List of awards received by Johnny Cash

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This is a list of major awards won by Johnny Cash .

Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter and actor

Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

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Academy of Country Music

The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of the genre's biggest artists, that pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Between 1985 and 1995, the group recorded three major label albums as The Highwaymen: two on Columbia Records and one for Liberty Records. Their Columbia works produced three chart singles, including the number one "Highwayman" in 1985.

"Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. The song was influenced by the real-life hanged highwayman Jonathan Wild. The dam builder verse alludes to the deaths of over one hundred men during the construction of Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada. Webb first recorded the song on his album El Mirage, released in May 1977. The following year, Glen Campbell recorded his version, which was released on his 1979 album Highwayman. In 1985, the song became the inspiration for the naming of the supergroup The Highwaymen, which featured Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Their first album, Highwayman, became a number one platinum-selling album, and their version of the song went to number one on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart in a twenty-week run. Their version earned Webb a Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1986. The song has since been recorded by other artists. Webb himself included a different version on his 1996 album Ten Easy Pieces, a live version on his 2007 album Live and at Large, and a duet version with Mark Knopfler on 2010 album Just Across the River.

Academy of Achievement

American Music Awards

Americana Music Association

<i>American IV: The Man Comes Around</i> Album by Johnny Cash

American IV: The Man Comes Around is a studio album by Johnny Cash. It was released on November 5, 2002, by American Recordings and Universal Records. It is the fourth in Cash's "American" series of albums, and the last album released during his lifetime. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song) song by the Nine Inch Nails, written by Trent Reznor

"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by band leader Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995 as a promotional single from the album. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996, but ultimately lost to Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know".

Country Music Association

<i>At Folsom Prison</i> 1968 live album by Johnny Cash

At Folsom Prison is a live album and 27th overall album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. After his 1955 song "Folsom Prison Blues", Cash had been interested in recording a performance at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash's material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed with June Carter, Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in California on January 13, 1968. The resulting album consisted of fifteen tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

<i>At San Quentin</i> 1969 live album by Johnny Cash

At San Quentin is the 31st overall album by Johnny Cash, recorded live at San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969 and released on June 4 of that same year. The concert was filmed by Granada Television, produced and directed by Michael Darlow. The album was the second in Cash's conceptual series of live prison albums that also included At Folsom Prison (1968), På Österåker (1973), and A Concert Behind Prison Walls (1976).

A Boy Named Sue poem by Shel Silverstein that has been made popular by Johnny Cash

"A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by humorist and poet Shel Silverstein and made popular by Johnny Cash. Cash recorded the song live in concert on February 24, 1969 at California's San Quentin State Prison for his At San Quentin album. Cash also performed the song in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden. The live San Quentin version of the song became Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his only top ten single there, spending three weeks at No. 2 in 1969, held out of the top spot by "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones. The track also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts that same year and was certified Gold on August 14, 1969, by the RIAA.

Grammy Awards

June Carter Cash American singer, songwriter and actress

June Carter Cash was a five time Grammy award winning American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, comedian, and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage.

The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976, a separate award was presented for Best Album Notes – Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award recognizes albums with excellent liner notes. It is presented to the liner notes author or authors, not to the artists or performers on the winning work, except if the artist is also the liner notes author.

The Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance was awarded between 1965 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:

Hall of Fame

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum

Gospel Music Hall of Fame

Memphis Music Hall of Fame

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

Rockabilly Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Other awards

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Horatio Alger Award

Kennedy Center Honors

MTV Video Music Awards

National Medal of Arts

NME

Nominations

Academy of Country Music [3]

Country Music Association Awards [4]

Grammy Awards [5] [6] [7]

MTV Video Music Awards

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Kris Kristofferson American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and film actor

Kristoffer Kristofferson is an American actor and singer-songwriter. Among his songwriting credits are the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists. Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the Outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music machine in favor of independent songwriting and producing. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his starring roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Heaven's Gate, Blade and A Star Is Born, the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

The 37th Annual Grammy Awards were presented on March 1, 1995, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Bruce Springsteen was the night's biggest winner with 4 awards, including Song of the Year while opening the show with his Grammy nominated hit.

The 28th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25, 1986, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year, 1985.

The 11th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 12, 1969. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1968.

Folsom Prison Blues Song by Johnny Cash

"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career. It was one of Cash's signature songs. It was the eleventh track on his debut album With His Hot and Blue Guitar and it was also included on All Aboard the Blue Train. A live version, recorded among inmates at Folsom State Prison itself, became a #1 hit on the country music charts in 1968. In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 51 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time.

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1985.

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1970.

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1968.

References

  1. ↑ "Hall of Fame Inductees - Johnny Cash". Cheyenne Frontier Days. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ "1977 Horatio Alger Award Winner: Johnny Cash". Horatio Alger Association. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ https://www.acmcountry.com/winners
  4. ↑ http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-awards/nominees/past-winners/?appSession=136139520835527
  5. ↑ http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1970-219.html
  6. ↑ http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1971-220.html
  7. ↑ http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1973-222.html
  8. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1990/grammys.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1991/grammys.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1995/grammys.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/grammys.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2002/grammys.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2003/grammys.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2004/grammys.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2005/grammys.htm
  16. ↑ http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2005/grammys.htm
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