Details". Johnny Cash Infocenter. September 15, 1969. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021 . Retrieved February 5, 2020. Tahmahkera, D. (2011). Volume 63. In American Quarterly (p. 597). Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. In recognition of his lifelong support of SOS Children's Villages, his family invited friends and fans to donate to the Johnny Cash Memorial Fund in his memory. He had a personal link with the SOS village in Dießen, at the Ammersee Lake in Bavaria, near where he was stationed as a GI, and with the SOS village in Barrett Town, by Montego Bay, near his holiday home in Jamaica. [154] [155] The Guitars of Johnny Cash", Fretbase.com, August 2008, archived from the original on October 1, 2008 Streissguth, Michael (2004). Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece (hardcovered.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81338-2. .

In July 1954, another Memphis musician, Elvis Presley, cut his first record, sparking a wave of Elvis-mania as well as an interest in the local producer, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who had issued the record. Later that year Cash, Grant and Perkins made an unannounced visit to Sun to ask Phillips for an audition. The Sun Records owner gave in and Cash and the boys soon returned to show off their skills. Phillips liked their sound but not their gospel-driven song choices, which he felt would have a limited market, and asked them to return with an original song. Urbanski, David (2003), The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash, New York, NY: Relevant Books, ISBN 978-0-9729276-7-3 . Perkins, Carl; McGee, David (1996). Go, Cat, Go!. New York: Hyperion Press. ISBN 0-7868-6073-1. OCLC 32895064. Antonio D'Ambrosio, A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, New York/New York, Perseus Books/Nation Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-56858-637-3 (pb)a b Hilburn, Robert (October 12, 2013). "Johnny Cash's dark California days". LA Times . Retrieved February 20, 2018. Malone, William; McCulloh, Judith (1975), Stars of Country Music, Chicago, IL {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) In 1999, Cash received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Cash number 31 on their "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list [149] [150] and No. 21 on their "100 Greatest Singers" list in 2010. [151] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked Cash's 1968 live album At Folsom Prison and 1994 studio album American Recordings at No. 88 [152] and No. 366 [153] in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Edwards, Leigh (2009). Johnny Cash and the paradox of American Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35292-7. American Recordings Johnny Cash sings with a Navy lieutenant during a military event c. January 1987 It was also in Germany that Cash began to turn more of his attention toward music. With a few of his Air Force buddies, he formed the Landsberg Barbarians, giving Cash a chance to play live shows, teach himself more of the guitar and take a shot at songwriting. "We were terrible," he said later, "but that Lowenbrau beer will make you feel like you're great. We'd take our instruments to these honky-tonks and play until they threw us out or a fight started." Turner Publishing (2004). Lionel Trains: A Pictorial History of Trains and Their Collectors. Turner Publishing Company. p.19. ISBN 978-1-56311-958-3. Allmond, Joy (September 13, 2015). "Johnny Cash's Faith and Friendship with Billy Graham". Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.Jonathan Silverman, Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2010, ISBN 1-55849-826-5 The main street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Highway 31E, is known as "Johnny Cash Parkway". [157] The Johnny Cash Museum, located in one of Cash's properties in Hendersonville until 2006, dubbed the House of Cash, was sold based on Cash's will. Prior to this, having been closed for a number of years, the museum had been featured in Cash's music video for "Hurt". The house subsequently burned down during the renovation by the new owner. A new museum, founded by Shannon and Bill Miller, opened April 26, 2013, in downtown Nashville. [158] In 1986, Cash returned to Sun Studios in Memphis to team up with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins to create the album Class of '55; according to Hilburn, Columbia still had Cash under contract at the time, so special arrangements had to be made to allow him to participate. [107] Also in 1986, Cash published his only novel, Man in White, a book about Saul and his conversion to become the Apostle Paul. He recorded Johnny Cash Reads The Complete New Testament in 1990. Every pill I ever took was an attempt to regain the wonderful, natural feeling of euphoria I experienced the first time. ... It was never as great as the first time, no matter how hard I tried to make it so. Tahmahkera, D. (2011). Volume 63. In American Quarterly (p. 592). Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

In 1970, Cash recorded a reading of John G. Burnett's 1890, 80th-birthday essay [81] on Cherokee removal for the Historical Landmarks Association (Nashville). [82] The Johnny Cash Show From an early age Cash, who began writing songs at age 12, showed a love for the music that enveloped his life. Sensing her boy's gift for song, Carrie scraped together enough money so that he could take singing lessons. However, after just three lessons his teacher, enthralled with Cash's already unique singing style, told him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2018, as " Farm No. 266, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home." [30]