Line #6 Trivia/JohnnyCash


1	* ApprovalOfGod: [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Renzor]] was so impressed by Cash's rendition of "Hurt" that he's even admitted that it was like him losing his girlfriend to someone else, saying it wasn't his song anymore.
2	* BasedOnADream: Cash liked to claim that the trumpets in "Ring of Fire" came to him in a dream he had where he heard them play the riff. His biographers feel that the more likely inspiration was the 1961 {{Instrumental}} hit "Mexico" by Nashville session musician Bob Moore, which featured similar twin trumpets (and, coincidentally, the "boom-chicka-boom" beat). In fact, the trumpeters from "Mexico" also played on "Ring of Fire".
3	* CareerResurrection:
4	** The ''American'' albums in the 1990s brought him back into popularity, even if only in an underground kind of way.
5	** The Folsom Prison live album is credited with reviving his flagging career in the late 60s, leading to his very successful TV series.
6	* ChartDisplacement:
7	** Zig-zagged in that most of his most famous hits charted very highly on Hot Country Songs, but other iconic songs such as "Cry! Cry! Cry!" (#14), "Ragged Old Flag" (#31), "Delia's Gone" (didn't chart), and "Hurt" (#56) were much less successful.
8	** "I Still Miss Someone" was never a single (it was the BSide of "Don't Take Your Guns to Town"), but despite being widely covered and even having four charted versions by other artists (Flatt & Scruggs, Don King[[note]]not to be confused with the boxing promoter[[/note]], Emmylou Harris, and Music/MartinaMcBride), Cash's version is still seen as FirstAndForemost.
9	** Also true of June Carter Cash. Among her charted duets with Johnny, her biggest hit on the Hot 100 was ''not'' "Jackson", but rather a now-obscure cover of "If I Were a Carpenter".
10	* {{Corpsing}}:
11	** In the ''Live at Folsom Prison'' performance of "The Long Black Veil," after the line, "For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife," someone in the audience applauds, which catches him off guard.
12	** Cash intentionally uses this effect in some of his studio recordings, such as "Custer" and "Bad News".
13	* CreatorCouple: He and June Carter stayed together until death.
14	* CreatorRecovery: After the massive success of ''At Folsom Prison'' and ''At San Quentin'', the birth of his son and him finally achieving total sobriety for an extended period of time, Cash distanced himself from his darker storytelling roots and focused almost all of his efforts on religious and wholesome projects. The timing couldn't have been worse, as the {{outlaw country\|Music}} he had helped create and was now backing away from was becoming a major moment in the music scene, which led to Cash being considered a dated has-been compared to the new breed of outlaws. It wasn't until he returned to the outlaw attitude with the ''American'' albums that he found success again, which [[CreatorBreakdown coincided with the gradual deterioration of his own life]].
15	* FollowTheLeader: ''At Folsom Prison'' and Cash's other ensuing prison albums led to an odd trend of country singers recording live albums at prisons in TheSeventies. One of them (Sherwin Linton) actually called his live prison album ''Hello, I'm Not Johnny Cash''. It even jumped beyond country, with Music/BBKing's ''Live in Cook County Jail'' hitting #1 on the R&B album chart in 1971.
16	* MissingEpisode: For no apparent reason, the tracks recorded for ''Out Among the Stars'' was recorded in 1981 and 1984 and was unreleased for thirty years. It finally saw release in 2014.
17	** This isn't the only example. In 1975 Cash also recorded a complete gospel album that for some reason was left unreleased until 2012. And it nearly happened again with an early-1980s gospel album that he recorded for Columbia but was cancelled when it shut down its gospel music division; the album later saw release on the small Word label in 1986.
18	*** There are likely reasons for both sets of songs being held. According to Cash biographer Robert Hilburn, the 1981-1984 recordings were shelved because Cash no longer wanted to promote the single "Chicken in Black" (recorded at the same sessions), leading to friction with his label. The gospel recordings from 1975 were likely shelved due to the fact Cash had only recently released a successful gospel album called ''Precious Memories''.
19	* PromotedFanboy: Cash had trouble coming up with a good permanent solution after the sudden death of guitarist Luther Perkins in 1968. His old Sun Records colleague Carl Perkins (no relation to Luther), who was now part of his touring ensemble, filled in as needed, but he had his own guitar style and his own career to tend to. Then at a show in Arkansas, a young local guitarist named Bob Wootton begged Cash to let him sit in on a few songs. When he did, Cash was astonished to hear that Wootton, who'd idolized Cash from the beginning of his career, had memorized all of Luther's licks. Shortly afterwards, Cash invited Wootton to join his band, and he was Cash's lead guitarist all the way up to ''American Recordings''.
