form. I joke about it, saying when I get me an extra hundred-million I wanna do another movie, and I wanna show that good ol’ Arkansas country boy that I thought so much of. But it was a great movie. They did a bang- up job filming it. Of course that movie almost didn’t get made. Yeah. They had a hard time finding somebody to play me that was as purty as I was in 1968. (Laughs) But that movie did so much for so many people, in- cluding me. I think that movie was one of the main reasons why so many people around the world want to meet and listen to somebody that knew played with Johnny Cash. And they don’t even care if its an old, ugly white haired man. (Laughs)
I grew up just loving Johnny and June. Tell me about the real June Carter. Well I’m glad you asked me about June, be- cause she was a fantastic person. I actually met her on a trip - we were playing in Dallas, Texas and June was on the show. This was
her first show with us, it was 1962. Of course John had already met her a few years before that at the Grand Ole Opry. But she was on that show. So she went with us to the next town the next day, and that’s how she joined the Johnny Cash group. It was kind of funny. She rode with us in the car and John was fly- ing. He had moved from Nashville to Califor- nia. When we saw John, we told him we had a great time riding with June, and we told him, “We really like June. We hired her to play with us on the rest of our shows.” (Laughs) Of course it came true! She was quite an enter- tainer, as were all of the Carter Family, Mother Maybelle and Helen and Anita. And we just had a great time together. That was the best show, for all those years, with John and the Carter Family and the Statler Broth- ers and Carl Perkins - he joined the band right after I left him in 1959, around 1962 he joined the band for all those years until ‘75. I was so proud of that show because no matter what kind of music anybody in the audience
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