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In this period of the mids, Cash released a number of concept albums. His Bitter Tears was devoted to spoken word and songs addressing the plight of Native Americans and mistreatment by the government. While initially reaching charts, this album met with resistance from some fans and radio stations, which rejected its controversial take on social issues.

The album was considered lost until the early 21st century. In , a book was published about it, leading to a re-recording of the songs by contemporary artists and the making of a documentary film about Cash's efforts with the album. His Sings the Ballads of the True West was an experimental double record, mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration. Reaching a low with his severe drug addiction and destructive behavior, Cash was divorced from his first wife and had performances cancelled, but he continued to find success.

Cash was last arrested in in Walker County, Georgia , after police found he was carrying a bag of prescription pills and was in a car accident. Cash attempted to bribe a local deputy, who turned the money down. The singer was jailed for the night in LaFayette, Georgia. Sheriff Ralph Jones released him after giving him a long talk, warning him about the danger of his behavior and wasted potential. Cash credited that experience with helping him turn around and save his life.

There is an unconfirmed story that in early , Cash had a spiritual epiphany in the Nickajack Cave. The story says that Cash had attempted to commit suicide while under the heavy influence of drugs. He descended deep into the cave, trying to lose himself and "just die", but passed out on the floor. Utterly discouraged, he felt God's presence in his heart and struggled out of the cave despite exhaustion by following a faint light and slight breeze.

June, Maybelle, and Ezra Carter moved into Cash's mansion for a month to help him get off drugs. The couple married a week later on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky. She had agreed to marry Cash after he had "cleaned up. Cash's journey included rediscovery of his Christian faith. According to longtime friend Marshall Grant , though, Cash did not completely stop using amphetamines in Cash did not end all drug use until , maintaining that for a period of seven years. Cash began using amphetamines again in By , he was deeply addicted again and entered the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage for treatment.

He stayed off drugs for several years, but relapsed again. Several months later, his son followed him into this facility for treatment. Cash began performing concerts at prisons starting in the late s. Both live albums reached number one on Billboard country album music and the latter crossed over to reach the top of the Billboard pop album chart. In , Cash became an international hit when he eclipsed even the Beatles by selling 6.

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The AM versions of the latter contained profanities which were edited out of the aired version. The modern CD versions are unedited, thus making them longer than the original vinyl albums, though they retain the audience-reaction overdubs of the originals. In '57, I wrote a song called 'Old Apache Squaw' and then forgot the so-called Indian protest for a while, but nobody else seemed to speak up with any volume of voice. Columbia, 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".

In , coming off the chart success of his previous album " I Walk The Line ", he recorded the aforementioned album Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. The film's DVD released August 21, The album featured stories of a multitude of native peoples, mostly of their violent oppression by white settlers: Cash wrote three of the songs himself and one with the help of Johnny Horton , but the majority of the protest songs were written by folk artist Peter La Farge [67] son of activist and Pulitzer prizewinner Oliver La Farge , whom Cash met in New York in the s and whom he admired for his activism.

In reaction, on August 22, , the singer posted a letter as an advertisement in Billboard , calling the record industry cowardly. So is Rochester, Harlem, Birmingham and Vietnam. Later, on The Johnny Cash Show , he continued telling stories of Native-American plight, both in song and through short films, such as the history of the Trail of Tears.

In , in response to his activism, the singer was adopted by the Seneca Nation's Turtle Clan. He performed benefits in at the Rosebud Reservation, close to the historical landmark of the massacre at Wounded Knee , to raise money to help build a school. He also played at the D-Q University in the s. Johnny Cash used his stardom and economic status to bring awareness to the issues surrounding the Native American people. Many non-Native Americans stayed away from singing about these things.

In , Cash recorded a reading of John G. Burnett's 80th-birthday essay [76] on Cherokee removal for the Historical Landmarks Association Nashville. The Statler Brothers opened up for him in every episode; the Carter Family and rockabilly legend Carl Perkins were also part of the regular show entourage. Pollard , and Lauren Hutton. Cash had met with Dylan in the mids and became closer friends when they were neighbors in the late s in Woodstock, New York.

Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Cash sang a duet with Dylan on Dylan's country album Nashville Skyline and also wrote the album's Grammy -winning liner notes. Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was Kris Kristofferson , who was beginning to make a name for himself as a singer-songwriter.

