How did Johnny Cash become hip?

Become hip? A summary of Johnny Cash's moments of coolness reads like a set of Chuck Norris gags (except they are all true):. Johnny Cash picked his own name (not a stage name, the one on his US Air Force enlistment papers). read more

A summary of Johnny Cash's moments of coolness reads like a set of Chuck Norris gags (except they are all true): Johnny Cash picked his own name (not a stage name, the one on his US Air Force enlistment papers). Johnny Cash rubbed elbows with, and survived, Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins, the men who jointly defined Rock and Roll. read more

Though Cash's marriage to June Carter was cast in later years as one for the ages, when they began their affair (while Cash was still married to Vivian), some friends saw June as a manipulator:"an early country equivalent of Yoko Ono in John Lennon's world," as Hilburn writes. read more

When people reject hip-hop, I think of the interesting juxtaposition between artists like 50 Cent and Johnny Cash. Black artists are denounced for talking about guns, while Johnny Cash is a hero for singing about shooting a man"just to watch him die". Discarded black history. This is the importance of history to our words. read more