by Steve Turner
April 20 June Carter released her album Press On
July 1-2 June Carter played the Bottom Line, New York
July 29 Anita Carter died at age sixty-six
October 20 Hospitalized with pneumonia
2000
January Started recording third album with Rick Rubin
April 23 Awarded Living Legend medal by Library of Congress
May 23 Triple CD compilation Love, God, Murder released by Legacy
October 17 Released Solitary Man
2001
February Hospitalized with pneumonia
February 21 Won his tenth Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
August 24 June fitted with a pacemaker
2002
February 13 Death of Way lon Jennings
February 26 Columbia launched 70th birthday promotion
September Appeared at Americana Music Association event in Nashville, Tennessee
October 11 Filmed Larry King Live
October 17 June's leaking heart valve detected
October 18-19 Video for "Hurt" shot in Hendersonville, Tennessee
November 4 Released The Man Comes Around
November 4 Traveled to Jamaica with June
November 26 Larry King Live episode aired
2003
January-March Hospitalized three times
April 1 Released from hospital
April 4 Death of sister, Louise
April 11-16 June hospitalized
April 28 June hospitalized
May 7 June had heart surgery
May 15 Death of June Carter Cash
May 18 June Carter Cash funeral
June 21 Appeared in concert at Carter Fold
August 21 Recorded final song, "Engine 143," at Cash Cabin Studio
August 25 -
September 9 Hospitalized for pancreatitis
August 28 Wins MTV video award for Best Cinematography for "Hurt"
September 11 Returned to the hospital in the evening
September 12 Died of respiratory problems
September 15 Funeral at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville, Tennessee
November 10 Tribute concert at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee
November Unearthed 5-CD box set released
Discography
Singles
These are the primary Johnny Cash singles with the highest US pop chart position indicated to the right. The list does not include re-releases, records on which he was a guest vocalist, or Sun singles released after he had signed with Columbia.
June 1955 Hey! Porter / Cry! Cry! Cry!
January 1956 Folsom Prison Blues / So Doggone Lonesome
August 1956 I Walk the Line / Get Rhythm 17
November 1956 There You Go / Train of Love
June 1957 Don't Make Me Go / Next in Line 99
September 1957 Home of the Blues / Give My Love to Rose 88
January 1958 Ballad of a Teenage Queen / Big River 14
May 1958 Guess Things Happen that Way / Come in, Stranger 11
August 1958 The Ways of a Woman in Love / You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven 24
November 1958 All Over Again / Why Do I Care 38
January 1959 Don't Take Your Guns to Town / I Still Miss Someone 32
April 1959 Frankie's Man, Johnny / You Dreamer You 57
September 1959 Five Feet High and Rising / I Got Stripes 43
December 1959 The Little Drummer Boy / I Remember You 63
April 1960 Seasons of My Heart / Smiling Bill McCall
July 1960 Second Honeymoon / Honky-Tonk Girl
October 1960 Going to Memphis / Loading Coal
January 1961 Locomotive Man/ Girl in Saskatoon
May 1961 The Rebel—Johnny Yuma / Forty Shades of Green
September 1961 Tennessee Flat-Top Box / Tall Men 84
January 1962 The Big Battle / When I've Learned
May 1962 In the Jailhouse Now / Little at a Time
August 1962 Bonanza / Pick a Bale 0 ' Cotton 94
November 1962 Were You There? / Peace in the Valley (with the Carter Family)
March 1963 Busted / Send a Picture of Mother
May 1963 Ring of Fire / I'd Still Be There 17
October 1963 The Matador / Still in Town 44
February 1964 Understand Your Man / Dark as a Dungeon 35
December 1964 The Ballad of Ira Hayes / Bad News
February 1965 Orange Blossom Special / All of God's Children Ain't Free 80
October 1964 It Ain't Me, Babe / Time and Time Again 58
June 1965 Streets of Laredo / Mister Garfield
September 1965 The Sons of Katie Elder / Certain Kinda Hurtin'
November 1965 Pickin' Time / Happy to Be with You
February 1966 The One on the Right / Cotton Pickin' Hands 46
July 1966 Everybody Loves a Nut / Austin Prison 96
October 1966 Boa Constrictor / Bottom of a Mountain
January 1967 You Beat All I Ever Saw / Put the Sugar to Bed
July 1967 Jackson / Pack up Your Sorrows (with June Carter)
September 1967 You'll Be All Right / Long-Legged Guitar- Pickin' Man
November 1967 Red Velvet / The Wind Changes
January 1968 Rosanna's Going Wild / Roll Call 91
May 1968 Folsom Prison Blues (live) / The Folk Singer 32
December 1968 Daddy Sang Bass / He Turned the Water into Wine 42
July 1969 A Boy Named Sue / San Quentin 2
November 1969 Blistered / See Ruby Fall 50
