June Carter Cash

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June Carter Carter (born Valerie June Carter, 1929-1990) was a Grammy Award-winning American singer, singer, actress, comedian, and writer who was also a wife of singer Johnny Cash.

She was professionally known as June Carter prior to her marriage to Cash and was often credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She performed on guitar, banjo, harmonie, and autoharp, as well as appearing in a variety of films and television shows.

Carter Cash received five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

In 2003, she ranked 31 in CMT's Top Women in Country Music.

Early life

June Carter Cash was born in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle Carter (nee Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers, and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of ten in 1939. Maybelle Carter, with help from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters Helen, Anita, and June in March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT deal. On June 1, the new group first appeared on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) — Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys," joined them in late 1945. To name a few, June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and appeared on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, to name a few. The Carters and Doc and Carl did not have dates for the next year, from Richmond, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. During this time, she attended John Marshall High School. She had to work harder at her music than her sisters in June, but she had her own special talent, comeback. A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. June Carter played a comedic foil during the group's appearances alongside fellow Opry actors Faron Young and Webb Pierce, due to her thin and lanky frame. In his memoirs, Carl McConnell said that June was "a natural-born clown," if there ever was one. Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.

Maybelle and her children migrated to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station after Doc and Carl stepped out of the music industry in late 1946. They went to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.

Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, as well as Atkins' lead guitarist, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and appeared at KWTO regularly. Maybelle's husband and group manager, Ezra "Eck" Carter, turned down multiple bids from the Grand Ole Opry to relocate the show to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not allow Atkins to join the troupe onstage. Atkins' fame as a guitarist had grown, and studio musicians were concerned that if he came to Nashville, he'd displace them as a 'first-call' player. Finally, in 1950, Opry leadership relented, and the company, as well as Atkins, became part of the Opry corporation. Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June Cash.

"The Carter Family" in June and her siblings, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara returning from time to time, regained the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and 1970s.

Personal life

Carter was married three times and had one child with each spouse. Both three of her children went on to have lucrative careers in country music. Carl Smith, a country singer, was married first to her grandmother from July 9, 1952, before her divorce in 1956. They wrote "Time's A-Wastin" together. Rebecca Carlene Smith, a country singer, was their daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer, married Janet Nix on June 11, 1957, marking June's second marriage. Rosie Nix Adams, the couple's daughter, was born on July 13, 1958. In 1966, the couple wed together. Rosie was a country/rock singer. Rosie, 45, died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning on October 24, 2003. Jimmy Campbell, a Bluegrass musician, was riding a school bus that had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were used to heat the bus.

Carter and the entire Carter family have performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. During a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario, Cash suggested Carter to Carter in 1968. They married in Franklin, Kentucky, on March 1 and remained married until her death in May 2003, only four months before Cash died. John Carter Cash, the couple's son, is a singer, songwriter, and producer. In addition, she gained four stepdaughters from her husband's previous marriage to Vivian Liberto, including Cindy and Rosanne.

Carter's distant cousin, the 39th president of the United States, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. Jimmy Carter said in a June Carter address that he was his distant cousin.

Carter has long been a member of SOS Children's Villages. The Cashes donated funds in 1974 to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, where they visited often, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children.

June Carter Cash had close friendships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall, and Roy Orbison.

Carter died in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, after suffering from heart-valve replacement surgery, surrounded by her family, including her husband of 35 years, Johnny Cash. Rosanne Cash, Carter's stepdaughter, said, "If being a wife was a corporation, June would have been a CEO." It was her most coveted position." Johnny Cash died four months after Carter's death, and Rosie Nix Adams, Carter's daughter, died a month after that. The three children are buried in Hendersonville, Tennessee, at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens.

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Career highlights

Although June Carter Cash was best known for singing and songwriting, she was also a poet, singer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Elia Kazan, the Grand Ole Opry's 1955, told her she was to study acting. At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, she worked with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner. Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 film The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957 were among her acting roles. Mayhayley Lancaster appeared in the 1983 television film Murder in Coweta County, alongside husband Cash. In The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James' June, there was also Momma James. She has appeared in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV shows.

She had both a solo career and a career as a performer, as well as her husband. She became a natural performer on upbeat country tunes of the 1950s, such as "Jukebox Blues" and "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. In the 1960s, June and other songs "The Heel" were also recorded.

June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire" in the early 1960s, which later became a hit for her future husband Johnny Cash. Merle Kilgore, a fellow songwriter, co-wrote the song. June wrote the lyrics about her friendship with Johnny Cash, and she performed the album to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first female artist to record the song. Johnny introduced mariachi horns to the song in 1963 with the Carter Family as a backup, as well as a few others. The album debuted as a number one hit and went on to become one of country music's most popular songs. Vivian Cash, Johnny's first wife, disputes the belief that June Carter co-wrote "Ring of Fire" in her autobiography. Vivian related the tale that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly when fishing, and that he would honor the June half because "She needs the money." And I like her."

Johnny Cash's first notable studio appearance came in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe," a Bob Dylan song that was released as a solo and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. The two artists had more success with their recording of "Jackson" in 1967, which was followed by a collection of Johnny Cash and June Carter. Both these publications predated her marriage to Cash (upon which case she changed her name to June Carter Cash), but it did not happen. She continued to perform on record and on stage for the remainder of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for her various albums, as well as being a regular on Cash's annual Christmas specials. Carryin' On, Carter Cash and His Girlfriend is her first direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Girl, and she and her daughter, Vanessa Carter, were a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. Return to the Promised Land, she also gave sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel album, Return to the Promised Land.

Although June Carter Cash performed vocals on several albums and posted the bill with Cash on several album launches, she only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: Appalachian Pride, published in 1975, and Wildwood Flower, produced by her son, John Carter Cash, appeared on television. Johnny Cash is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not appear, while Press On is a newspaper that includes June Carter Cash's original version of "Ring of Fire."

One of her last appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsing appearance in her husband's 2003 single "Hurt," which was shot a few months before her death. On April 7, 2003, just over a month before she was scheduled to attend an achievement award on behalf of her husband, but she was too ill to attend.

Press On, she received a Grammy award in 1999. Wildwood Flower, her last album, has won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showcasing extracts from the film's recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, between September 18-20, 2002. "Big Yellow Peaches," "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea," "Temptation," and the "Wildwood Flower" are among the album's highlights. A further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name, due to her role in providing support vocals on several of her husband's albums. The album features previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.

Her autobiography was published in 1979, and she wrote From the Heart, almost ten years later.

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