Johnny Cash Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
28th May 2014
Fact: Jack White has a disco ball once owned by country legend Johnny Cash hanging in his recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The rocker says, "It was just sitting crammed into a storage unit... gathering dust."
9th May 2013
Fact: Johnny Cash's singer daughter Rosanne is set to be honoured as New York public radio Wfuv's Artist of the Year. The country star will receive the accolade at a prizegiving gala on Thursday night (09May13) at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan.
29th November 2012
Fact: Country acts Dierks Bentley and The Band Perry are teaming up for next week's (beg03Dec12) Grammy Nominations Concert in Nashville, Tennessee as part of a tribute to music legend Johnny Cash. The Who and Hunter Hayes will join previously announced performers Luke Bryan, fun., Maroon 5 and Ne-Yo at the big gig, which will be co-hosted by LL Cool J and Taylor Swift
1st October 2012
Fact: Rocker Trace Cyrus has added to his growing tattoo collection by having a picture of Johnny Cash inked on his leg. Miley Cyrus' half-brother also recently had a large portrait of Willie Nelson etched on his leg.
28th February 2012
Fact: Kenny Chesney, Kris Kristofferson and Chris Cornell are among the stars who will perform at a tribute concert to mark late country icon Johnny Cash's 80th birthday in April (12). Lucinda Williams, Ray LaMontagne and Lucinda Williams have also joined the star-studded line-up for We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash on 20 April (12) in Austin, Texas.
31st August 2011
Fact: Country star Glen Campbell's lifestory is about to be turned into a new movie by the man who produced Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. Moviemaker James Keach has just signed on to develop a film based on the Wichita Lineman singer's amazing story from talented studio guitarist and part-time Beach Boys star, through his heyday as a music and TV superstar, to his drink and drug woes and his current battle with Alzheimer's Disease.
28th October 2010
Quote: "When he met Johnny Cash and (he did) on many occasions, he was just obsessed with him. (Now) he is writing the most amazing music. I feel that angels are among us. Something extraordinary is happening to this kid." Actress Jane Seymour is convinced her 14-year-old son Johnny is being watched over by his godfather, JOHNNY CASH.
7th September 2010
Fact: A Folgers coffee commercial radio jingle country legend Johnny Cash recorded in 1994, called Waking Up at Home, is now available as a ringtone.
14th June 2010
Quote: "Who better to sing that song? He got one of the words wrong, though. He changed 'stream' to 'sheen'. But I wasn't gonna call him up and say, 'Hey, Johnny, you've got to re-record it.'" Sting on Johnny Cash's rendition of his I HUNG MY HEAD.
26th February 2010
Fact: Late rocker Johnny Cash's track GUESS THINGS HAPPEN THAT WAY has become the 10 billionth song downloaded on Apple's iTunes music program. The download giant announced earlier this year (10) that the customer who bought the milestone tune would be handed a $10,000 (£6,250) iTunes gift card. The lucky winner was named as 71-year-old Georgia resident Louie Sulcer.
22nd February 2010
Quote: "He didn't feel he could be honest singing things like, 'Imagine there's no heaven'." Producer Rick Rubin admits Johnny Cash felt uncomfortable tempting fate while recording his final album tracks before he died.
6th February 2010
Fact: Fans of late country icon Johnny Cash have launched a Facebook appeal urging their peers to wear all black to honour the 'Man In Black' on what would have been his 78th birthday on 26 February (10).
3rd September 2009
Fact: The music of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and CARL PERKINS is heading to Broadway. A new show, titled Million Dollar Quartet, is set to hit New York City in the spring (10). The stage spectacular is inspired by a 1956 jam session between the four legendary musicians and will feature classic hits like Presley's Blue Suede Shoes and Cash's I Walk The Line.
17th August 2009
Quote: "I'm horrifying all my chic London friends. I was utterly fascinated and I came to love hillbilly music - beat that for uncool. But the only country singer I'm allowed to listen to is Johnny Cash. Apparently he's OK." Hugh Grant became obsessed with country and western music while shooting new movie DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? in New Mexico.
24th May 2009
Quote: "I do miss him. But I started to miss him about 10 years before he kicked the bucket." Bob Dylan remembers late country singer Johnny Cash.
7th April 2009
Fact: ROSEANNE CASH is recording a covers album culled from her late father Johnny Cash's favourite country tunes. The Ring of Fire hitmaker gave his daughter a list of 100 classic songs he loved when she turned 18 - and urged her to listen to them all before she died. Her favourites from the list will be recorded on The List.
