But the eldest child of Cash from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto left a huge impact on country music in the 80’s, and remains active today. Well, Rosanne’s stepmother June Carter may have something to say about that. Tommy’s son Mark Alan Cash is also a performer.Īside from Hank Williams Jr., there’s no other son or daughter of country music more accomplished that Rosanne Cash. A licensed real estate agent in Tennessee as well, he’s also helped manage the properties associated with the family. Though his commercial impact would slow shortly thereafter, Tommy Cash was and is a regular performer at traditional country gatherings and Johnny Cash remembrances. Tommy Cash followed this up with two more Top 10’s in “Rise and Shine” and “One Song Away,” and would land a dozen more Top 40 hits over the next four years. that put Tommy Cash on the map in his own right, earning him a #4 hit in country, and a #1 in Canada.
It was the song “Six White Horses” in 1969 written by Larry Murray about the assassinations of John F. He wasn’t too successful on the label, and eventual moved to United Artists, where he started gaining attention. before signing with Musicor Records in 1965, and started releasing singles. Tommy Cash was the youngest of the seven children of Ray and Carrie (Rivers) Cash, and similar to Johnny, his music career started while he was still serving in the military and became a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Network.Īfter leaving the military, Tommy Cash started touring around with Hank Williams Jr. With the way the legacy of Johnny Cash looms so large, you could almost forget that Johnny’s brother eight years his junior also had a pretty sizable career of his own. It’s clear to see that life in America and beyond would be compositionally different in very fundamental ways if it wasn’t for the life of Johnny Cash, and it would be fundamentally different today if he was still alive to share his calming wisdom. Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, rock or country, Gospel or Outlaw-even hip-hop legends worship at the alter of Johnny Cash.įrom participating in the legendary Million Dollar Quartet, to the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, to playing prisons and collaborating with Bob Dylan, from launching The Johnny Cash Show which in retrospect was one of the most critical melting pots in American history, Johnny Cash did it all.
But the way Johnny Cash could bring people together from across cultural divides and loom like a demigod wherever his shadow was cast is what made him so remarkable. Some love to point out that Johnny Cash wasn’t really even that country at all, but more of a rockabilly cat. There were probably more influential performers in country music for their time. Sure, there are country performers with more hit records and songs.
From being one of the primary members of the nascent explosion of popular music in America when he emerged out of Sun Studios in Memphis, to influencing a sixth decade of performers when he paired with Rick Rubin and experienced one of the most improbable late-career resurgences, arguably no artist ever left a wider and deeper crater on American culture from the position of a country artist than Johnny Cash.
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