During a live performance of Kristofferson's " Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down ", Cash refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact:. On a Sunday morning sidewalk I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned. The closing program of the Johnny Cash show was a gospel music special.

By the early s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black". He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long, black, knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day - rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. In , Cash wrote the song " Man in Black " to help explain his dress code:. We're doing mighty fine I do suppose In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back Up front there ought to be a man in black.

He wore 'black' on behalf of the poor and hungry , on behalf of "the prisoner who has long paid for his crime," and on behalf of those who have been betrayed by age or drugs. Apart from the Vietnam War being over, I don't see much reason to change my position The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the young are still dying before their time, and we're not making many moves to make things right. There's still plenty of darkness to carry off.

His band and he had initially worn black shirts because that was the only matching color they had among their various outfits. He wore other colors on stage early in his career, but he claimed to like wearing black both on and off stage. He stated that political reasons aside, he simply liked black as his on-stage color. In the mids, Cash's popularity and number of hit songs began to decline. He made commercials for Amoco and STP , an unpopular enterprise at the time of the s energy crisis.

In , he made commercials for Lionel Trains , for which he also wrote the music. The Autobiography , appeared in It was released in Cash viewed the film as a statement of his personal faith rather than a means of proselytizing.

Cash and June Carter Cash appeared several times on the Billy Graham Crusade TV specials, and Cash continued to include gospel and religious songs on many of his albums, though Columbia declined to release A Believer Sings the Truth , a gospel double-LP Cash recorded in and which ended up being released on an independent label even with Cash still under contract to Columbia. He continued to appear on television, hosting Christmas specials on CBS in the late s and early s. Later television appearances included a starring role in an episode of Columbo , entitled "Swan Song". Johnny and June also appeared in Dr.

Quinn, Medicine Woman in recurring roles. He was closest to Jimmy Carter , with whom he became close friends and who was a distant cousin of his wife, June. When invited to perform at the White House for the first time in , [89] Richard Nixon's office requested that he play " Okie from Muskogee " a satirical Merle Haggard song about people who despised youthful drug users and war protesters , "Welfare Cadillac" a Guy Drake song which denies the integrity of welfare recipients , and "A Boy Named Sue".

Cash wrote that the reasons for denying Nixon's song choices were not knowing them and having fairly short notice to rehearse them, rather than any political reason. Johnny Cash was the grand marshal of the United States Bicentennial parade. In , Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame 's youngest living inductee at age 48, but during the s, his records failed to make a major impact on the country charts, although he continued to tour successfully.

During that period, Cash appeared in a number of television films. In , he starred in The Pride of Jesse Hallam , winning fine reviews for a film that called attention to adult illiteracy. In the same year, Cash appeared as a "very special guest star" in an episode of the Muppet Show. In , he appeared as a heroic sheriff in Murder in Coweta County , based on a real-life Georgia murder case, which co-starred Andy Griffith as his nemesis and featured June Carter in a small but important role. Cash had tried for years to make the film, for which he won acclaim. Cash relapsed into addiction after being administered painkillers for a serious abdominal injury in caused by an unusual incident in which he was kicked and wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm.

At a hospital visit in , this time to watch over Waylon Jennings who was recovering from a heart attack , Jennings suggested that Cash have himself checked into the hospital for his own heart condition. Doctors recommended preventive heart surgery, and Cash underwent double bypass surgery in the same hospital.

Both recovered, although Cash refused to use any prescription painkillers, fearing a relapse into dependency. Cash later claimed that during his operation, he had what is called a " near-death experience ". Cash's recording career and his general relationship with the Nashville establishment were at an all-time low in the s. He realized that his record label of nearly 30 years, Columbia, was growing indifferent to him and was not properly marketing him he was "invisible" during that time, as he said in his autobiography.

In , Cash released a self-parody recording titled "Chicken in Black" about Cash's brain being transplanted into a chicken and Cash receiving a bank robber's brain in return. Biographer Robert Hilburn, in the published Johnny Cash: The Life , disputes the claim made that Cash chose to record an intentionally poor song in protest of Columbia's treatment of him.

