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The Dude Abides

Last updated on: April 11, 2007 at 4:03 pm   by Cathleen Falsani

2007-04-11T16:03:00-07:00 Cathleen Falsani

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SAD NEWS: JOHNNY AND JUNE CASH’S HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE

This is such terribly sad news out of Tennessee (and via The Tennessean):

“Camelot.”

That’s what June Carter liked to call the Hendersonville home she shared with her husband, Johnny Cash.

“She thought of it as her and dad’s private kingdom,” wrote the couple’s son, John Carter Cash, in his Anchored In Love: The Life and Legacy of June Carter Cash, a book slated for June release.

The Cashes’ Camelot is in ruins, the victim of a Tuesday afternoon fire that destroyed the more than 13,000-square-foot property. Its new owner, Barry Gibb of Bee Gees fame, bought the house for $2.5 million in early 2006, and he and wife Linda were renovating it for use as a summer home.

Built in the late 1960s, the home had 18 rooms, including a signature round living room and a bedroom that overlooked Old Hickory Lake. It was important for reasons that had nothing to do with size, architecture and design. Like the Cashes’ Virginia home — the one that used to belong to June’s mother, legendary guitarist Maybelle Carter — this was a house of music.

Cash wrote here, of course. He placed acoustic guitars in most rooms, so that he could pluck out chords and melodies as inspiration struck. In the 1970s, he and June often opened the house for guitar pulls that included luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury. They’d also often invite up-and-coming writers that Cash respected and encouraged, including Vince Matthews and Larry Gatlin.

When the house wasn’t open to visitors, it was seemingly impenetrable. As an aspiring songwriter, a down-and-out Kristofferson wanted to hand a tape of his music to the by-then-legendary Cash, but he figured he wouldn’t be able to get past guards. He landed a helicopter in the yard, and Cash ended up recording “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and other Kristofferson songs.

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