Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash in his "Hurt" video.
Background information
Birth name	J. R. Cash
Born	February 26, 1932
Origin	Kingsland, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	September 12, 2003 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre(s)	Country, rock and roll, folk, gospel, blues, rockabilly
Years active	1955–2003
Label(s)	Sun, Columbia, Mercury, American, House of Cash, Legacy Recordings
Website	johnnycash.com

Johnny Cash, who was known as "The Man In Black", was an American country singer and songwriter and has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists.

Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice, the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, for providing free concerts inside prison walls and for his dark performance clothing. Later in his music career, his songs echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm" and "Man in Black". He also recorded humorous numbers, including "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter, called "Jackson"; as well as railroad songs including "Hey, Porter" and "Rock Island Line".

Cash declared that he was "the biggest sinner of them all", and viewed himself overall as a complicated and contradictory man. Accordingly, Cash is said to have "contained multitudes", and has been deemed "the philosopher-prince of American country music".

Music VideosEdit

Ain't No Grave Chicken in Black Delia's Gone (featuring Kate Moss) Drive On Folsom Prison Blues God's Gonna Cut You Down Goin' by the Book Help Me Highwayman (with The Highwaymen) Hurt (featuring June Carter Cash) I Walk the Line (Revisited) (with Rodney Crowell) If He Came Back Again (with The Highwaymen)

Jackson (with June Carter Cash) Johnny 99 Let Him Roll (featuring Waylon Jennings) Rusty Cage September When It Comes (with Rosanne Cash) Silver Stallion (with The Highwaymen) Sixteen Tons The Baron (featuring June Carter Cash and Marty Stuart) The Devil Comes Back to Georgia (w/ Mark O'Connor, Charlie Daniels, Marty Stuart & Travis Tritt) The Man Who Couldn't Cry