On the contrary, Hilburn writes, it was Columbia that presented Cash with the song, which Cash — who had previously scored major chart hits with comedic material such as "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece at a Time" — accepted enthusiastically, performing the song live on stage and filming a comedic music video in which he dresses up in a superhero-like bank-robber costume. According to Hilburn, Cash's enthusiasm for the song waned after Waylon Jennings told Cash he looked "like a buffoon" in the music video which was showcased during Cash's Christmas TV special , and Cash subsequently demanded that Columbia withdraw the music video from broadcast and recall the single from stores—interrupting its bona fide chart success—and termed the venture "a fiasco.

Between and , he recorded several sessions with famed countrypolitan producer Billy Sherrill who also produced "Chicken in Black" , which were shelved; they would be released by Columbia's sister label, Legacy Recordings , in as Out Among the Stars. After more unsuccessful recordings were released in —85, Cash left Columbia at least as a solo artist; he continued to record for Columbia on nonsolo projects until as late as , recording a duets album with Waylon Jennings and two albums as a member of The Highwaymen. In , Cash returned to Sun Studios in Memphis to team up with Roy Orbison , Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins to create the album Class of '55 ; according to Hilburn, Columbia still had Cash under contract at the time, so special arrangements had to be made to allow him to participate.

After Columbia Records dropped Cash from his recording contract, he had a short and unsuccessful stint with Mercury Records from to During this time, he recorded an album of new versions of some of his best-known Sun and Columbia hits, as well as Water from the Wells of Home , a duets album that paired him with, among others, his children Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash , as well as Paul McCartney.

A one-off Christmas album recorded for Delta Records followed his Mercury contract. His career was rejuvenated in the s, leading to popularity with an audience which was not traditionally considered interested in country music. Cash was enthusiastic about the project, telling Langford that it was a "morale booster"; Roseanne Cash later said "he felt a real connection with those musicians and very validated It was very good for him: He absolutely understood what they were tapping into, and loved it".

The album attracted press attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In , he sang "The Wanderer" on U2 's album Zooropa which was the closing track. According to Rolling Stone writer Adam Gold, "The Wanderer" — written for Cash by Bono, "defies both the U2 and Cash canons, combining rhythmic and textural elements of Nineties synth-pop with a Countrypolitan lament fit for the closing credits of a Seventies western. Although no longer sought-after by major labels, he was offered a contract with producer Rick Rubin 's American Recordings label, which had recently been rebranded from Def American, under which name it was better known for rap and hard rock.

The album had a great deal of critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Cash wrote that his reception at the Glastonbury Festival was one of the highlights of his career. This was the beginning of a decade of music industry accolades and commercial success. On the same album, he performed the Bob Dylan favorite " Forever Young.

Cash and his wife appeared on a number of episodes of the television series Dr. The album was produced by Rick Rubin with Sylvia Massy engineering and mixing. Believing he did not explain enough of himself in his autobiography Man in Black , he wrote Cash: The Autobiography in In , Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy—Drager syndrome , a form of multiple system atrophy. According to biographer Robert Hilburn, the disease was originally misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease , and Cash even announced to his audience that he had Parkinson's after nearly collapsing on stage in Flint, Michigan , on October 25, Soon afterwards, his diagnosis was changed to Shy—Drager, and Cash was told he had about 18 months to live.

The illness forced Cash to curtail his touring. He was hospitalized in with severe pneumonia , which damaged his lungs. Solitary Man and American IV: The Man Comes Around June Carter Cash died on May 15, , at the age of At the July 5, , concert his last public performance , before singing "Ring of Fire", Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage:. The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and Heaven.

She came down for a short visit, I guess, from Heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has. She's never been one for me except courage and inspiration. I thank God for June Carter. I love her with all my heart. Cash continued to record until shortly before his death. His final recordings were made on August 21, , and consisted of "Like the ", which appeared on American V: A Hundred Highways in , and the final song he completed, "Engine ", which was recorded for his son John Carter Cash for a planned Carter Family tribute album.

While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Cash died of complications from diabetes around 2: His health may have worsened due to a broken heart over June's death.

