2007-09-06 09:33:59 · 14 answers · asked by Robin C 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Country
If you want a potted history of the man in black Johhny Cash go to the site shown below.
2007-09-06 13:26:57 · answer #1 · answered by Terry G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he went to jail seven times for misdemeanor offenses, but never spent more than a night in jail for any of those charges. He never spent time in prison. When he was arrested at the Mexican border for carrying drugs inside his guitar case, as depicted in the movie Walk the Line, he ended up receiving a suspended sentence because the drugs were not in fact illegal, but prescriptions.
Though he was never locked up, Johnny did have quite a keen insight into the prisoner mentality which led to a tremendous rapport with inmates everywhere. My favorite lines from his classic Folsom Prison Blues are:
"I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car. They're probably drinking coffee, and smokin' big cigars. Oh I know I had it comin'. I know I can't be free. But those people keep on movin', and that's what tortures me."
2007-09-06 09:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by antc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Folsom Prison
2016-04-03 07:20:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although Johnny Cash carefully cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence, although he landed in jail seven times for misdemeanors, each stay lasting a single night. His most serious and well-known run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by a narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas. The officers suspected that he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, but it was prescription narcotics and amphetamines that he had hidden inside his guitar case. Because they were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a suspended sentence.
He was also arrested on May 11, 1965, in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (This incident gave the spark for the song "Starkville City Jail", which he spoke about on his live At San Quentin prison album.) The mid 1960s saw Cash release a number of concept albums, including Ballads Of The True West (1965), an experimental double record mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration, and Bitter Tears (1964), with songs highlighting the plight of the Native Americans. His drug addiction was at its worst at this point, however, and his destructive behavior led to a divorce from his first wife and cancelled performances.
2007-09-06 09:46:33 · answer #4 · answered by M 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He never spent time in prison as a prisoner. He wrote Folsom Prison Blues from a movie he saw about Folsom Prison. He did play a concert for the prisoners in Folsom Prison though..
2007-09-06 10:03:03 · answer #5 · answered by Erica!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and he was a Cherokee Have ya seen the movie about him? Read any books? He got sober and wanted to help others the folsom prison thing is my all time fave.
2007-09-06 09:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
NO HE DID NOT..HE "PLAYED" FOR THE INMATES ONLY!!! AND GUESS WHO ONE OF THE INMATES WERE....MY HERO, MY IDOL..MERLE HAGGARD!!! YES HE WAS IN PRISON FOR BURGLARY AT THE TIME AND WAS IN THE AUDIENCE WHERE CASH PLAYED AND SEEING AND HEARING JOHHNY CASH HELPED MERLE MAKE UP HIS MIND TO STOP "THUGING" AND GET INTO MUSIC...TRUE STORY.
2007-09-06 10:15:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope. From what I can remember he only did small jail if that.
He's also full blood Scotts, no Indian.
2007-09-06 09:38:08 · answer #8 · answered by rdnck101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. He wasn't a native American either. They just sounded good and helped sell more records.
2007-09-06 09:40:40 · answer #9 · answered by flutterby 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I've heard that one of the reasons he was jailed was for starting a forest fire.
2007-09-06 09:50:24 · answer #10 · answered by RoVale 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