Johnny Cash's Tennessee house burns down

[KiwiCoromandel]

The Tennessee home of late country icon Johnny Cash burned down as renovations were under way for its new owner, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, a local newspaper reported.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived together in the lakeside house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, about 32km north of Nashville, from 1968 until they died within months of each other in 2003.

The Hendersonville Star News said fire officials have not determined a cause for the blaze.

The three-story, wooden house was featured in the Grammy-winning video "Hurt," in which a dying Cash surveyed his wild life.

The couple's heirs sold the house to Gibb in early 2006, and he reportedly planned to use it as a vacation home during hurricane season in his adopted hometown of Miami.

The Hendersonville Star News said the renovation was in its final stages, and it quoted a friend as saying he planned to move in during the summer.

Gibb said at the time of the purchase that he was honoured to buy the house and was determined to preserve it to honour the Cashes' memory.

source:reuters

image:ec2.images-amazon.com:RING OF FIRE....

[DudeAsInCool]

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — A quickly moving fire destroyed the lakeside home of the late country singer Johnny Cash on Tuesday, leaving little more than brick chimneys and the steel frame.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived at the home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003, and Barry Gibb, a member of the Bee Gees.

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[Kooperman]

That house gave up the ghost after June and Johnny passed on......

[Shawn]

That was fate saying:

"Fuck you Barry Gibb. You're not worthy of living in Johnny Cash's home."

[Kooperman]

Barry sings:

Tragedy...I didn't own it long and now it's gone

it's tragedy...

or

I started a fire

which started the whole house burning

Oh I couldn't see

the kerosene on me

[bear]

Actually, when I first read this, I freaked a little. Can you imagine what would have been lost, had the Cash family still owned the placed, and it still held the Cash belongings? Good grief, the musical and historical things in that house that could have been lost. Wow.

[slum_goddess]

That was fate saying:

"Fuck you Barry Gibb. You're not worthy of living in Johnny Cash's home."

lol, Shawn. i saw what's now known as the Tennesee 3 (sp?) a few weeks ago w/Alabama 3 opening for them (J Cash's back up band). the T3 were totally like a tribute band, AFAIC.

A3 totally blew them out of the water. they were so pissed, they refused to let Larry sing w/them as promised in the contract. but then they relented and thank fuck for that. lol, the Band even did 'hello i'm johnny cash' (from their 'outlaw' album) which was recorded a month or so before JC died.