{"id":1612,"date":"2017-10-27T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:20:21","slug":"songwriting-tips-trivia-from-songregistration-com-this-months-featured-artist-johnny-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/songwriting-tips-trivia-from-songregistration-com-this-months-featured-artist-johnny-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Songwriting Tips & Trivia from #SongRegistration.com (This month’s featured artist: Johnny Cash)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First, some tips:
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\n\u279c During songwriting sessions, plan ahead to avoid people, places, or things that you KNOW take you off-point (and vice versa, put yourself in proven environments that inspire you).
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\n\u279c If collaborating, decide songwriting credits right away (splitting potential revenues, etc.) to avoid future disputes (read https:\/\/goo.gl\/jNbfIA).
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\n\u279c Figure out when you’re most productive (start a daily activity diary to find that out), then schedule your sessions during those times without phone, computer, or other distracters.
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\n\u279c Always keep rhythm in mind, eliminating clunky un-singable words, phrases or lines.
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\n\u279c Before recording, practice your songs at tempo. Otherwise, you risk a “stammering” quality.
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\n\u279c Always preserve your music copyright<\/a> by professionally registering your songs. With SongRegistration.com<\/a>, it’s fast, cheap, and super-easy.
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\nNOW\u2026 some #Johnny_Cash factoids…
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\n\u279c Here’s a twist: “Cash” is real (it’s Scottish), but “Johnny” isn’t! Born J.R. (initials were common in the South), he needed a real first name for the Air Force so made up “John R. Cash.”
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\n\u279c Born in 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas (1 of 7 children), at 22 he moved to Memphis, sold appliances, studied radio announcing at night, and played guitar whenever he could.
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\n\u279c At Sun Records (where Elvis started), after a couple of non-hit singles, he recorded Folsom Prison Blues, then I Walk The Line (both in 1957 at age 25), and the rest is history.
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\n\u279c Despite the rumors, he never served prison time (just some single-night jail stints), though he performed many prison concerts (with 2 live albums from Folsom and San Quentin).
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\n\u279c His “dark” side likely came from the death of his 14-yr-old brother in a horrible industrial-saw accident. Johnny was 12 and never got over the guilt for not convincing Jack to go fishing with him that day instead.
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\n\u279c Although remembered mostly for country music, he was inducted into 3 Halls of Fame for different genres — Country, Rock and Roll, and Gospel — selling more than 90 million albums over 50 years.
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