February 1970 If I Were A Carpenter / 'Cause I Love You (with June Carter) 36
April 1970 What Is Truth? / Sing a Travelling Song 19
August 1970 Sunday Morning Coming Down / I'm Gonna Try to Be that Way 46
December 1970 Flesh and Blood / This Side of the Law 54
March 1971 Man in Black / Little Bit of Yesterday 58
June 1971 Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues / You've Got A New Light Shining
September 1971 I'll Be Loving You / No Need to Worry
November 1971 I Promise You / Papa Was a Good Man
March 1972 A Thing Called Love / Daddy
May 1972 Kate / The Miracle Man 75
August 1972 If I Had a Hammer / I Gotta Boy (with June Carter)
October 1972 Country Trash / Oney
December 1972 The World Needs A Melody/ A Bird With Broken Wings Can't Fly
February 1973 Any Old Wind that Blows / Kentucky Straight
June 1973 Help Me Make It Through the Night /A Loving Gift (with June Carter)
August 1973 Children / Last Supper
October 1973 Ballad of Barbara / Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup (with the Carter Family)
October 1973 Allegheny / We're For Love (with June Carter)
November 1973 Diamonds in the Rough / Pick the Wildwood Flowers (with Mother Maybelle Carter)
December 1973 Christmas as I Knew It / That Christmas Feeling (with Tommy Cash)
February 1974 Jacob Green / Orleans Parish Prison
April 1974 Ragged Old Flag / Don't Go Near the Water
August 1974 Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy / The Junky and the Juicehead (Minus Me)
October 1974 Father and Daughter / Don't Take Your Guns to Town (with Rosey Nix)
January 1975 The Lady Came from Baltimore / Lonesome to the Bone
May 1975 My Old Kentucky Home / Hard Times Comin'
November 1975 Look at Them Beans / All Around Cowboy
January 1976 Texas 1947 / I Hardly Ever Sing Beer Drinking Songs
March 1976 Strawberry Cake / I Got Stripes
April 1976 One Piece at a Time / Go on Blues 29
July 1976 Sold Out of Flagpoles / Mountain Lady
September 1976 Riding on the Cotton Belt / It's All Over
November 1976 Far Side Banks of Jordan / Old Time Feeling (with June Carter Cash)
April 1977 The Last Gunfighter Ballad / City Jail
September 1977 Lady / Hit the Roa
d and Go
December 1977 Calilou / After the Ball
April 1978 I Would Like to See You Again / Lately
June 1978 There Ain't No Good Chain Gang / I Wish I Was Crazy Again (with Waylon Jennings)
September 1978 Gone Girl / I'm All Right Now
January 1979 It'll Be Her / It Comes and Goes
March 1979 I Will Rock and Roll with You / A Song for the Life
October 1979 Ghost Riders in the Sky / I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Play My Old Guitar
December 1979 I'll Say It's True / Cocaine Blues
March 1980 Bull Rider / Lonesome to the Bone
October 1980 Song of the Patriot/ She's a Go-er
December 1980 Cold Lonesome Morning / The Cowboy Who Started to Fight
February 1981 The Last Time / Rockabilly Blues
April 1981 Without Love / It Ain't Nothin' New, Babe
October 1981 The Baron / I Will Dance with You
January 1982 Mobile Boy / The Hard Way
March 1982 The Reverend Mr. Black / Chattanooga City Limit Sign
November 1982 I've Been to Georgia on a Fast Train / Sing a Song
January 1983 Ain't Gonna Hobo No More / John's Fair Weather Friends
April 1983 I'll Cross over the Jordan Some Day / We Must Believe in Magic
October 1983 Brand New Dance / I'm Ragged but I'm Right (with June Carter)
January 1984 Johnny 99 / New Cut Road
April 1984 That's the Truth / Joshua Gone to Barbados
October 1984 Chicken in Black / Battle of Nashville
October 1985 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train / The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over
December 1985 I'm Leaving Now / Easy Street
June 1986 American by Birth/ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (with Waylon Jennings)
September 1986 The Ballad of Forty Dollars / Field of Diamonds (with Waylon Jennings)
August 1987 The Night Hank Williams Came to Town / I'd Rather Have You
January 1988 The Ballad of Barbara / Sixteen Tons
October 1988 Ballad of A Teenage Queen / Get Rhythm
January 1989 That Ole Wheel / The Last of the Drifters
February 1990 Cat's in the Cradle / I Love You, I Love You
April 1991 The Mystery of Life / I'm an Easy Rider
November 2002 Hurt / Personal Jesus
Albums
These are Johnny Cash's main albums with the highest US pop chart position indicated to the right and the producers) in parentheses. It does not include re-releases, re-recordings, compilations, live recordings released out of sequence, bootlegs, some gospel or albums released by Sun after he had signed with Columbia.
