Johnny Cash Research Paper

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Johnny cash is one of the most well-known amazing singer/songwriters of all time. His skill compares to no one else with his depth in his baritone voice, his strange song lyrics, his meaningful song lyrics, his guitar skills or even his funny story lyrics like from “A Boy Named Sue”. Also you might know Johnny Cash from his covers like “Hurt” by The Nine Inch Nails or “Rusty Cage” by Soundgarden. Some of his biggest hits that are his songs are “The Ring of Fire”, “Walk the Line”, and as I mentioned before “A Boy Named Sue”.
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on February 26, 1932. He was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, author, and actor. His parents were Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree and had six other siblings. Knowing how old Johnny …show more content…

He then set his mind to his music career working with some of his older brother’s colleagues. In 1955 he dropped his first big hit “Cry, cry, cry” which reached the billboard charts! Also it finally made a name for himself and led to his next album "Folsom Prison Blues” which one of his best albums ever. It included one of his biggest songs of all time “Walk the line” which hit number one on the country tracks. After that Cash became popular very fast but then he turned down a dark path filled with drugs and alcohol where he started to lose control. He also divorced from his first wife Vivian in 1966 after having 4 children. They split because of his side relationship with the love of his life, his soon to be second wife June Carter. Cash continued on with his musical career by releasing probably his most well-known hit of all time “The Ring of Fire” which was originally performed by a close friend but was given to Cash to do his own rendered performance. Cash started getting out of the dark drug infested pit he was in was in with the help of his partner June whom he married in 1968. This helped him create dark, soulful, meaningful lyrics for his songs which why people love him to this

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