78 Things You Don’t Know About Johnny Cash
My personal favorites…
8. He took only one voice lesson, after which the teacher advised him not to let anyone change the way he sang.
11. Though he was never in prison, Cash served a total of 7 nights in jail for different incidents.
24. Cash’s advice on living life on the road: “Back in 1957, there was no Extra Crispy. Other than that, it’s the same.”
26. The first time Cash met honky-tonk pioneer Ernest Tubb, Tubb advised Cash, “Just remember this, son. The higher up the ladder you get, the brighter your ass shines.”
43. The motto on the Cash family coat of arms reads “Better Times Will Come.”
52. According to his autobiography Cash, if he were stuck on a desert island, Cash would bring Bob Dylan’s The Freeweelin’ Bob Dylan, Merle Travis’ Down Home, Jimmie Davis’s Greatest Gospel Hits, Emmylou Harris’ Roses in the Snow, Rosanne Cash’s The Wheel, a gospel album by Rosetta Tharpe, “something by Beethoven,” and You Are There by Edward R. Murrow.
66. The first episode of The Johnny Cash Show featured Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan as guests
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