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Johnny Cash: the Truth Seeker Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum • Words & Music • Grades 7-12 Johnny Cash: The Truth Seeker In 1970, Johnny Cash scored a hit with a protest song called “What Is Truth,” but the question in the title could easily be the theme running through all of the legendary singer-songwriter’s music. In a monumental career that spanned six decades, Cash used his lyrics as a moral compass to explore life’s complexities. “I want to write a song that has something to say—a song that will have a meaning not only for me, but for everybody who hears it,” he said. Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on February 26, 1932. Often he relied on the melodies of old folk songs, “rewriting One of seven children in a farming family, he absorbed gospel the lyrics or taking the basic idea and creating a new song,” music in church, country music from the radio, and old-time Cash expert Don Cusic writes. “This is part of the folk tradition folk music in porch sing-alongs. When he was twelve, his of songwriting. ... Every song written is influenced by songs the beloved older brother Jack died in an accident—a tragedy that songwriter has heard before.” haunted Cash’s life and turned him to writing poetry, stories, Deeply religious, Cash wrote about both saints and sinners as and song lyrics. After high school, he spent four years in the he struggled to overcome his own personal demons. Likewise, air force, a time when he began a serious pursuit of music, he praised America’s virtues while pointing out its flaws. In learning the guitar, writing songs, and forming an off-hours liner notes of his album Unchained, he cites a lengthy list of his country band. “obsessions,” including family, hard times, horses, railroads, war, Out of the air force, Cash moved to Memphis, where he made patriotism, humor, prison, salvation, death, pride, heartbreak, a living as an appliance salesman while attracting the attention and God. of Sun Records, the label that launched Elvis Presley’s career. After a career decline in the 1980s, Cash sealed his stature as At first, Cash wanted to record gospel, but Sun producer an American music original with a series of raw recordings, Sam Phillips turned the young singer toward “rockabilly”— including some reworkings of his earlier songs. Recording a country-rock hybrid—and Cash began to make waves on almost up to his final days, Cash died on September 12, 2003, in country charts with his self-penned songs. Nashville, Tennessee, of complications from diabetes. His name As Cash developed his career in the 1960s, he drew on gospel, is enshrined in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the country, and folk traditions to write his music, and he was Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he also received the National especially influenced by a new wave of folk music that addressed Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal. social issues. Cash soon set himself apart from other country “In the end, as in the beginning,” author Graeme Thomson artists with his lyrics that focused on the plight of Native writes, “Johnny Cash proved a master at articulating not just his Americans and the nation’s prison population. own dark, sweet, complicated heart, but something profound about us all.” Sources: Encyclopedia of Country Music; Johnny Cash: The Songs, edited by Don Cusic; The Resurrection of Johnny Cash by Graeme Thomson; Rolling Stone LISTEN: READ: “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash (HarperOne, 2003): Cash describes his rise from “Flesh and Blood” humble Arkansas roots to country music greatness. “Folsom Prison Blues” Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpieceby Michael Streissguth (Da Capo Press, 2004): The author tells the story of Cash’s blockbuster album, recorded at a California “I Still Miss Someone” state penitentiary. “I Walk the Line” Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn (Little, Brown and Company, 2013): The noted “The Man in Black” music critic brings to light the man behind the music. “Tennessee Flat Top Box” Johnny Cash: The Songs, edited by Don Cusic (Da Capo Press, 2004): This collection of lyrics “What Is Truth” of Cash’s best-known songs is organized by subject. The Resurrection of Johnny Cash by Graeme Thomson ( Jawbone Press, 2011): The author recounts Cash’s career revival in the 1990s..
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