His stripped-down songs described the lives of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys, railroad workers and laborers. Born in poverty in Arkansas at the height of the Depression, he was country music's foremost poet of the working poor. Cash forged a lean, hard-bitten country-folk music that at its most powerful seemed to erase the lines between singing, storytelling and grueling life experience. Cash was one of the few performers who outlasted trends to become a mythical figure rediscovered by each new generation.īeginning in the mid-1950's, when he made his first records for the Sun label, Mr. Known as the Man in Black, both for his voice, which projected the fateful gravity of a country patriarch, and for his signature look, which suggested a cowboy undertaker, Mr. The cause was complications of diabetes, said Lou Robin, Mr. He was 71 and lived nearby in Hendersonville, Tenn.
Johnny Cash, whose gravelly bass-baritone was the vocal bedrock of American country music for more than four decades, died yesterday in Nashville.
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