Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Johnny Cash on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andy Earl, 1994
"Johnny Cash was a country musician who was too big for country music, and his work as artist, humanitarian, and patron of songs and songwriters will endure indefinitely."
- Adam Sweeting

Graham Nash's shot from Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash rehearsing for the Johnny Cash Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, May 1, 1969
"I thought the image itself was cool, even though it was a damaged negative."

Johnny Cash & Gordon Lightfoot by Jim Marshall, 1969
Cash's amazing version of "If You Could Read My Mind", from his album American V: A Hundred Highways, released in 2006.

June Carter Cash & Johnny Cash by Annie Leibovitz
Hiltons, Virginia, 2001

Two all-time greats share a moment on The Johnny Cash Show. A fine photo by Jim Marshall, 1969

Jim Marshall's portrait of Johnny Cash at home in Henderson, Tennessee, 1974

Jim Marshall
Johnny Cash arrives at Folsom Prison, 1968

Johnny Cash outside Folsom Prison
📷 Jim Marshall, 1968

Jim Marshall captures an important moment during the 1968 Johnny Cash concert at Folsom Prison: June arrives onstage

Jim Marshall
The Handshake, with Glen Sherley, at Johnny Cash's 1968 concert at Folsom Prison

"I said, 'John, let’s do a shot for the warden'."
- photographer Jim Marshall to Johnny Cash at the end of his Folsom Prison concert, 1968

Coffee with Johnny Cash ☕️
📷 Ernie Weatherall, 1959

Another great shot of Johnny Cash by Andy Earl, 1994

A contact sheet for Andy Earl's 1994 photoshoot with Johnny Cash

Andy Earl's most famous shot is this one of Johnny Cash, used on the cover of American Recordings, 1994

Andy Earl's Johnny Cash book seems hard to find. Try here:
schwarzkopf-verlag.info/p/johnny-cash-…

Johnny Cash by Al Clayton
Nashville, 1970

On Johnny Cash's birthday, his boyhood home photographed by Alec Soth.
Dyess, Arkansas, 2002

On Johnny Cash's birthday, I'm listening to his second LP, The Fabulous Johnny Cash, from 1958.
The cover photo is by Hal Adams.