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From Arkansas to Sun Records
Johnny Cash was born J. R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, on 26 February 1932. In 1955 he signed with Sun Records, began using the name Johnny Cash and recorded “Hey, Porter” and “Cry! Cry! Cry!”, the start of a recording career that lasted almost fifty years.


The Man in Black
Known as the Man in Black for his all-black stage clothes, Cash released the live album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison in 1968, the year he married June Carter. The Johnny Cash Show ran on ABC from 1969 to 1971, and in 1980 he joined the Country Music Hall of Fame.
A museum for his collection
Late in life Cash recorded the American Recordings albums with Rick Rubin, beginning in 1994. He died in Nashville on 12 September 2003. The Johnny Cash Museum opened in May 2013, founded by Bill and Shannon Miller, friends of Cash, from their own collection.
