Johnny Cash, the man in black is a country legend, he and the two Tennesseans made a name for themselves in the mid 1950's. There were original Gospil songs, but when they tried to get a record deal Gospil refused, but then they played a song written by Johnny Cash. The first hit was "Cry, Cry, Cry", other hits were "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues" and others like "Man in Black", "Hey Porter" and "Get Rhythm". Johnny Cash married his first wife Vivian Liberto in 1954 and moved to Memphis, Tennessee. His band, The Tennessee Two, consisted of Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. They were known for their sound, people say they had a "boom-chik-a-Boom" sound like a train. Johnny wore dark clothing which earned him the nickname "man in black", and began his performance with the simple entrance "Hello im Johnny Cash". {wikipedia}According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland Arkansas, although he was never given a real name, as a child he was called Jr, then when he got older people called him Johnny. When he turned five Johnny helped on his father's farm with mom, dad and older brother. Johnny had a difficult childhood, not only did his brother's early death, but his abusive father made things worse. Johnny joined the Air Force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. where he joined a band called Landsberg Barbarians. After his term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he worked as a radio salesman and studied to be a radio announcer. Cash where for a recording contract at Sun Records, where he sang mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, said "go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", the money won with Sun Records and publishing ... middle of paper ... I performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside of Bristol, Virginia. At the concert on May 21, 2003, before singing "Ring of Fire", Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written before going on stage. She talked about how her spirit was watching over him and how she had come to visit him before going on stage. He barely managed to finish the song. Despite his health problems, he talked about looking forward to the day he could walk again and throwing his wheelchair into the lake near his home. Less than four months after his wife's death, Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from diabetes. which caused him to suffer respiratory failure while he was hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was buried next to his wife in the Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. {wikipedia}