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In June , Cash's lakeside home on Caudill Drive in Hendersonville was put up for sale by his estate. The listing agent was Cash's younger brother, Tommy. On April 10, , during major renovation works carried out for Gibb, a fire broke out at the house, spreading quickly due to a flammable wood preservative that had been used. The building was completely destroyed. A Hundred Highways , was released posthumously on July 4, The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top album chart for the week ending July 22, Cash was raised by his parents in the Southern Baptist denomination of Christianity.

A troubled but devout Christian, [] [] Cash has been characterized as a "lens through which to view American contradictions and challenges. Snow with outreach to people in the music world. A biblical scholar , [1] [] [] Cash penned a Christian novel , Man in White in and in the introduction writes about a reporter, who interested in Cash's religious beliefs, questions whether the book is written from a Baptist, Catholic, or Jewish perspective. Cash denies an answer to the book's view and his own, and replies, "I'm a Christian. Don't put me in another box.

He then sang, "Family Bible". Cash is credited with having converted actor and singer John Schneider to Christianity. Cash nurtured and defended artists such as Bob Dylan [43] on the fringes of what was acceptable in country music even while serving as the country music establishment's most visible symbol. Cash himself appeared at the end and performed for the first time in more than a year. Two tribute albums were released shortly before his death; Kindred Spirits contains works from established artists, while Dressed in Black contains works from many lesser-known musicians.

In total, he wrote over 1, songs and released dozens of albums. A box set titled Unearthed was issued posthumously. The set also includes a page book that discusses each track and features one of Cash's final interviews.

Prior to this, having been closed for a number of years, the museum had been featured in Cash's music video for "Hurt". The house subsequently burned down during the renovation by the new owner. On November 2—4, , the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival was held in Starkville, Mississippi, where Cash had been arrested more than 40 years earlier and held overnight at the city jail on May 11, The incident inspired Cash to write the song "Starkville City Jail".

The festival, where he was offered a symbolic posthumous pardon, honored Cash's life and music, and was expected to become an annual event. The museum offers public tours of the bus on a seasonal basis it is stored during the winter and not exhibited during those times. A limited-edition Forever stamp honoring Cash went on sale June 5, The stamp features a promotional picture of Cash taken around the release of " Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. On October 14, , the City of Folsom unveiled phase 1 of the Johnny Cash Trail to the public with a dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Roseanne Cash.

Along the trail, eight larger-than-life public art pieces will tell the story of Johnny Cash, his connection to Folsom Prison, and his epic musical career. In , a new species of black tarantula was identified near Folsom Prison and named Aphonopelma johnnycashi in his honor. At the middle of the fifth inning, people in oversized foam caricature costumes depicting Cash, as well as George Jones , Reba McEntire , and Dolly Parton , race around the warning track at First Tennessee Park from center field to the home plate side of the first base dugout.

The festival honors Johnny Cash and explores the New Deal programs that shaped his childhood in Dyess. The festival includes a concert in the field adjacent to the Cash home and Arkansas roots music in the Colony Circle. On February 8, , the album Forever Words was announced, putting music to poems that Cash had written and which were published in book form in In November , Walk the Line , a biographical film about Cash's life, was released in the United States to considerable commercial success and critical acclaim.

They both performed their own vocals in the film with their version of "Jackson" being released as a single , and Phoenix learned to play guitar for the role. Phoenix received a Grammy Award for his contributions to the soundtrack. John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June, served as an executive producer. On March 12, , Ring of Fire , a jukebox musical of the Cash oeuvre, debuted on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater , but closed due to harsh reviews and disappointing sales on April Actor Lance Guest portrayed Cash. The musical was nominated for three awards at the Tony Awards and won one.

Robert Hilburn , veteran Los Angeles Times pop music critic, the journalist who accompanied Cash in his Folsom prison tour, and interviewed Cash many times throughout his life including months before his death, published a page biography with 16 pages of photographs in Cash received multiple Country Music Association Awards , Grammys, and other awards, in categories ranging from vocal and spoken performances to album notes and videos.

In a career that spanned almost five decades, during which he rose to recording industry icon status, Cash was the personification of country music to many people around the world. Cash was a musician who was not defined by a single genre. He recorded songs that could be considered rock and roll , blues , rockabilly , folk , and gospel , and exerted an influence on each of those genres.

His diversity was evidenced by his presence in five major music halls of fame: His contributions to the genre have been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In , he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. I demand a recount. My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash, and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight.

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