To begin, Johnny Cash had a rough start in life. According to biography.com, he was born J.R. Cash (although nobody quite knows what the R stands for) and was the son of a poor sharecropper. He spent much of his childhood working in the fields with his family to pay off all of their debts. It wasn’t an easy life, and music was one of the only ways he could escape all of life’s hardships. His family was extremely religious and this had a strong impact on his life. His mother was a member of the Pentecostal Church of God and his older brother, Jack, grew up certain that he would one day join the priesthood. Johnny and Jack were extremely close growing up, then one day Jack was pulled into a spinning saw at the mill he worked at, and was almost
