Then I went on to produce the ‘Wildwood Flower’ album by myself with an engineer named Chuck Turner. JJ Blair and I first learned pro-tools engineering in the process of making that record. I was recording my own music at the time and had not set my goals to be a music producer. “I co-produced that record with JJ Blair, I was very green. When I began to work in the studio on the production aspect, I felt like I’d found what I wanted to do when I grow up.” The first record he worked on was the GRAMMY Award winning album ‘Press On’ by his mother, June. “It came naturally just because I’ve been around musicians for as long as I have. He’s written and released music himself and more recently has gone back to that but his passion lay within production. Not everybody has a grandmother like Maybelle Carter, a dad like Johnny Cash and mother like June Carter, but it was their humble nature that was at the heart of my childhood.”Ĭarter Cash was always destined for a career within music, it was in his blood.

My father getting the attention of so many people out front in the audience, I looked up to him but it was later on that I realised that their heritage and legacy was so immense. “For 150 to 200 days a year, you’re watching your parents on stage.

I saw them treat the President of the United States the same as they would the grocery store clerk.” However, John’s family was far from normal, something he only came to realise as he got older.

They were always connected to their roots.

“The thing about it was, my parents were normal, connected to the soil, good people, and they never really outgrew that. The room he’s sitting in is where his mum and dad recorded their later albums, where Loretta Lynn has recorded 105 of her songs, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, all names who have made history in the room.įor John, it wasn’t always a place of work, but a part of his home, as a young child John used to spend time watching movies in there with his dad as any normal child would have done. He tells me of his fond memories of travelling the UK with his father. John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny and June, is sitting in his studio, Cash Cabin Studio as he talks to me, preparing for his recording session later on in the day with his wife Ana Cristina Cash.

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