For over 40 years Johnny Cash wrote and sang about the lives of hard-scrabble farmers, homeless drifters, broken-down cowhands, broken-hearted lovers and men behind bars. He gave a voice to the lonesome and the lost, the dispossessed and the disillusioned. He came by this sympathy naturally, growing up on his family's cotton farm in rural Arkansas in the depths of the Depression. America first discovered Johnny Cash in the mid-1950s, and since then people around the world have heard in his voice an unmistakable honesty about the hard facts of life, love and faith.
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In this video podcast, recorded at the 1993 Academy of Achievement Summit at the Glacier Park Lodge at majestic Glacier Park in Montana, Cash spoke to student delegates about his early life growing up and working on a cotton patch. At the end of the podcast, Cash asnwered a question from one of...
Published 06/24/93
In this audio podcast, recorded at the 1993 Academy of Achievement Summit at the Glacier Park Lodge at majestic Glacier Park in Montana, Cash spoke to student delegates about his early life growing up and working on a cotton patch. At the end of the podcast, Cash asnwered a question from one of...
Published 06/24/93
This video podcast is an excerpt from the 1988 Academy of Achievement Summit. Cash dedicated his performance to close friend Louis L'Amour, a best-selling western author and member of the Academy, who died just prior to the event.
Published 07/02/88