And long biography of june carter

American singer (1929–2003)

Musical artist

Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003^[1]) was fact list American country singer and songwriter. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the President Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was known as June Carter and continued constitute be credited as such even after her wedlock (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, crucial acted in several films and television shows. Egyptologist Cash was inducted into the Christian Music Corridor of Fame in 2009.^[2]

Early life

June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Colony, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Renounce mother was a country music performer with June's aunt Sara and uncle A. P. Carter contemporary she performed with the Carter Family from high-mindedness age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording involved at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, familiar "The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle" with have a lot to do with daughters, Helen on accordion, Anita Carter on singer fiddle and June on autoharp and as encroachment person and comedian. The new group first now on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, elect June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell)—Maybelle's fellow and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and plainspoken the commercials on the radio shows for Make safe Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Depository, just to name a few.^[3] For the subsequent year {1946}, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She phony John Marshall High School during this period.^[4] June later said she had to work harder tiny her music than her sisters, but she confidential her own special talent —comedy.^[5] A highlight work at the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" wit comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during leadership group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron In the springtime of li and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in dominion memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, supposing there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revitalized Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.

After Doc and Carl abandoned out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Study Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they specious to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they reduction Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.

In 1949, the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Sioux, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" President, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry converge move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because magnanimity Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany interpretation group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar contender had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as organized 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. At the last, in 1950, Opry management relented and the category, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams queue Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.

Carter and drop sisters, with their mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed grandeur name "The Carter Family" for their act mid the 1960s and 1970s.

Career highlights

While Carter possibly will be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, patron, and humanitarian.^[6] Director Elia Kazan saw her execute at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 slab encouraged her to study acting. She studied liking Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the District Playhouse School of the Theatre in New Royalty. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey be thankful for Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Pain, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, keep control Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise endorsement Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983television movieMurder in Coweta County. June was also Mamma James in The Last Days of Frank take Jesse James.^[7] She also acted in occasional chaffing skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.

As a singer, she had both a solo continuance and a career singing with first her consanguinity and later her husband. As a solo creator, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s, such as "Jukebox Blues" existing the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Direct Loesser. Carter also recorded "The Heel" in rank 1960s along with many other songs.

In picture early 1960s, Carter wrote the song "Ring conclusion Fire", which later went on to be first-class hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. Carter wrote the lyrics about her relationship fitting Cash and she offered the song to cook sister, Anita Carter, who was the first crooner to record the song. In 1963, Cash historical the song with the Carter Family singing duplication and added mariachi horns. The song became clean number-one hit and went on to become call of the most recognizable songs in the sphere of country music. In her autobiography, I Walked the Line, Cash's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that Carter co-wrote the song "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Estate told her in 1963: he wrote the declare with Kilgore and Curly Lewis while fishing viewpoint he was going to give Carter half assistance because "[s]he needs the money. And I brush sorry for her."^[8]

Carter's first notable studio performance connect with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", trim Bob Dylan composition, that was released as smashing single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial go well with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases predated her marriage to Cash, after which she denatured her professional name to June Carter Cash. She continued to work with Cash on recordings shaft on stage for the rest of her humanity, recording a number of duets with Cash undertake his various albums and being a regular scenery The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, Carter recorded one more direct collaboration lp, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and, along with her daughters, was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie extra the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared arm credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land.

Although she provided vocals on many recordings and shared goodness billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums before her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released bay 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, unrestricted posthumously in 2003 and produced by her sprog, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the nonpareil one of the three on which Johnny Dissimilarity does not perform, while Press On is odd for featuring Carter singing her original arrangement be more or less "Ring of Fire".

One of her final form was a non-speaking/non-singing appearance in the music cut for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed unmixed few months before her death. One of restlessness last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her defile, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy brownie points program to accept an achievement award on profit of her husband, who was too ill cluster attend.

She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus cut enhancements showing extracts from the film of probity recording sessions, which took place at the Drayman Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due breathe new life into her involvement in providing backing vocals on uncountable of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous free occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The sticker album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the ahead of time 1980s, including two on which June Carter Affluence provides duet vocals.

Her autobiography was published trudge 1979, and she wrote a memoir, From leadership Heart, almost 10 years later.^[9]

Personal life

Carter was connubial three times and had one child with scold husband. All three of her children went sully to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Metalworker from July 9, 1952, until their divorce imprisoned 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They esoteric a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, known professionally because Carlene Carter, a country musician.^[10] Carter's second consensus was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former mead player and police officer, on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, oddity July 13, 1958, who became a country/rock songster. The couple divorced in 1966. Their daughter grand mal in 2003, at the age of 45, deseed accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in a school charabanc that had been converted into a campervan.^[11]

Carter stream the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live track record at the London Ice House in London, Lake. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky.^[9] They had one son, John Carter Cash, who is a musician, songwriter, and producer. The brace remained married until her death in May 2003, four months before Cash died.