20	* TechnologyMarchesOn: The narrator's plan to build himself a Cadillac in "One Piece at a Time" gets derailed because he doesn't take this trope into account. He steals the car parts used to build it over the course of 20 years, meaning the end result is an unholy chimera of a car.
21	* ThrowItIn: The Folsom Prison show included some unexpected reactions from the audience. In particular, Cash is momentarily thrown by applause breaking out during an inappropriate moment of his dramatic "The Long Black Veil". Rather than cut the song or re-record it, this version remained on the final album and even turns up in deference to the cleaner studio version from 1964 on some greatest hits collections. (However a similar reaction to "Dark as the Dungeon", which forced Cash to stop the song and admonish the audience, resulted in it being cut from the album until a "complete show" expanded edition was released in the 2000s.)
22	** According to Cash and numerous biographers, "A Boy Named Sue" was a spontaneous addition to the San Quentin show, with the band improvising the backing as Cash read the lyrics. It worked so well, it was kept and became the show's signature song, even though the plan was for the song "San Quentin" to be so.
23	** Speaking of "San Quentin", Cash performed the song twice during the 1969 prison concert due to audience demand (and his producer wanting a second "take" for single release). Audience reaction to both was so strong producer Bob Johnston chose to include both performances on the album.
24	** ''The Johnny Cash Show'' appeared to have a "no edit" rule, as bloopers, mistakes, even Cash coughing between lines of a song (something he actually did surprisingly often; he can be heard doing this a lot on the ''Folsom Prison'' album) were kept in, rather than the director calling cut and starting over again. A very funny example occurred when Music/WaylonJennings appeared in 1970 and one of his musicians messed up his vocals during a song, causing the band to stop momentarily and laugh before continuing. The boo-boo was kept intact for broadcast.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
26	** Cash recorded the Don Schlitz song "The Gambler" shortly after Music/KennyRogers recorded his version. His associates thought it had big hit potential and urged him to release it as a single before Rogers did, but Cash didn't care for the song and declined, which allowed Rogers to get the hit first while Cash's version was left hidden away on the album ''Gone Girl''.
27	** In 2014, Columbia released ''Out Among the Stars'', an album that was recorded almost in its entirely in the early 1980s but inexplicably never released. At the time of recording, Cash was in the midst of an extended dry period in terms of critical acclaim and hit records, which would pretty much result in his leaving Columbia in 1986. Critics have noted that the long-unreleased recordings could have provided Cash with a much-needed hit had they been released 30 years earlier. (Indeed, it appears Cash was lining up at least one of the songs for a single, the excellent duet with June Carter Cash titled "Baby Ride Easy" which they even performed on the 1984 Johnny Cash Christmas Special. Anyone wanting to buy that record would have to wait nearly three decades.
28	** In 1963, Cash was booked to play Carnegie Hall, becoming one of the first major country acts to perform there. To mark the occasion, Columbia Records planned to record the concert for album release similar to how Music/HarryBelafonte found huge success with his Carnegie Hall concert albums. Unfortunately, Cash was in such bad shape due to his drug intake as well as the onset of stage fright, as well as a stated intent to do few if any of his own songs, that the concert was a disaster and any plans to release a live album at that time were scrapped. It would take another 5 years before Cash got a proper live album recorded, his iconic ''At Folsom Prison''.
29	** He was nearly killed decades ago by a pet ostrich when, after becoming violent with it, the ostrich responded with the claws on its feet. The only reason he survived? His belt buckle caught the claw, preventing him from being ripped open. Why yes, this did happen during his drug abuse period.
30	** Invoked by the man himself, who during the recording and release of the first ''American'' album expressed regret that he had spent the last 15-20 years doing what the label wanted and cranking out increasingly formulaic Nashville-style material rather than doing what ''he'' wanted, which is to record just himself and his guitar. Consider that he only got to do what he wanted in the last ten years of his life and imagine what he could have accomplished had he been able to spend ''25 years'' working that way.
31	** "Til Kingdom Come" by {{Music/Coldplay}} was supposed to be a collaboration with Cash, but he passed away before he could record his part.
32	** He wrote a version of [[https://youtu.be/Tx-x-sGk9oI Thunderball]] for the James Bond film of the same in 1965, but the producers didn't use and it wasn't released until 1995

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