Johnny Cash's 1968 live record "At Folsom Prison" sold millions of copies that year. At that time, he often went to prisons or labor camps to perform for the prisoners. And talk with them about government and politics. The famous rock artist Bob Dylan invited Johnny Cash to perform a duet with him, and it was this time that the two of them appeared on the ABC TV show together.

Thanks to the spread of television, Johnny Cash soon became the most famous actor in the area. Johnny Cash won almost all Country Music Association awards in 1969. He won the Best Artist Award, the Male Singer Award, and the Best Group Award together with Jane Carter***. The album "Johnny Cash at San Quantin" became his second award-winning album that year. Johnny Cash's single "A Boy Named Sue" also won the Best Single award that year.

"The Johnny Cash Show" (Johnny Cash Live) premiered on television on June 7 of the same year (featuring guest stars Bob Dylon and Joni Mitchell) and became the summer series of that year. programme. It continued broadcasting in January of the following year and continued until May 1971, with a weekly audience of 23 million.

On April 17, 1970, at his peak, Johnny Cash accepted an invitation from White House official H. R. Haldeman, who invited Johnny Cash to perform at the White House. The then President of the United States, Richard Nixon, asked him to sing three songs, but Johnny Cash only sang two, including the song "Okie From Muskogee." At the guest's request, he also sang "A Boy Named Sue" and the controversial anti-Vietnam War song "What Is Truth", which reached No. 3 on the charts.

In May of the same year, Johnny Cash and Kris Douglas filmed the movie "A Gunfighter" together. On September 6, his song "Sunday Morning Coming Down" for the film began to chart. This song was written by Kirs Douglas after her divorce. Johnny Cash once told Bill Flanagan of "Music Man" magazine about this before his death: "The people at Kris's company told him (referring to Kris) that if he sang his songs for me, it would be a no-no. He couldn't. But one Sunday, he landed in a helicopter in my yard and brought this song 'Sunday Morning Coming Down'. When Kris got off the helicopter, he had a glass of beer in one hand and a plate in the other. tape, and gleefully gave me his song." Johnny Cash recorded the song and it stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. Later, CMA (Country Music Association of America) named this song the best song of the year on October 6. It just so happened that the "Nashville Composers Association" established its Hall of Fame on October 12, and Johnny Cash's name was finally included in 1977.

In 1982, with the support of Sun Records, Johnny Cash released a new album "The Survivors". Three years later, he collaborated with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson on the album Highwayman, which they performed together accidentally in the late 1980s. In 1990, they released Highwayman 2. In 1995, these music elites released the album "The Road Goes On Forever" together.

In the mid-1980s, Johnny Cash began a long-term cooperation with Columbia (Columbia Records).

In 1986 he began working on and off with Mercury Records. In the late 1980s, he performed more frequently, and almost always brought his wife and two daughters, Helen and Anita Carter, with him. It was in the past few years that he entered the film industry and television performances. At the same time, Johnny Cash also began to have health concerns and had heart surgery and was frequently taking painkillers.

In 1992, he had written more than 400 songs and was well-known in the country music industry. Also this year, he released the album "The Essential Johnny Cash". In 1993, his "American Recordings" once again cheered music lovers, and another classic was born. At this time, he was working for the record company of the same name. In this way, Johnny Cash has been following his own smooth music path. Although things went wrong and Johnny Cash's health was inversely proportional to his music career, he still continued to create new things and make progress. , until wandering on the way to heaven with music.

JOHNNY CASH, an American country music legend who has been in the music industry for more than 50 years, died of respiratory asphyxia caused by diabetes on September 12, 2003, in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 71 years old.

JOHNNY CASH is one of the most important singer-songwriters who influenced the modern American country, pop, rock and folk circles. With his rich and deep baritone and simple and powerful guitar, he created his own With a unique voice, his music straddles country music and rock music. Among the more than 400 songs he composed in his life, more than 100 songs have entered the top 40 of the country charts. He is a voice for many different walks of life in the United States. He has a unique American perspective, and his works range from the social observation of intellectuals, the miserable life of the blue-collar class, the mixed emotions in love, the true voices of ordinary people in the market, and even the psychological description of criminals. ...etc., it can be said to be the voice of conscience representing all Americans. The life of johnny cash is known as an outstanding representative of the American grassroots spirit. From the beginning, he was a completely humble music lover (he even started to touch the guitar for the first time when he was 20 years old). Through his own efforts, he rose from a soldier to a A singer who ran in bars, signed a contract with a company, and gradually became a great singer with a high reputation who was respected and supported by fans. In the process, he took drugs, dealt with major record companies due to financial disputes, and experienced failed marriages... What has never changed is Cash's concern for people from disadvantaged groups. On New Year's Day in 1960, Cash went to San Quentin Prison to perform for those criminals who were considered villains. The music deeply moved everyone present, and even influenced a man who was sentenced for theft. A prisoner who served 14 years in prison and finally became a country singer! After the death of Johnny Cash, "Rolling Stone" magazine published a memorial tribute to Bob Dylan. In it, he said: ...Johnny wrote thousands of lyrics like this. He represents our land and our country. ! He expressed everything about us plainly in English: I think we can recall everything about him, but we cannot use higher words to evaluate him than truth, light, and beauty. If we want to understand human beings, we only need to turn our attention to the man in black (cash often appears in public in black, so he is called the man in black. At the same time, he also has a song with the same name). God gave him an extraordinary imagination, and he used this gift to express some kind of confusion and ignorance deep in people's souls, and they felt their own insignificance. Johnny was born into a cotton farmer family and served in the U.S. Air Force. He was discovered by legendary record producer Sam Phillips in 1954, and can be said to be Elvis Presley's senior brother.

