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    LIFE Johnny Cash (BAZ BIll Only): An American Legend, 15 Years Later
    LIFE Johnny Cash (BAZ BIll Only): An American Legend, 15 Years Later
    LIFE Johnny Cash (BAZ BIll Only): An American Legend, 15 Years Later
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    LIFE Johnny Cash (BAZ BIll Only): An American Legend, 15 Years Later

    By The Editors of LIFE

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    Fifteen years later, celebrate the great American music legend Johnny Cash with LIFE's special edition. Enjoy rare photograhs as well as family memories from Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781547844579
    LIFE Johnny Cash (BAZ BIll Only): An American Legend, 15 Years Later

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      Looking at Family Photos with Rosanne Cash

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      IN THE LATER 1960s, Rosanne is at the far left, along with her sisters, Kathy, Tara and Cindy. At the far right is her grandmother Carrie. This photo was snapped in an age when folks couldn’t just say, Grandma, you had your eyes closed! and then take a second picture with their phone.

      Johnny Cash’s first child, with Vivian Liberto Cash, was Rosanne, born in 1955 in Memphis, right around when Johnny was recording his first tracks there for Sun Records. Both Johnny and June Carter Cash, Rosanne’s stepmother, died in 2003, and Vivian died in 2005. Rosanne is the one still with us who was there for most all of what you will see in the pages to follow.

      For more than three and a half decades Rosanne has been in the highest echelon of American singer-songwriters, and in recent years has won acclaim for her fiction and nonfiction writing as well. On her last three terrific albums, Black Cadillac, The List and The River & the Thread—leading up to 2018’s She Remembers Everything—she has revisited her family’s legacy. Who better, then, to travel through these photographs? Rosanne lives in New York City, and on a Saturday morning in the spring of 2013, she shared her thoughts after poring over these pages.

      I looked through all of the photographs and they’re really wonderful, she begins. I thought that there were some surprising choices, things that were really unexpected. She isn’t entirely familiar with the earliest material from the collection out at Arkansas State: My grandmother and grandfather on the porch, and the photos of my dad in the Air Force: It’s really comprehensive, and I was really happy to see those included. And once he started singing professionally, the pictures of fans. One picture I really love is the one of him and Luther [Perkins] and this huge crowd of people in the background. That’s fantastic.

      Perkins was Johnny Cash’s guitarist from the very beginning—1954—until Perkins’s death in 1968; the picture Rosanne refers to was taken as stardom was first happening for her father. The photograph kindles other memories: Luther and Marshall [Grant, the bassist in the Memphis act that evolved into Johnny Cash] were always around. Marshall was always a lot closer to my family because Marshall’s wife and my mom were best friends. But Luther was always around, too, and his wife—and it was devastating for everyone when Luther died. The band was always there, they were always there. It was absolutely like family.

      Rosanne talks warmly about Marshall Grant. "I loved Marshall. I looked at [this picture] and thought about them all meeting. My dad’s brother Roy worked at the Chrysler dealership, and Luther and Marshall were mechanics, and Roy came in and said, ‘My brother’s coming back from the Air Force and he could meet you. He plays guitar.’ And my dad walks into the bay where they were working and Marshall looks up and the hair on his back stands up when he sees my dad. He knew that the rest of his life was bound up with this man."

      There are pictures of other friends and collaborators, from later in the career. Kris and Willie and Waylon, Rosanne says with a smile. "Dad was really, really close to Waylon and Kris particularly. Willie was a friend, but Waylon and Dad were always over at each other’s house. Waylon—he was a sweetheart. He had his demons, but he was a sweetheart. And Kris: They were brothers, they were soul brothers. I feel right now that Kris is the closest link I have to my dad.

      "I’d seen a lot of these photographs, but the ones that I hadn’t seen before were really moving to me. They weren’t just kind of

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