Johnny Cash
February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003
The Man In Black never appeared in a 50s Western, though he’s in A Gunfight (1970) and several Western TV movies. His LPs Ride The Train (1960) and Sings The Ballads Of The True West (1965) show Cash to be a real student of the Old West. These are great albums.
Speaking of–the Friends of Marty Robbins Museum is just near the Rex Allen Museum in Willcox, AZ, and they’re having a Marty Robbins thing on March 3, which I might make. If you follow the road south from Willcox on Butterfield, you’ll run near Fort Bowie and farther on, you can see Chiricahua National Monument and the Chiricahua mountains. A lot of history. Not much Johnny Cash unless you’re thinking of the song and album Mean as Hell. On the other hand, Cash’s first movie, the psycho/suspense picture Five Minutes to Live, is pre-production and being remade by Jan De Bont.