He has a deep voice and likes to wear black. He has recorded more than 1,500 songs in his life, including "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire", and has sold more than 50 million records.

He has won 11 Grammy Awards and was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards last month for his "Hurt" music video. He is also the first singer to be inducted into the Rock, Country and Songwriting Halls of Fame simultaneously. But he once said that all his achievements must be attributed to his second wife, June, because he was a drug addict in the 1960s. After marrying her in 1968, June helped him detoxify and turn him around. His songs have become even bigger recently. Popular with young music fans. U.S. President Bush praised Johnny as a far-reaching music legend and American symbol, and said in a statement: "His majestic voice and compassionate heart have touched generations of people, and he will be missed." Johnny once sang a cover of U2's song In the song "One", the lead singer Bono said the day before yesterday that Johnny has always taken good care of him, and praised him as a very smart person, like an oak tree among the weeds. Johnny's family will hold a public memorial ceremony later. Who is Johnny Cash? There are a thousand answers to this question. In the past few months, I have successively bought several well-known albums by Johnny Cash. Starting from these three Love/God/Murder, I have also listened to his classic American Recordings and Solitary Man from the 1990s. Cash’s deep voice has an Asian undertone. Countless common people's memories since the founding of the United States. Listening to his recordings, sometimes you will feel that he is 300 years old, and sometimes it seems that he is still a young man in his twenties, playing around in the recording studio with the newly debuted Elvis Presley. If one were to rank the most important country music singers after World War II, Cash's name would definitely be in the top three no matter how you calculated it. People call him Man In Black (the word was born because of him), and the reason why he wears black is because social justice has never been upheld. He said that until justice comes to the world, he will continue to wear black. . He was once a drug and alcohol evangelist and an ex-convict who had been in jail several times, so he loved touring prisons to entertain the inmates. At Folsom Prison is a live video recorded in a prison. Cash became famous very early. He became successful at a young age. He lost control of his life and became addicted to drugs and alcohol. His wife filed for divorce and the entertainment industry boycotted his performances. He hit rock bottom and learned from the pain. He quit his addiction and returned to the spotlight and met his old acquaintance. June Carter (another heartbreaker from a broken marriage) got married, made amazing music, had a career again, and became a household icon. He was also one of the most popular television hosts in the 1970s, with thousands of Americans waiting in front of their televisions every week to watch the Johnny Cash Show. He asked Bob Dylan to sing Girl From The North Country with him on the show, and that scene became the collective memory of an entire generation. After listening to Johnny Cash for several months, I increasingly don’t know where to begin to introduce this great singer. He has too many stories, and the music history involved is both deep and wide. He is a legend from head to toe. .

With a music career that spans nearly fifty years, Johnny Cash is far more than just a superstar in the history of American pop music. To some extent, he is already one of the founders of the contemporary "American grassroots spirit." First, just like the great Woody Gutherie and Elvis, he created a self-sufficient world in which history, myth, love, betrayal, sin and dreams are all mixed together. Using the term "country music" to govern Johnny Cash's music is of course not wrong, but it will also lose focus, because if Johnny Cash's contribution is taken away from the face of contemporary American grassroots music, a large part will collapse on the spot. An intricate territory.

In particular, the so-called "Country Outlaws" party that "ran away" from Nashville's traditional and conservative country music scene extended all the way to the new generation of alternative country, grassroots rock, and neo-folk movements in the 1980s and 1990s, including Bob Dylan. From the basement tapes to the country days of Nashville Skyline, to the country rock experiments conducted by the Byrds, Gram Parsons, Poco and others at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, Johnny Cash’s dark figure hangs like a huge cloak over the heads of these descendants. .

He was in the same class as Elvis Presley. Like Elvis Presley in his early years, he recorded many classic works at the world-famous "Sun Recording Studio" in Memphis. These recordings from the Sun period are just like Cat Presley. Like Elvis's SunSessions, it is one of the earliest records of the emerging art of "rock music". His famous song "I Walk The Line" set the tone for his music as early as 1955, and also set the tone for rockabilly: a kind of music that swept through early rock music. The grassroots rock music form that combines Hillbilly music and fierce rhythm has set the standard. From Carl Perkins to Eddie Cochran to Buddy Holly and even Elvis, without Cash's initiative, rockabilly would not have grown into what it is, let alone what the Beatles would have become in a few years. Even if Johnny Cash only left these recordings from the Sun era, he would have become a founding hero of early rock music like Buddy Holly. Of course, he did not go down the path of a genius who died young. Johnny Cash lives to this day and is nearly 70 years old. While struggling with Parkinson's disease, he is still able to produce the masterpiece American III: Solitary Man that made music fans cry and music critics stand in awe. It also won the hearts of millions of young people. The hearts of music fans - many of whom grew up listening to Nirvana. They knew this old man from the campus radio station that specialized in alternative rock, and then couldn't help but fall in love with his deep, condensed and bottomless voice.