Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash (February 26th 1932 with Kingsland, Arkansas - September 12th 2003 with Nashville, Tennessee) is a Chanteur and Compositeur of music American Country , generally considered as one of the most important singers of its generation. It is also known for its political commitment and its action in favor of the penitentiary prisoners.

Biography

Beginnings

Cash grows in the true universe of the fields of Coton of the south of the the United States. The music was integral part of the American rural life and the Johnny young person impregnates himself, at that time, of various influences such as: the Folk, the Anthem S religious, the Gospel and the Country. After several experiments of difficult work in several fields, Cash enlists in the US Air Force and is sent in Germany, where it buys its first Guitare and forms its first group. On its return, it is established with Memphis in the Tennessee and marries Vivian Liberto. In 1954, Johnny Cash auditions for the recording company of Sam Phillips, Sun Records. Next spring, it records, using its group The Tennessee Three (Luther Perkins with the Guitare, Marshall Grant with the Contrebasse and Red Kernodle with the “pedal steel”), its first 45 turns Hey Porter .

Consequently, successes are connected: Cry, Cry, Cry , Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line . In 1957, in the search of more than artistic freedom, the singer decides to sign with the company of disc Columbia. On this label, Cash records at the beginning of the Années 1960, Don' T Take Your Guns to Town and The Balad off Ira Beam .

Descent into Hell

The collateral effects of growing success and the rounds cash not less than 300 spectacles per annum plunge one Cash exhausted in the hell of the Amphétamine S and of the Barbiturique S. It turns then with the singer June Carter and an ambiguous love affair settles between the two artists, each one being married on its side. Cash, moreover, is then father of two young children.

At the end of this difficult period, it decides to put an end to its dependence with the stimulants, divorces his first wife and June wife. The song Boxing ring off Fire , written by June Carter and whose Cash composes arrangements of coppers, described the devastations of the Alcoolisme and the Drogue which haunted Johnny Cash. At the end of this decade and at the beginning of the Years 1970, Johnny Cash is with the apogee of her Article the recordings carried out at the time of a spectacle inside two Prison S, Folsom Prison and San Quentin (which failed to degenerate into riot) reaches the prestigious statute of Disques of gold. Thereafter, Johnny Cash signs a contract, with the television channel ABC, in order to animate an emission éponyme, which will be recorded with the Ryman Auditorium of Nashville.

End of the year 1970

At the end of the Years 1970, the artist records parts of authors Progressiste S such as: Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and Nick Lowe. This immersion in the rebellious universe is not without price: many radio stations “country” boycott this new style with the favor of artists with a more popular sound. The Années 1980 are shaded by health issues and the end of its association with Columbia. It continues all the same to traverse America on board its bus of round, as well in solo as with his friends Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson within the group The Highwaymen .

In 1992, Johnny Cash receives the honor to be named with the Rock-and-roll Hall off Famed and becomes thus the only person to be introduced at the same time with the Rock-and-roll Hall off Famed , with the Country Music Hall off Famed and with the Songwriters Hall off Famed . The end of this millenium will take an unexpected turning in the career of the artist with the meeting of the producer Rick Rubin.

This collaboration will give place to a series of six albums known as American Recordings , the fifth and sixth will appear in a posthumous way. These albums represent for much the artistic revival of Johnny Cash; they contain many resumptions of artists of horizons very varied like U2, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Nine Inch Nails. June Carter, his second wife, was the girl of famous the Mother Maybelle Carter. In 1973, June Carter and Johnny Cash, all the two strong monks, produced Gospel Road ( Sentier of the Gospel ), a film over the last days of the Christ, with Carter in the role of Marie-madeleine. Johnny Cash played in an episode of Columbo ( song of the swan ), in an episode of the small house in the meadow ( the great collection ) like in several episodes of the series Doctor Quinn, lady doctor with his June wife, where he interprets a Shérif hunter of premium married to a good Christian woman. Roseanne Cash (born in 1955), the girl of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, is a singer of Rock and Country.

Johnny Cash dies four months only after the death of his wife.

Homages

the writer Arno Bertina is the author of a " biographical fiction " on Johnny Cash: I learned how not to laugh at the demon , Paris, Naïve, coll Sessions, 2006,151p. The book comprises three parts, which correspond to three times (1954, 1965,1995) and to three narrators (a salesman of bibles, a sheriff, and the producer Rick Rubin) telling each one their meeting with Cash.

Walk the Line of James Mangold is a film of 2005 reporting in a fictionalized way the career of Johnny Cash with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Cash at the side of Reese Witherspoon in the role of June Carter which obtained a Oscar of the cinema for its interpretation.

In homage to the artist, several singers and actors appear in a clip where one intends Cash to interpret God' S gonna cut you down and where one sees in particular Kris Kristofferson, Brian Wilson, Bono, Justin Timberlake, Kate Moss, Keith Richards, Adam Levine, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Sheryl Crow, Mick Jones, Sharon Stone, Lisa Marie Presley, Billy Gibbons, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jay Z, or Johnny Depp (this playing last of the guitar). The singer and the bass player of the Red Hot Chili Peppers group, Anthony Kiedis and Michael " Flea " Balzary, also appeared in this clip homage.

the American rappor Sage Francis pays homage to Johnny Cash in her album " In Healthy Distrust" with a song entitled " Jah didn' T kill Johnny".

References

Johnny Cash in collaboration with Patrick Carr, Cash, the autobiography , astral Beaver, 2006,368p.

Discography

External bonds

Official site
Video Johnny Cash
complete Discography, on Music City
Interview with Video Online
Site of an admiror
Rock'n'roll Hall off Famed
Discography
Johnny Cash Lyrics
of Johnny Cash singing '' Hurt '' funeral mirror
Praise of Johnny Cash
morning Edition of NPR of November 6th, 2002 with musical pieces
I Hear The Train A' Comin: Johnny Cash 1932-2003 Buddy Siegal remembers Cash
Site of admirors
Johnny Cash, singer religious

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