"Let me tell you, it is a degrading, horrible experience when you realize you're losing your husband to another woman." When Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage, she fully expected him to wed his mistress June Carter. But she never could have predicted that she would be vilified in pop culture as the bitter ex-wife who tried to stop him from singing. To make matters worse, she was temporarily excommunicated from the Catholic Church due to her divorce and banned from taking communion — a ban that was only lifted when Cash himself wrote to the archdiocese confessing his failure as a husband.
@fasc1nate John Denver & Johnny Cash singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (1978)
@timecaptales Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire (in 1964)
@timecaptales @fasc1nate Two absolute treasures
@timecaptales @fasc1nate Their voices together sound beautiful.
@timecaptales @fasc1nate Denver did a nice job of working with Cash’s style and voice.