“I can’t remember anything else we talked about, except his eyes,” she wrote. | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesĬarter later described first meeting Cash in the liner notes of Love, God, Murder, Cash’s box set released in 2000. Cash introduced himself to his future wife by saying, “I’ve always wanted to meet you,” to which Carter replied, “I feel like I know you already.” Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash pose for a portrait at an event in September 1969 in California. Carter had reportedly become a fan of Cash’s music while on tour with Presley and Cash grew up listening to Carter on the radio as part of Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters. Backstage Cash met Carter, who at the time was married to country singer, Carl Smith. The date served as a landmark moment for Cash in both his personal and professional careers. His song, “I Walk the Line,” had been released two months before his Opry performance. On July 7, 1956, Cash met his future wife at the Grand Ole Opry, where he performed at the venue for the first time. While Cash partly intended “I Walk the Line” to serve as a reminder to him to be faithful to his wife on tour, the real temptation came later when he met June Carter. But he said, `Let’s give it a chance.’ And it was just a few days until–that’s all it took to take off,” he added. And I called Sam Phillips and I asked him please not to send out any more records of that song. And I heard it on the radio, and I really didn’t like it. “Bare and stark that song was when it was released. And with a bass and a lead guitar, there it was,” Cash said. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that–(makes guitar noises)–sound. “Well, Sam wanted it up–you know, up-tempo. Sam Phillips of Sun Records reportedly didn’t want any gospel songs but Cash used the story of staying faithful to wife on tour as a way to get the gospel song green-lighted by Phillips.Ĭash ‘really didn’t like’ the song upon releaseĬash once recalled why he didn’t like “I Walk the Line” in the beginning, according to NPR. “I Walk the Line” wasn’t just a story about fidelity for Cash. This film is not as extreme as "Deliverance" but if you drive along Route 26 through North Carolina and Tennessee mountains, you will still see people living without heat, with plastic on their windows to keep out the cold.Johnny Cash singing ‘I Walk the Line’ in 1958. You will enjoy the cinematography, and a depiction of American life which does still exist. ![]() ![]() Gregory Peck's performance is excellent, though his involvement with a penniless moonshiner's daughter is a bit hard to swallow. Some of the dialog and themes explored in this movie are interesting, and if one has ever traveled to this part of the country, there are still small towns a bit similar to this, even though they may now have a Wal-Mart 100 miles away. There is also a part with Charles Durning, as a racist small- minded police officer, who feels his job is to run everyone out of town who is not a "good church-going man". Estelle Parsons is the long-suffering wife, and Tuesday Weld the femme fatal. He has a mid-life crisis(before it was fashionable to call it that). The subject of small town boredom and emotional unrest Gregory Peck portrays the sheriff in a small rural Tennessee town.
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