Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. He made his first single, "Hey Porter", for Sun Records in 1955. In 1958 he moved to Columbia Records. He had long periods of drug abuse during the 1960s, but later that decade he successfully fought his addiction with the help of singer June Carter Cash...See full bio »
2006Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash: The Road Show
(video documentary)
(writer: "Give My Love To Rose", "Five Feet High & Rising", "Big River", "Pickin' Time" / performer: "Give My Love To Rose", "Five Feet High & Rising", "Big River", "Pickin' Time")
2005Walk the Line
(writer: "Folsom Prison Blues", "You're My Baby", "Get Rhythm", "Rock 'N Roll Ruby", "Home of the Blues", "Hey Porter", "I Walk the Line", "I Got Stripes", "I'm Goin' to Jackson" / as John R. Cash / performer: "Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man")
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2005)
(writer: "I Walk The Line" / as John R. Cash / performer: "I Walk The Line", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry")
2003The Hunted
(writer: "The Man Comes Around" / performer: "Highway 61 Revisited", "The Man Comes Around")
2001Frailty
(writer: "There Will Be Peace In The Valley For Me" / performer: "There Will Be Peace In The Valley For Me" / arranger: "There Will Be Peace In The Valley For Me" / as John R. Cash)
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Who Turned out the Lights?
(1995)
(writer: "Folsom Prison Blues" - uncredited, "I Walk the Line" - uncredited / performer: "Folsom Prison Blues" - uncredited, "I Walk the Line" - uncredited, "Jackson" - uncredited)
1985The Winning Hand
(TV movie)
(performer: "They Killed Him", "They're All The Same", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Don't Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Does")
1985Raamit ränniin
(TV movie)
(performer: "I Walk the Line")
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Swan Song
(1974)
(performer: "I Saw the Light" - uncredited)
1973Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus
(writer: "He turned the water into wine", "I see men as trees walking" / performer: "Gospel road", "He turned the water into wine", "I see men as trees walking", "Jesus was a carpenter", "Children", "Last supper", "Burden of freedom")
1971A Gunfight
(writer: "A Gunfight" / performer: "A Gunfight")
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Episode #2.26
(1971)
(writer: "I Walk the Line" / performer: "Jackson", "I Walk the Line", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Darlin' Companion", "If I Were a Carpenter")
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Episode #2.24
(1971)
(writer: "Folsom Prison Blues" / performer: "Folsom Prison Blues", "If Not for Love I Could be One of These", "June Makes the Flowers Grow", "Belshazah")
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Episode #2.23
(1971)
(performer: "Ballad of John Henry", "These Men with Broken Hearts", "It Ain't Me Babe", "I'll Fly Away')
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Episode #2.22
(1971)
(performer: "The Very Biggest Circus of Them All", "Old Shep", "Big Rock Candy Mountain", "Boa Constrictor", "Jesus Loves Me", "I'll Fly Away")
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Episode #2.21
(1971)
(performer: "The Preacher Said", "The Nazarene", "Water into Wine", "The Wailing Wall", "Old-Time Religon", "When the Saints Go Marching In")
1971Johnny Cash i København
(TV special documentary)
(writer: "Folsom Prison Blues", "Man In Black", "No Need To Worry" / performer: "A Boy Named Sue", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Because You're Mine", "Me And Bobby McGee", "Guess Things Happen That Way", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Darlin' Companion", "If I Were A Carpenter", "Help Me Make It Through The Night", "Man In Black", "A Song To Mama" presented as "Dear Mama", "No Need To Worry", "Rock Of Ages", "Children Go Where I Send Thee")
1970Little Fauss and Big Halsy
(writer: "Rollin' Free" / performer: "Rollin' Free", "Wanted Man", "Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsy")
1969Johnny Cash in San Quentin
(TV documentary)
(writer: "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "San Quentin" / performer: "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Orange Blossom Special", "Jackson", "Darlin' Companion", "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", "San Quentin", "Wanted Man", "A Boy Named Sue", "Peace in the Valley", "He Turned the Water into Wine")
1967The Road to Nashville
(writer: "I walk the line" / performer: "Were You there", "The one on the right is on the left")
1962The Night Rider
(TV short)
(writer: "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" - uncredited / performer: "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" - uncredited, "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" - uncredited)
I kept thinking I could have been down there listening with the prisoners. Only been in jail twice, and just overnight, but you don't need much to see what it's like. Both times it was for pills, dexedrine. Second time I woke up in a Georgia jail not knowing how I got there. Could've ended up on a chain gang, but the jailer was a fan of mine and he let me go.
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Trivia:
In the 1970s he tried to help his close friend, legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland, restart his career by bringing him into the studio to record.
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