After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.
For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.
I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
I've certainly progressed to the point where I love some contemporary things now.
I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.
Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!
It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.
My mother just loved performing, and it must have been crazy for her. She made every stitch we girls wore onstage-without a pattern. She'd just look at us and cut out the size. And she did all the driving!
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
We never actually slept in the Packard, but we'd stay at these places called tourist homes. Then they got these wonderful things called motels.
We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.
You cannot grow up playing with Mother Maybelle Carter on one side of you and Chet Atkins on the other and think you're the most successful musician in the world!
It was her mother who taught June how to play the autoharp and guitar.
The best-of album released by her son, John Carter Cash, won two Grammy's. It was titled Wildwood Flower.
Her daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, died 6 months after June.
She died just 4 months before her husband.
Her future husband, Johnny Cash, liked June's music when they were young.
She had already established a career in her childhood singing with her mother and her sisters in their singing group, "Mother Maybelle and The Carter Sisters".
In April of 2003, June appeared on the CMT Flameworthy Awards to accept an award in honor of Johnny Cash.
In 1987, June published the memoir, From the Heart.
In 1975, June released her first solo album, Appalachian Pride.
In April of 1968, Johnny proposed to June onstage at a concert in London, Ontario.
June was an accomplished autoharp player. She was also a very good banjo and guitar player.
June was born in an area of Virginia known to the locals as the “Poor Valley.”
June, her sisters Helen and Anita, and their mother began performing regularly on the Grand Ole Opry radio show in 1950.
June released the album It's All in the Family in the latter part of 1999.
June was the second child in a family of three girls.
June retired from her solo singing career after marrying Cash in 1968.
Amongst the many guests who attended June's funeral included Karen Adams, Anna Bisceglia, Martha Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Robert Duvall, Rosemary Edelman, Betty Hagewood, Kelly Hancock, Shirley Huffines, James Keach, Merle Kilgore, Peggy Knight, Kris Kirstofferson, Luke Lewis, Dan McKinnon, Willie Nelson, Karen Robin, Lou Robin, Scott Robinson, Michele Rollins, Rick Rubin, Jane Seymour, Ramona Stratton, Lisa Trice, Hank Williams, Jr., Marie Wolfe, Roland Wolfe and Wayne Womack.
June studied acting in the 50s with director Elia Kazan and acting guru Lee Strasberg.
June was 5' 5?" (1.66 m) tall.
June had been married three times over the course of her life. Her first husband was Carl Smith (July 9, 1952 - 1957), they had 1 daughter together (Carlene Carter). Her second husband was Edwin L. "Rip" Nix (Nov. 11, 1957 - ?), they also had 1 daughter together (Rozanna "Rosie" Carter Nix). And finally until her death to Johnny Cash (March 1, 1968 - May 15, 2003). Johnny and June had one child together, a son named John Carter Cash.
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