10th February 2009
Quote: "I'm not going with a look. Part of it is in some ways, it's very hard, especially when you're talking about music, to get away from Johnny Cash. In some ways, I'm aware that I need to kind of, I need to alter that persona. I need to alter my public persona in some ways so that people are going to be open to receiving me for what it is that I'm doing now..." Joaquin Phoenix is growing his beard to distance himself from his role as the late country legend in Oscar-winning film Walk the Line as he embarks on a rap career.
25th September 2008
Fact: A previously unseen recording of Johnny Cash will be made available as part of a new documentary examining Cash's views on America. The singer personifies the country with references to important events and people in American history in I Am The Nation, which will be released as part of Johnny Cash's America, slated to be aired on 23 October (08) on the Biography Channel.
29th July 2008
Quote: "We would call it, JONAS BROTHERS PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MAN IN BLACK." Nick Jonas is planning an album of Johnny Cash covers.
4th March 2008
Fact: British singer Natasha Bedingfield is set to make a guest appearance on legendry American TV show Sesame Street. The star has a walk-on part on the show - joining the likes of Johnny Cash and Whoopi Goldberg who have also mingled with the muppets.
28th February 2008
Fact: Johnny Cash's daughter ROSANNE will perform her first concert since undergoing brain surgery in November (07) when she takes to the stage at the Performing Arts Center in Tampa Bay, Florida on Saturday (01Mar08).
19th January 2008
Quote: "Take Johnny Cash's last CD, I couldn't even play it. He just sounded so frail... If I was ever down, tough, I'd put on Leonard Cohen. Then you know you aren't that down." Former BEATLE Ringo Starr found Cash's AMERICAN V: A HUNDRED HIGHWAYS a difficult listen.
15th June 2007
Fact: Country singer Billy Joe Shaver's new album, EVERYBODY'S BROTHER, will feature a duet he recorded with Johnny Cash, YOU JUST CAN'T BEAT JESUS CHRIST, before the music legend died.
15th November 2006
Quote: "(He) somehow gets some rebel chic by playing in a prison and saying the guards are the bad guys. Hang about, you've got f**king mass murderers and paedophiles in there." Manic Street Preachers star Nicky Wire can't understand Johnny Cash's reputation.
18th October 2006
Fact: Evanescence star Amy Lee bought the ankle-length black coat she wears in her new video tribute to Johnny Cash from movie maker TIM BURTON.
15th June 2006
Fact: Grizzled country greats Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings are to be honoured on Los Angeles' Rock Walk next month (JUL06). The two singer/songwriters will place their handprints into the cement on Sunset Boulevard, where peers like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley have left their mark.
7th March 2006
Fact: Late country legend Johnny Cash once provided the voice for a coyote on The Simpsons.
27th January 2006
Quote: <p>"It was painful for us, as his children, to watch. Two of my sisters chose not to see it. I mean, who wants to see a Hollywood rehashing of their childhood?" Rosanne Cash on watching her father Johnny Cash's biopic Walk the Line. </p>
5th December 2005
Quote: <p>"I got to see all her instruments and clothes. She had, like, six closets full of fur coats. I'll never forget." Reese Witherspoon was thrilled to be shown around the late JUNE CARTER CASH's home by her children as she prepared to play the country great in new Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. </p>
22nd November 2005
Quote: <p>"I didn't play a lick, so I immediately bought one and got a friend over that day and got down a D chord, G chord, and E minor for REM's EVERYBODY HURTS - that was the first song I learned." Joaquin Phoenix, who studied the guitar three hours a day for three months to master the instrument for his role as Johnny Cash in biopic Walk the Line. </p>
22nd November 2005
Quote: <p>"I didn't play a lick, so I immediately bought one and got a friend over that day and got down a D chord, G chord, and E minor for REM's EVERYBODY HURTS - that was the first song I learned." Joaquin Phoenix, who studied the guitar three hours a day for three months to master the instrument for his role as Johnny Cash in biopic Walk the Line. </p>
8th October 2005
Quote: <p>"I begged every day... I called my attorney, my agent, my manager. I said, `Are you serious about this? I've got to get out of this. Can't they call LEANN RIMES - she's good.'" Reese Witherspoon was desperate to get out of playing JUNE CARTER CASH in Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line once she discovered she'd have to sing in the film. </p>
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