I personally am not a gret fan of country music, although i like a few. I didn’t really care for Johnny Cash but I know he made a huge contribution to the growth of country music. I remember when I was really young watching his wife June Carter Cash singing with her mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter sisters. I remember my family listening to the Carters on the radio from the Grand Ole Opry. Together Johnny and June Carter Cash will be known in history as those who made country music what it is today.

I like the ole time country music, such as that shown/heard in the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou?” (2000) with George Clooney. Great stuff. And some of the more modern as well such as Johnny Cash (“I Walk the Line”), Patsy Cline (“I Fall to Pieces” and “Crazy”), and The Everly Brothers (“The Price of Love” among many others), and so so many more. And then there are the lines that I can’t forget, like Jim Reeves’s: “Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let’s pretend that we’re together all alone. I’ll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low, and you can tell your friend there with you, he’ll have to go.” (sigh) All have childhood and pre-teen memories attached. Hmmm, I haven’t listened to any of them in many years, except in memory. Well, this can’t be interesting to anyone but me, so adieu. I miss your voices, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.

It was so nice to see Johnny and June again, in a performance that was “hotter than a pepper sprout.” I was a child of rock and roll but got into their music about 15 years ago. I was actually into Roseanne Cash’s music before I appreciated Johnny’s. She, like Johnny, is classified as country but, again like her father, her music transcends genre.

I have , pretty much, quit listening to country music, the music of my roots, because the artists who are able to get the backing of corporate Nashville are those who support the governmental status quo. Besides, so much of the music they’re putting out now is absolutely vanilla pudding. John and June Carter were the epitome of country gentle people. They gave respect to all points of view and honored all people, no matter their backgrounds. In all the interviews I heard that man do over the years, I don’t think I ever heard an unkind , deragotory word come out of his mouth. He had been down, had made some really stupid decisions and , in public at least, witheld judgment of what others ‘should do’ or ‘should be’. I hope he wasn’t the last of a generation of country gentlemen, but he may well have been.

Lord—I have a CD of Johnnyand Dylan singing Girl from the North Country Fair—it’s my favorite. And the Sun records from the 50’s when I first heard him and Elvis—oh me! lovely days

I’ve always been a Johnny Cash fan but REALLY love the Johnny/June stuff. Jackson is one of my all time favorite songs. Saw them together just a few years before she died. They were just so “charming”. All those years together and the chemistry was palpable.

this fall starkville mississippi (miss state univ.) will have its second annual flower picking festival to honor johnny cash…go to pardon johnny cash dot com…rosanne cash to perform this year….johnny was arrested and put in jail for public drunk and picking flowers for june carter cash one night so the story goes….starkville is a beautiful small college town in northeast ms…its my school so fyi….thanks tommy lee brown

Johnny Cash is one of the performers that you simply miss being on the planet. Like John Lennon.

I loved Johnny Cash and June Carter. They made magic on the stage, and apparently off, too. His later music just rips into my soul—his voice so weak but his spirit still strong.

I loved the baritone of Johnny’s voice and the soul of his musical stories. I loved the look in his eye and the twist of his smile when he’d look at his wife, June. “Ring of Fire” is a favorite.