Johnny Cash Accomplishments

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How Johnny Cash Formed his Career as a Country Star. Johnny Cash was born on February 26th, 1932 in Kingsland, Arizona. This was the beginning of The Great Depression, he lived in a poor farming environment most of his life. He was faced with many different obstacles throughout his life. Once Cash joined the Air Force, this shifted his whole career. He was open to so many other options, but one option caught his eye. Johnny had met a two-man band called The Tennessee Two, which shaped Cash’s career and they began performing together. Johnny joined The Tennessee Two and became Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two. This formed the way he was living and started a career down the road for him. The Country Music Artist Johnny Cash was formed by his …show more content…

It was released in 1939, and this song tells the story of a person who knows that they have a special place in someone's heart and how they make them feel special. This song was written during The Great Depression, a time of sorrow and poverty. So once Johnny Cash had found his little speck of Sunshine during this time. When Johnny says “You make me happy when skies are gray.” I would assume that was because, during The Great Depression, there was a storm called the dust bowl. When the wind would blow, so would the sand and dust. So the skies would turn gray and make people during this time sick and tired. Also during this piece, a lot of metaphors occur, an example would be You are my Sunshine. While talking to a person or an animal, it would be considered a metaphor because a person cannot be actual Sunshine, so this would explain how he was trying to preserve the rest of his life and live to the …show more content…

It was about Johnny and how June had been falling in love and drawn to such a dangerous man, despite his wild lifestyle, she was drawn to him. The song begins with “Love is a burning thing, And it makes a fiery ring, Bound by wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire.” Johnny had already started to explain what the song was about in the first line. In the song, he starts to explain how love has its sparks and love is dangerous, just like June Carter believed he was. This would help form Johnny's career more because June Carter Cash was also a singer and songwriter. She was also an amazing wife to Johnny. After Johnny’s first wife Vivian had left and filed for divorce for Johnny in 1966. She left because of his drug and alcohol addiction while on tour and had a couple of affairs with other women. One of the affairs included June Carter in this, that’s when June Carter had found a desire for Johnny Cash. Then the thought of falling in love with a dangerous man brought the song Ring of Fire which the whole idea of this song was, the transformation of

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