Cash, who toured and recorded with the Carter Family throughout the Sixties, would later become inexorably linked to the family when he married June Carter, the second of Mother Maybelle’s three daughters. Just three miles down a narrow country road from Hiltons, in a large wooden structure known as the Carter Family Fold, Cash was introduced by one of the Fold founders, Janette Carter, the daughter of Sara and A.P., two-thirds of the original Carter Family with Maybelle Carter. The site was Hiltons, Virginia, a short distance from Bristol, the “Birthplace of Country Music,” where acts including the Carter Family made some of the very first country recordings. Yet anyone who witnessed the unrelenting sadness in that clip need only see the legend’s final live performance, which took place just two months after his beloved June’s death - and two months before his own. The 71-year-old American icon was still grieving the loss four months earlier of his wife of 35 years, June Carter Cash, when he died from complications from diabetes in the early-morning hours at Nashville’s Baptist Hospital.Ī member of the Rock & Roll, Country Music, Nashville Songwriters and Memphis Music Halls of Fame, Cash had been enjoying a resurgence in popularity after the release of “Hurt,” a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song transformed into a haunting epitaph full of regret and remorse via Cash’s unforgettable performance and his frail, gaunt appearance in the now-classic music video. Her level-headedness is precisely what Johnny needs.On September 12th, 2003, the world bid a sad farewell to the Man in Black, Johnny Cash. June is the perfect foil for the wild and tempestuous Johnny. Personality… tough, resilient, and beautiful. Johnny claims to love June more than anything, but she knows that drugs and alcohol will always be the Man in Black’s first priority. Setting him straight in a moment of exasperation, she says, “Rule number one: don’t propose to a girl on a bus, you got that? Rule number two: don’t tell her it’s because you had a bad dream.”Ĭhallenge… guiding Johnny towards sobriety. But June knows better than to get involved with the married, drug addicted Cash. Johnny Cash began to pursue June relentlessly after she and her husband, the singer Carl Smith, split up. June helped write some of Johnny Cash’s greatest hits, including the legendary tune “Ring of Fire,” a song about the troubles of falling in love. While June acknowledges Cash’s talents and charms, she becomes upset with his bad habits. Or, as she puts it, “on a tour bus with eight stinkin’ men.” June came out of semi-retirement in order to tour with the charismatic country singer, Johnny Cash.
The Carter Family used to travel all around America singing folk songs. Grew up… singing with her family in Virginia.
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