
Ring of Fire
Throwback Thursday, 1963: June Carter wrote it, her sister recorded it first, and a dream about mariachi horns turned it into a Johnny Cash record.
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SONG.REVIEWSArkansas-born singer whose career ran from Sun Records rockabilly in 1955 through the Folsom and San Quentin prison albums to the American Recordings series with Rick Rubin that reintroduced him to a rock audience in his sixties. Died in 2003, four months after his wife and frequent collaborator June Carter Cash.

Throwback Thursday, 1963: June Carter wrote it, her sister recorded it first, and a dream about mariachi horns turned it into a Johnny Cash record.
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Johnny Cash's 1975 recording, from Sings Precious Memories, carries the specific weight of a man in his forties who had already very publicly needed what the hymn is asking for.
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