Music Talent of Johnny Cash
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“Get Rhythm” (1958) is a rockabilly song about optimistic redemption, the story of a poor shoeshine boy who develops “rhythm” to come to terms with the monotonous nature of his life.... His first exposure to music came when singing along with his family as they worked in the fields during the day and sang hymns on the porch at night.... While at school, Johnny once sang on the Arkansas radio station KLCN.... Significantly, just 4 months before his death, Cash sang “Ring of Fire” at a June 21, 2003 concert; in retrospect, this event is seen as his tacit acceptance of an immoral lifestyle that continued to take him deeper into his personal hell, his own “ring of fire....