October 1957 Johnny Cash With His Hot-and-Blue Guitar (Sam Phillips)
January 1959 The Fabulous Johnny Cash (Don Law) 19
January 1960 Songs of Our Soil (Don Law)
June 1960 Hymns By Johnny Cash (Don Law)
October 1960 Now There Was a Song (Don Law)
December 1960 Ride This Train (Don Law)
1962 Hymns from the Heart (Don Law, Frank Jones)
1963 The Sound of Johnny Cash (Don Law, Frank Jones)
March 1963 Blood, Sweat and Tears (Don Law, Frank Jones) 80
December 1963 The Christmas Spirit (Don Law, Frank Jones)
March 1964 Keep on the Sunny Side (Don Law, Frank Jones)
January 1965 Bitter Tears (Don Law, Frank Jones) 47
March 1965 Orange Blossom Special (Don Law, Frank Jones) 49
September 1965 Ballads of the True West (Don Law, Frank Jones)
July 1966 Everybody Loves a Nut (Don Law, Frank Jones) 88
November 1966 Happiness Is You (Don Law, Frank Jones)
March 1967 From Sea to Shining Sea (Don Law Productions)
October 1967 Carryin' on with Johnny Cash and June Carter (Don Law Productions)
June 1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (Bob Johnston) 19
February 1969 The Holy Land (Bob Johnston) 54
June 1969 Johnny Cash at San Quentin (Bob Johnston) 1
February 1970 Hello, I'm Johnny Cash (Bob Johnston) 6
November 1970 The Johnny Cash Show (Bob Johnston) 44
March 1971 Little Fauss and Big Halsy [soundtrack] (Bob Johnston I Walk the Line [soundtrack] (Bob Johnston)
June 1971 The Man in Black (Johnny Cash) 56
May 1972 A Thing Called Love (Larry Butler)
November 1972 America (Larry Butler)
November 1972 Johnny Cash Family Christmas (Larry Butler)
February 1973 Any Old Wind that Blows (Larry Butler)
June 1973 The Gospel Road [soundtrack] (Larry Butler)
October 1973 Johnny Cash and His Woman (Don Law)
January 1974 Children's Album (Don Law Productions)
March 1974 Ragged Old Flag (Johnny Cash, Charlie Bragg)
October 1974 The Junkie and the Juicehead (Johnny Cash, Charlie Bragg)
January 1975 Precious Memories (Johnny Cash)
May 1975 John R. Cash (Gary Klein)
November 1975 Look at Them Beans (Don Davis)
March 1976 Strawberry Cake (Charlie Bragg)
June 1976 One Piece at a Time (Charlie Bragg, Don Davis)
February 1977 The last configther Ballad (Charlie Bragg, Don Davis)
August 1977 The Rambler (Charlie Bragg, Don Routh)
April 1978 I Would Like to See You Again (Larry Butler)
April 1979 Gone Girl (Larry Butler)
September 1979 Silver (Brian Ahern)
March 1980 A Believer Sings the Truth (Johnny Cash)
October 1980 Classic Christmas (Bill Walker)
December 1980 Rockabilly Blues (Earl Poole Ball)
June 1981 The Baron (Billy Sherrill)
May 1982 The Survivors [with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins] (Chips Moman)
November 1982 The Adventures of Johnny Cash (Jack Clement)
November 1983 Johnny 99 (Brian Ahern)
September 1985 The Highwayman [with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson] (Chips Moman)
May 1986 Believe In Him (Marty Stuart)
June 1986 Heroes [with Waylon Jennings] (Chips Moman)
May 1987 Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town (Jack Clement)
October 1988 Water From the Wells of Home (Jack Clement)
February 1990 Boom Chickaboom (Jack Clement)
March 1990 The Highwayman 2 [with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson] (Chips Moman)
March 1991 The Mystery of Life (Jack Clement)
August 1991 Country Christmas (Ralph Jungheim)
October 1994 American Recordings (Rick Rubin)
April 1995 The Road Goes on Forever [as the Highwaymen] (Don Was)
November 1996 Unchained (Rick Rubin)
June 1998 VHI Storytellers [with Willie Nelson] (Rick Rubin)
October 2000 Solitary Man (Rick Rubin)
November 2002 The Man Comes Around (Rick Rubin)
Posthumously:
November 2003 Unearthed (Rick Rubin)
