In 2001, Cash was honored with the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest award for artistic excellence. He died a member of the Rock & Roll, Country Music, Nashville Songwriters and Memphis Music Halls of Fame. JOHNNY CASH IS KING IN NASHVILLE: HIS TUNES, LEGACY AND LEGEND RULE THE MUSIC CITY Cash’s hit-making career lasted nearly half a century and crossed with uncanny easy into multiple genres while capturing a shockingly diverse range of fan bases. Their story was brought to the silver screen in the 2005 Hollywood hit “Walk the Line” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. He thought she was amazing, the bee’s knees,” Lisa Errington, assistant manager of museum and tours for Ryman Auditorium, recently told Fox News Digital in an interview at the auditorium. Cash met the performer from the celebrated Carter country music family backstage after a performance at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Their legendary and tempestuous love affair began in 1950 when starstruck teenager J.R.
JOHNNY CASH’S SON, JOHN CARTER CASH, RECALLS LATER SINGER’S DEEP DEVOTION TO FAITH: ‘HIS GREATEST LEGACY’ “He begged her not to leave him,” Turner wrote, noting that Cash’s health took a sudden turn for the worse following her death. Cash, confined to a wheelchair, sat by his wife’s bedside as she lay in a coma on life support, author Steve Turner wrote in the 2004 book, “The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend.” Cash talked to his wife, sang songs and read her psalms. His wife of 35 years, June Carter Cash, died four months before him following complications from heart surgery. But music fans and family members have long speculated that Cash’s actual cause of death was a broken heart. “The problems were seen as payback by some, including Kris Kristofferson, for the years of abuse that Cash had subjected his body to with drugs and alcohol at various stages throughout his life,” wrote the music site Spinditty. His health condition was made worse by years spent on the road and battling addiction. He died of complications of diabetes at Nashville Baptist Hospital, according to official records. 9, 1776, AMERICAN COLONIES NAMED ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ Cash suffered numerous health problems late in life, which by the 1990s severely limited his ability to perform live. I loved him as a singer and a writer,” Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger reportedly said shortly after Cash’s death, calling his passing “a great loss to the music community.” ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPT. “His influence spread over many generations of different people. Artists across the world mourned the loss. “Cash was an original: a rebellious, unrelentingly entertaining and imposing presence,” Rolling Stone wrote in a 2016 tribute to the performer. Johnny Cash, who rose from the Depression-Era cotton fields of rural Arkansas to leave a deep imprint on the American music scene, died on this day in history, Sept.
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