If you ask me, our government could learn a thing or two from Johnny Cash.
The Man In Black is one of the most famous people to come out of Arkansas (aside from maybe Slick Willy), having been born into a family of poor cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas before his family moved to the New Deal colony of Dyess during the Great Depression.
As a teenager, Cash would often sing on his local radio station, but after graduation he enlisted in the US Air Force and served as a radio operator in West Germany intercepting Soviet transmissions (a position where he became the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin’s death – wild but true story).
After returning home, Cash married his first wife Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis, where he would make his first recordings at Sun Records. And well, the rest is history.
Cash would go on to be one of the most legendary artists in country music, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and would eventually marry into the “First Family of Country Music” with his second marriage to his longtime wife, June Carter Cash.