Early LifeĬash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. In later years, Cash joined the country supergroup the Highwaymen and released a series of recordings with producer Rick Rubin. He co-founded a band following his discharge, and within a few years Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two had scored hits with songs like "Walk the Line." Cash's career was nearly derailed in the 1960s by a serious substance-abuse problem, but his marriage to June Carter and acclaimed album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968) put him back on track. 12, 2003.Johnny Cash grew up in a poor farming community and joined the Air Force in 1950. Carter died on May 15, 2003, and Cash followed less than four months later, on Sept. In fact, it turned out that Cash couldn't live without his wife. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. "But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.
Maybe sometimes take each other for granted," Cash wrote. "Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. "The love that John and I share with our love for Christ is one of the most precious gifts God could have given us," June Carter said of Cash.Ĭash wrote a love letter to June in 1994, on her 65th birthday, that was named the greatest love letter of all time in 2015. But through all their ups and downs, the couple remained a source of inspiration for their steadfast love. Their son would later reveal that all was not always rosy in his parents' marriage in his own book, Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash, which detailed his father's continued infidelities in his second marriage, as well as both of his parents' addictions. They finalized their divorce by the end of 1967, and Cash wed Carter on March 1, 1968, less than two weeks after his public proposal. They had one child together, John Carter Cash, who was born in 1970. The couple continued to perform together and released several collaborative albums, including Carryin’ on With Johnny Cash and June Carter, Johnny & June and June Carter and Johnny Cash: Duets.
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