Despite Johnny Cash's outlaw image, he never actually served a prison sentence. He only spent brief overnight stays in jail for misdemeanours.
Cash served a total of 7 nights in jail for different incidents. On one occasion, he was locked up for not having the correct prescription for his medicinal drugs. On another, for picking flowers on a private property. He was also allegedly the first person ever to be sued by the U.S. for igniting a forest fire.
The son of Southern Baptist sharecroppers, John R. Cash was born in 1932 and began playing guitar and writing songs at age 12. During high school, he performed frequently on radio station KLCN in Blytheville, Arkansas.
Cash moved to Detroit in his late teenage years and worked there until he joined the air force as a radio operator in Germany. He left the service and married Vivian Liberto in 1954; the couple settled in Memphis, where Cash worked as an appliance salesman and attended radio announcers' school. They had four daughters, the oldest being singer Rosanne Cash, who was born in 1955. See more at RollingStone.com.
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