Johnny Cash

J.R. Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas and grew up in Dyess — an Arkansas Delta farming community just a few miles from the world Jim Quessenberry knew. He became Johnny Cash, one of the most influential musicians in American history: "The Man in Black," a voice that carried the weight of rural Arkansas into every jukebox in the country.

Jim cited Cash, Twitty, and Liston together as the Delta's proof-of-concept — evidence that something real and lasting came out of that flat, hard country.