Johnny Cash Thesis

Improved Essays
June and Johnny Cash June and Johnny Cash are some of the most famous singers during their time. They had written many songs together such as one of their most famous "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire". Their love story had made it to theaters; the movie was called Walk the Line. Even though they had tough times while married to each other they had shown that they were always there for each other. Throughout this paper we will get to know June and Johnny separate as well as a married couple and the many struggles they had gone through. June Carter Cash was born, According to bio.com, in Maces Springs, Virginia on June 23, 1929. Her full name was Valerie June Carter and was born from the first family the start of country music. Even though she was known for her appearances as June Carter …show more content…
June had helped Johnny stop his addictions; he had later become a devout Christian. June and Johnny had a TV show called "The Johnny Cash Show". Which had many guest singers and they had also talked about many issues of the world. During the opening of his new show Johnny had won two Grammy's for his album "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison". The album had reached gold. Johnny's career was flourishing; he had appeared in the movie "A Gunfight". He also had written scores and had written a published book. Cash had been accepted into the country music hall of fame, he was the youngest at the time. As Johnny's career was going great Johnny had began to start having health problems and also his drug addiction, which he had started again. Cash had abdominal surgery in Nashville due to his amphetamine use. Later he had undergone heart surgery when he had collapsed on stage during his tour in 1987 in Iowa. After Cash had overcome his health problems he had met Rick Ruben and had released a thirteen track album that was acoustic in 1994. Cash had later won a Grammy for best contemporary folk

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    At night, he played with the Tennessee two (with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant). Cash went to visit the Sun Records studio, hoping to get a recording contract. After auditioning mostly gospel songs, they told him that they didn't record gospel music any more. He come back later and he got a contract.…

    • 424 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Johnny was arrogant enough that he thinks that he can work on a Sunday to make a sugar basin for John Hancock, which is breaking the law. He thinks rules don’t apply to him because he is the greatest silversmith apprentice in Boston. Also, Johnny and Dove had such a tumultuous relationship because Johnny was bossy. Dove gave Johnny a broken crucible which caused the loss of Johnny’s hand and silversmith career.…

    • 1580 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Another honorable moment from Johnny was, Ponyboy and Johnny saved a bunch of kids from a burning church. Johnny wanted to save those kids because they haven’t experienced life yet. Johnny wanted to give the children to live their life because they would live longer on earth than he would. In conclusion, Johnny can be an honorable person despite all of the pain that he has suffered, and being mistreated,he has always been an honorable person.…

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 7, 1962, was Troyal Garth Brooks who is now known nationally as a country music singer. He was the youngest child of his father and mother, Troyal Raymond Brooks, Jr., who was a draft man for an oil company; Colleen McElroy Carroll a 1950's era country singer of Irish. Both his mother and father had been married before so that gave Garth four half-siblings. They then had Kelly and Garth together. Where they lived in Yukon, Oklahoma the family would host talent nights weekly.…

    • 625 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Hank Williams Jr. was born in Shreveport, Virginia On May 26th, 1949. He started his singing career at the age of 8 and started performing at shows. Hank discovered a new combination of music by combining southern rock and blues with country music which gave him his own unique style of music. Hank’s father died when Hank was three. That didn’t stop him from being the country music star that he aspired to be.…

    • 549 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Rhiannon James ARETHA FRANKLIN Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942 on March 24th. A gifted singer and pianist, Aretha toured with her father’s traveling revival show and later visited New York, where she signed with Columbia Records. Aretha went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics. In 1987, she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame and in 2008 she won her 18th Grammy Award making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.…

    • 94 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The president I chose was Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter grew up in Plains, Georgia but didn’t realize he’d grow up to be the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy grew up, his name was James Carter after his dad. So he grew up with the name Jimmy When Jimmy was 5 he sold boiled peanuts for money, and when he was 9, he bought cotton and sold it for money for his family. Jimmy Carter lived an amazing life, young and old.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Can a personal opinion ruin your career when you’re already at the top of your game? In the case of The Dixie Chicks and their view of G.W Bush’s plan to send military in to battle and being from Texas, that seems to be exactly the case. They spent years trying to resolve the feelings of a nation after, what obviously seemed to them to be, a simple statement. Under what circumstances is it acceptable to share your personal view when you are in celebrity status? The Dixie Chicks were riding on top of the world, selling millions of records to fans.…

    • 1032 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Johnny Curtain Analysis

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The first reason Johnny should have allowed Dr. Warren the chance to operate on his hand is Dr. Warren showed…

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Johnny Clay A Bully Story

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Pages

    To emphasize, later in the year after Radio settled he deceived Radio to go into the girl’s locker room. He just wanted a laugh and didn’t care about the ramification that could happen to Radio. On the other hand, Johnny displays remorse for the way he’s acted especially to Radio. Which is displayed when his father told him that…

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” Using this philosophy, Johnny Cash rose to become one of the greatest country music artists of all time. "Feb. 26, 1932, J.R. Cash is born in the town of Kingsland, Cleveland County, Arkansas, to Ray Cash, a farmer, and Carrie Rivers Cash, who takes the family guitar on their travels." (www.johnnycash.com) At the age of three, his father Ray moved his family to Dyess Colony, Arkansas, for a new farming program at the beginning of the Great Depression.…

    • 1342 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Kurt Cobain Analysis

    • 1372 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Nevermind served as a vehicle to express Cobain’s personal and social commentary. The album begins with what has now become one of the most famous teen anthems, Smells Like Teen Spirit. This track singlehandedly assured the unprecedented and unexpected success the album would enjoy. Cobain’s listeners immediately fell upon the lyrics trying to dissect them and relate to the song. The song, to them, voiced their unvoiced fears and angers.…

    • 1372 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    So he robbed a store, and ran to the park where he was shot by the police and killed. With Johnny gone, the gang was very sad, Pony the most. They didn’t realize how much of a big deal he was until he was…

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My “Famous” Grammy Most kids my age aspire to be just like their most beloved celebrities that they only get to see over a television screen. I on the other hand I look up to my grandma. Everyone from toddlers to adults knows that she goes by Grammy. The reason being because when my oldest cousin, Jessica, was a little kid she couldn't enunciate grandma. So she instead called her Grammy.…

    • 359 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, who performs as Kendrick Lamar, was born in Compton, California, on June 17, 1987.”(Biography.com, 2016) “Kendrick Lamar is an award-winning rapper and songwriter best known for his innovative take on life in Southern California as well as for his affiliation with rap star and super-producer Dr. Dre.” (Biography.com, 2016) Kendrick Lamar is quickly becoming one of the most exciting rappers in today’s entertainment world. Like many other known rappers Kendrick Lamar came from a negative and struggling beginning, to a life of money and fame.…

    • 1273 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays