A Country Singer's Dream Background

In 1932, Johnny Cash was born to a very poor family in rural Arkansas. His father drank a lot and had screaming arguments with his mother. All seven kids worked in the fields with their parents farming cotton. When Johnny was 12, he tried to persuade his older brother, Jack, to go fishing with him one morning,. But Jack had a job sawing up oak trees as he lay dying. This was a tragedy that cast a shadow over his whole life. He never recovered from it and there was no way of getting away from it.