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Southern Gothic is a podcast that explores the history behind some of the American South's darkest days,

greatest mysteries, and most chilling ghost stories. Johnny Cash was a troubled man when he stumbled into Niccajack Cave in 1967.

Although, according to legend, when the notorious country singer walked out, everything had changed.

Cash's early life had been far from easy.

He was born into a poor farming family in Arkansas in 1932,

and after graduating high school,

he enlisted in the Air Force and was stationed in Germany, where he started learning to play

guitar.

When the aspiring musician returned home, he married Vivian Laberto, and the pair settled in Memphis

where they had four daughters.

It was there, in 1955, that Cash signed his first recording contract with Sun Records,

and the following year, I Walk the Line became his first number one hit on the country charts.

Johnny Cash's career took off.

But the young man was not prepared for the pressures of fame and constant touring.

He began drinking heavily and was soon addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates, abusing stimulants in order to continue to perform high-energy shows. And this juggling of pills worked for him for a while

until it didn't. By the early 1960s, Cash's life was spirally not of control and his marriage to Vivian

was crumbling due to his heavy tour schedule, rampant infidelity and this out-of-control

drug use. He had created a public image of being an outlaw, but in reality, Johnny Cash actually never

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