5/25/2023 0 Comments Johnny and june“I can’t remember anything else we talked about, except his eyes,” she wrote in the liner notes of Cash’s 2000 box set, Love, God, Murder, of their first meeting at the Opry. “Elvis would make me go into these little cafes and listen to John when we played in the south – in the Carolinas and all down through Florida and Georgia,” Carter reportedly said of how she initially became aware of music’s Man In Black. Carter had been aware of Cash through the recommendations of Elvis Presley, with whom she had been singing backup. Johnny and June first met backstage at Nashville, Tennessee’s Grand Ole Opry in 1956, though it would be a dozen years before they would become husband and wife. They were both married when they first met But the lovebirds navigated rough waters leading up to and during their 35-year marriage which produced one son, multiple hit songs about heartache, adoration and redemption, and ended when they took their final mortal bows within four months of each other. Johnny and June Carter Cash became the torch-bearers of deep, passionate love – country-music style. Their story inspired iconic love songs and was recreated in an Oscar-nominated film.
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