In April 2019, it was announced that the state of Arkansas would place a statue of Cash in the National Statuary Hall in an effort to represent the modern history of Arkansas. The Governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, stated that Cash's contributions to music made him an appropriate figure to tell the story of the state. [168] Portrayals When RCA Victor signed Presley, it had also bought his Sun Records masters, but when Cash departed for Columbia, Phillips retained the rights to the singer's Sun masters. Columbia eventually licensed some of these recordings for release on compilations after Cash's death.

He recorded several gospel albums and made a spoken-word recording of the entire New King James Version of the New Testament. [139] [140] Cash declared he was "the biggest sinner of them all", and viewed himself overall as a complicated and contradictory man. [141] [f] Accordingly, [g] Cash is said to have "contained multitudes", and has been deemed "the philosopher-prince of American country music." [145] [146] Cash began using amphetamines again in 1977. By 1983, he was deeply addicted again and became a patient at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage for treatment. He stayed off drugs for several years, but relapsed. By 1989, he was dependent and entered Nashville's Cumberland Heights Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center. In 1992, he started care at the Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center in Loma Linda, California, for his final rehabilitation treatment. (Several months later, his son followed him into this facility for treatment.) [65] [66] Folsom and other prison concerts Stoudt, C. (June 9, 2009). "Review: 'Ring of Fire' at La Mirada Theatre". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 20, 2010.

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Cash's next record, "Folsom Prison Blues", made the country top five. His " I Walk the Line" became number one on the country charts and entered the pop charts top 20. " Home of the Blues" followed, recorded in July 1957. That same year, Cash became the first Sun artist to release a long-playing album. Although he was Sun's most consistently selling and prolific artist at that time, Cash felt constrained by his contract with the small label. Phillips did not want Cash to record gospel and was paying him a 3% royalty rather than the standard rate of 5%. Presley had already left Sun and, Phillips was focusing most of his attention and promotion on Lewis.

Colby Itkowitz (April 17, 2019). "Johnny Cash to replace Confederate statue on Capitol Hill". The Washington Post. Edwards, Leigh H. "Cash, Johnny." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press.The main street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Highway 31E, is known as "Johnny Cash Parkway". [157] The Johnny Cash Museum, located in one of Cash's properties in Hendersonville until 2006, dubbed the House of Cash, was sold based on Cash's will. Prior to this, having been closed for a number of years, the museum had been featured in Cash's music video for "Hurt". The house subsequently burned down during the renovation by the new owner. A new museum, founded by Shannon and Bill Miller, opened April 26, 2013, in downtown Nashville. [158]

Cash was raised by his parents in the Southern Baptist denomination of Christianity. He was baptized in 1944 in the Tyronza River as a member of the Central Baptist Church of Dyess, Arkansas. [125]

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A troubled but devout Christian, [126] [127] Cash has been characterized as a "lens through which to view American contradictions and challenges." [e] [129] [130] On May 9, 1971, he answered the altar call at Evangel Temple, an Assemblies of God congregation pastored by Jimmie R. Snow, with outreach to people in the music world. [131] Allmond, Joy (September 13, 2015). "Johnny Cash's Faith and Friendship with Billy Graham". Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Rutz, Heather (June 7, 2013). "Lima native creative director at new Johnny Cash museum". The Lima News . Retrieved December 11, 2015. Johnny Cash Live Performances". Johnny Cash Infocenter. September 11, 1956. Archived from the original on February 24, 2021 . Retrieved February 5, 2020.a b Hilburn, Robert (October 12, 2013). "Johnny Cash's dark California days". LA Times . Retrieved February 20, 2018.