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, 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 guy. 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 ever, arguably no artist ever left a wider and deeper crater on American culture from the position of a country artist than Big John. A full transcript and sources for the story can be found below.Įpisode #2: John Prine & The Perfect Country & Western SongĮpisode #3: Charlie Rich BURNS John DenverĮpisode #4: The Mafia, and the Toby Keith & Rascal Flatts RestaurantsĮpisode #5: The Tragic Life and Death of Keith WhitleyĮpisode #6: Waylon Jennings and the Cocaine Bear Transcript.This episode will dovetail nicely with subsequent episodes that explore Johnny Cash’s prison concerts, and his history of arrests. It started out being a “supplemental” episode that was only supposed to be a few minutes long, and ended up being extended to tell the full extent of the story.
This particular episode is slightly shorter than the already-short episodes.
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