“I Walk the Line” from Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (1956) This is one of Cash’s most popular songs and was his first to hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard country charts.

Here’s a look behind the three that made it onto his albums by the late 1960s through the late ’70s. [RELATED: 10 Songs You Didn’t Know Johnny Cash Wrote for Other Artists] ...

Johnny was no one-man song factory. For Cash, a song had to mean something real to him, as a human being. All this is indicated via the following quotes from Johnny Cash himself, collated from ...

Famously, there's also a love story. Long before they were married, June Carter and Johnny Cash initially met backstage at a July 1956 Grand Ole Opry program recording at the Ryman Auditorium.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — For the third year in a row, the Johnny Cash Museum has been voted the “Best Music Museum” in the 2025 USA Today/10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards.

All this is indicated via the following quotes from Johnny Cash himself, collated from various sources over the decades of his career, that shed some light on how he penned his greatest work. 1.