Johnny Cash

28th January 1970:  American country singer Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003), wearing a blue vest and white ascot, prepares for a performance at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City.  (Photo by Santi Visalli Inc./Getty Images)

Santi Visalli Inc./Hulton Archive

Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Cash didn't sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock & roll. He created his own subgenre, falling halfway between the blunt emotional honesty of folk, the rebell... Read More