Fall 2004 American V (Rick Rubin)
Personal Interviews by the Author
Martyn Atkins, Leo Ard, Earl Poole Ball, John E. Bell, Marie Bergeron, Freddie Bienstock, Eddie Bond, Bono, Joyce Burfield , Sonny Burgess, Larry Butler, Allen Caldwell, Geoffrey Cannon, Patsy Carmichael, Bill Carnahan, Lorrie Carnall, Cindy Cash, Joanne Cash, Johnny Cash, John Carter Cash, Kathy Cash, Rosanne Cash, Roy Cash Jr„Tara Cash, Tommy Cash, Nick Cave, Jack Clement, Rich Collins, Cohen Cox, Janet Curtis, Michael Darlow, Sue Deal, Braxton Dixon, Jo Durden-Smith, Robert Duvall, Andy Earl, Robert Elfstrom, Bobby Emmons, David Ferguson, Gene Ferguson, Tilman Franks, Lou Freeman, Noel Furr, June Gallop, Larry Gatlin, Jack Good, Jim Gosnell, Joy Gower, Marshall Grant, Myra Hall, Bill Hamon, Kelly Hancock, Charles Harnett, A. J. Henson, Everett Henson, Saul Holiff, Jack Hollingsworth, Billie Jean Horton, J. E. Huff, Don Hunstein, Stan Jacobson, Sonny James, Frank Jones, Ralph Jones, Nadine Johnson, Bob Johnston, James Keach, Ron Keith, Merle Kilgore, Kris Kristofferson,
Glenda Lesher, Charlie Louvin, Nick Lowe, Dennis Lynn, Richardson Lynn, Jack Matheson, Richard McGibony, Bob Moodie, Scotty Moore, Willie Nelson, Louise Nichols, Edwin Nix, Glen E. Pennywitt, Ben Perea, Steve Popovich, Don Reid, Harold Reid, Orville Rigdon, Chuck Riley, Edgar Rivers, Dyann Rivkin, Karen Robin, Lou Robin, Michele Rollins, Mark Romanek, Rick Rubin, Billy Shaddix, Jack Sharp, Jean Shepard, John L. Smith, Paul E. Smith, Jimmy Snow, Gerry Stewart, Mark Stielper, Everett Strawn, Al Thurston, Johnny Western, Robert Whitacre, Penny White, Harry Wiland, Courtney Wilson, Christopher Wren, Frank Yonco, Reggie Young.
Endnotes
Reasonable efforts have been made to locate the primary copyright holders of all the material in this book. However, some authors and original sources are still unknown. If anyone can provide knowledge of the authorship, origin, and first publication source for these stories, please relay this information to Editorial Assistant c/o Editorial Department, W Publishing Group, P. 0. Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37217.
Front Matter
1. "The Pilgrim" by Kris Kristofferson. © Resaca Music Publishing Co. EMI New York. Used by permission.
Chapter One • First to Cross
1. "Hurt" written by Trent Reznor. © 1994 Leaving Hope Music/TVT Music Inc. (ASCAP). Administered by Leaving Hope Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
2. "Far Side Banks of Jordan" words by Terry Smith. Published by Silverline Music, Warner/Chappel Music.
3. "Loving God, Loving Each Other" words by William J. and Gloria Gaither. Music by William J. Gaither. Copyright © 1997 Gaither Music Company. All rights controlled by Gaither Copyright Management. Used by permission.
Chapter Two • The Promised Land
1. This tune was composed in 1835 by M. Durham, lyrics written by Samuel Stennett in 1787.
2. The words to Just As I Am were written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835, music written by William Bradbury in 1849.
Chapter 3 • Leaving Home
1. Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography (San Francisco, CA: Harper SanFrancisco, 1997).
2. Johnny Cash, Man in Black (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1975).
3. Christopher Wren, Winners Got Scars Too (New York: Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, 1973).
4. Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography.
Chapter 4 • Walking the Line
1. "Seven Dreams" by Gordon Jenkins. © 1953. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Chapter 5 • Amphetamine Blues
1. Ben A. Green, "Johnny Cash Achieves Life's Ambition. Wins Opry Hearts," Nashville Banner, July 16, 1956.
