Johnny Cash’s 90th Birthday Honored With New Tennessee Pathways Marker

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John Carter Cash and Tennessee Department of Tourist Development’s Commissioner Mark Ezell. Photo: Rick Murray

Johnny Cash was honored on Feb. 26 with the unveiling of his new Tennessee Music Pathways marker on what would have been the singer’s 90th birthday.

Representatives, friends and family of the country legend, along with city and state officials, gathered on Main Street in Hendersonville at HALO Realty, the original site of the House of Cash music publishing company, to celebrate the milestone achievement.

“Having lived in Hendersonville my whole life, I am grateful and indebted to Tennessee for preserving critical music sites and noting the former House of Cash building as one of those,” said John Carter Cash. “In the early 1970s, this building housed my father’s recording studio. He made hundreds of historical recordings here. I remember sitting on his lap and recording a song with him when I was no more than four years old. Later, it became the Johnny Cash Museum, bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to Sumner County. On behalf of the John R. Cash Revocable Trust and the rest of my family, we look forward to further working with the state to develop additional locations so that fans of music and students of history alike can continue to learn about my father, Johnny Cash.“

Cash made his home in Hendersonville with his wife, June Carter Cash, for 35 years. Roy Orbison and Marty Stuart were close neighbors of Cash, and celebrities and entertainers were regular guests at their lakefront home, which burned in 2007. Visitors come from all over the world to pay their respects to one of music’s greatest love stories at Hendersonville Memory Gardens.

“When the idea of the Tennessee Music Pathways came about, it was artists like Johnny Cash that helped to lay the foundation of this statewide initiative,” added Tennessee Department of Tourist Development Commissioner Mark Ezell. “From Memphis, Nashville, Hendersonville, Bristol and more, Johnny Cash helped shape Tennessee’s rich music history across the state and we are so grateful to celebrate him and his great contributions to music.”

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