnny Cash Biography). However, this didn’t stop Johnny. His addictions continued and after an almost fatal overdose and close-call car accident, his wife had had enough. They were divorced, and Cash moved to Nashville. Here, he met June Carter (of the Carter Sisters) with whom he began recording and performing with. By 1967, Carter had served as a support and inspiration to Cash, and they were married in 1968. Following his
Johnny Cash achieved many accolades in his long, influential life. Debatably the most noteworthy is how he is one of three artists, Elvis, Hank Williams, and Cash, who is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Becoming a member of both is not an easy feet for any artist. In order to do so one has to be the very best in each style of music. Cash at 48 became the youngest performer to ever be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (Danker). Kris Kristofferson put it the best way, “You felt like he should've had his face on Mount Rushmore” ( Kristofferson). This view was really how the American public viewed J.C. He was an American hero on par with Presidents or war heroes. He was given as