While he was in the Air Force, Cash bought his first guitar and taught himself to play. With the outbreak of the Korean War, he enlisted in the Air Force. Cash graduated from high school in 1950, moving to Detroit to work in an auto factory for a brief while. While he was in high school, he sang on the Arkansas radio station KLCN.

He was inspired by the country songs he had heard on the radio. By the time he was 12 years old, he had begun writing his own songs. Cash, was born and raised in Arkansas, moving to Dyess when he was three. And he was one of country music's biggest stars of the '50s and '60s, scoring well over 100 hit singles.Ĭash, whose birth name was J.R. However, there was a deep sense of history - as he would later illustrate with his series of historical albums - that kept him forever tied with country. Cash's career coincided with the birth of rock & roll, and his rebellious attitude and simple, direct musical attack shared a lot of similarities with rock. He created his own subgenre, falling halfway between the blunt emotional honesty of folk, the rebelliousness of rock & roll, and the world-weariness of country. Cash didn't sound like Nashville, nor did he sound like honky tonk or rock & roll. With his deep, resonant baritone and spare percussive guitar, he had a basic, distinctive sound. Johnny Cash was one of the most imposing and influential figures in post-World War II country music. Opening with a down-and-dirty, heavily echoed guitar riff, it remains the tune with which he's most often identified. The opening riff of his debut single, 'Movin' and Groovin',' would be lifted for the Beach Boys five years later to open 'Surfin' U.S.A.' It was the next 45, 'Rebel Rouser,' that would really break up him as a national star, reaching the Top Ten in 1958. Before Duane began recording, his principal influence had been Chet Atkins, but at Hazlewood's suggestion, he started concentrating on guitar lines at the lower end of the strings. By the late '50s, Hazlewood had branched out into production. That low, twangy sound was devised in collaboration with producer Lee Hazlewood, an Arizona disc jockey whom Eddy had met while hanging out at a radio station as a teenager. He was also one of the first rock stars to successfully crack the LP market. His distinctively low, twangy riffs could be heard on no less than 15 Top 40 hits between 19.

Perhaps the most successful instrumental rocker of his time, he may also have been the man most responsible (along with Chuck Berry) for popularizing the electric rock guitar. If Duane Eddy's instrumental hits from the late '50s can sound unduly basic and repetitive (especially when taken all at once), he was vastly influential.

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