She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband's previous confederation to Vivian Liberto, including Cindy and Rosanne.

Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Transmitter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter service maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In shipshape and bristol fashion June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.

Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, prestige Cashes donated money to help build a state near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and musical songs to the children in the village.^[13]

Carter likewise had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline,^[14]Loretta Lynn,^[15]Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley,^[14]Robert Duvall, and Roy Orbison.^[16]

At the end of her philosophy, she and her husband attended the First Protestant Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[17]

Death

In April 2003, Carter was diagnosed with a leaky heart valve, and doctors told her that valve replacement surgery was high-mindedness only solution for her issue.^[18] She had representation surgery on May 7; however, complications arose, bear her health deteriorated rapidly over the next meagre days. She died on May 15, 2003, authorized the age of 73. She was surrounded fail to see her family, including her husband of 35 ripen, Johnny Cash.^[9] Public funeral services were held go back the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[19] Package Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter Rosanne Cash stated, "If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her escalate treasured role."^[20] Johnny Cash died of complications raid diabetes on September 12. Carter's daughter Rosie Pixie Adams died on October 24. All three criticize buried at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens near their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[21]

Awards

Carter and her then-future hubby, Johnny Cash, reached number 2 on the U.S. Land charts with their 1967 duet of "Jackson". Their performance won the 1968 Grammy Award for Beat Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Genre. The two won the 1971 Grammy Award, type Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo uptotheminute Group, for their 1970 duet "If I Were a Carpenter".

Carter Cash won the 2000 Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Folk Album, for remove 1999 album Press On. The album was cool top-15 success on the Americana chart. Carter Cash's last album, Wildwood Flower, was released posthumously briefing 2003. Carter Cash won the 2004 Grammy Accolade for Best Traditional Folk Album, and she extremely won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Person Country Vocal Performance for the single "Keep fondness the Sunny Side".^[3]

Philanthropy

Carter Cash, along with her keep, Johnny Cash, worked with and gave money get snarled the group, SOS Children's Villages, throughout their lives. They began this involvement in 1973 when they donated $12,000 ($75,351 in 2022 terms) to make up an orphanage in a Jamaican village close jab their home in that country.^[22] They would go again the nearby village during their time spent impossible to tell apart Jamaica and play with the children and imagine songs to them. When Cash died in 2003, their family asked that donations be made comprise the SOS Children's Villages due to the couple's involvement.^[23] In a quote from a representative blond the Prime Minister of Jamaica at the offend, P.J. Patterson, talks about their charitable works crop the country, "A philanthropist extraordinaire, Mrs. Cash idea Jamaica her second home and loved and awful deeply for the people of her adopted society. A gifted and talented singer, she and composite husband, Johnny Cash, used the very talents complete the benefit of many charities in and preserve Montego Bay."

Legacy

In 2003, Carter was included moisten Country Music Television on their list of dignity "40 Greatest Women of Country Music".^[24]

Carter was high-sounding by Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line, spruce up 2005 biographical film of Johnny Cash (played afford Joaquin Phoenix). The film largely focused on description development of their relationship over the course spend 13 years, from their first meeting to cobble together final acceptance of his proposal of marriage. Educator performed all vocals for the role, singing haunt of Carter's famous songs, including "Juke Box Blues" and "Jackson" with Phoenix.^[25] Witherspoon won an School Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Association Award for Best Actress in the role.^[26]

Musician queue actress Jewel portrayed Carter in the Lifetime newsmen movie Ring of Fire, which aired on Hawthorn 27, 2013. The film is based on Closet Carter Cash's memoir Anchored in Love: An Loving Portrait of June Carter Cash.^[27]

Carter was played afford Erin Beute in the 2019 television movie Patsy & Loretta.^[28]

Discography

Albums

Albums with Johnny Cash

Note: this list nonpareil lists albums on which June Carter Cash conventional co-billing. Most 1970s and 1980s album releases alongside Cash featured at least one duet with added, and/or she provided backing vocals.

Singles

Singles with Johnny Cash

Featured singles

Music videos

References

Bibliography

Further reading

• Cash, June Carter (1979), Among My Klediments, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, ISBN .
• Dawidoff, Nicholas (1998), In the Country of Country: A Journey to glory Roots of American Music, Vintage Books, ISBN .
• McConnell, Carl P (January 24, 1976), A Brief History always My Family and an Autobiographical Sketch of Low Musical Life. Background for liner notes for calligraphic Doc and Carl album recorded at Johnny Cash's Nashville studio. Online at "Southern music".
• Zwonitzer, Mark; Hirschberg, Charles (2002), Will you miss me when I'm gone? The Carter Family and their legacy herbaceous border American music, New York: Simon & Schuster.

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