John Carter Cash

John Carter Cash (born March 3, 1970) is an American country singer-songwriter, musician and author. He is the only child of Johnny Cash and his second wife June Carter Cash. He is the grandson of Mother Maybelle Carter.

Biography


John has four older half-sisters from his father's first marriage to Vivian Cash (née Liberto). They are Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara.

He also has two older half-sisters from his mother's previous marriages, singers Carlene Carter and Rosie Nix.

For several years after John's birth, his father altered the conclusion of "A Boy Named Sue" to mention the boy by name. In 1972 his parents recorded the duet "I Got a Boy (And His Name is John)" about their son. In 1975 a photograph of him with his father was featured on the sleeve of the album Look at Them Beans.

Like many of his siblings, John Cash followed his parents into show business. He has worked as a singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. He was music producer on his mother's albums Press On and Wildwood Flower; the latter won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk album.

He was the associate producer of his father's American III: Solitary Man and American IV: The Man Comes Around. In the early 1990s he toured with his father as a rhythm guitarist.

He has also produced recordings for such artists as: Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, and Vince Gill. He owns and operates Cash Cabin Enterprises, LLC., a music production company in the Cash Cabin Studio.



Marriage and family
By 1999, John Carter Cash had met fiddler Laura Weber when she joined his parents’ Press On tour to promote his mother’s album of the same name. John Carter Cash and Laura Weber were married in 2000. They had two children, Anna Maybelle Cash (nicknamed AnnaBelle) and Jack Ezra Cash. They later divorced in 2013.

He later married Ana Cristina Cash, a singer, in 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina. They have two children, Grace June and James Kristoffer.

Cash also has one older son, Joseph John, from another previous marriage.

Books
Cash has written books about his parents:
 * Anchored in Love: an intimate portrait of June Carter Cash, Thomas Nelson, 2007
 * House of Cash: the legacies of my father Johnny Cash, Insight Editions, 2011
 * Cash and Carter family cookbook: recipes and recollections from Johnny and June's table, Thomas Nelson, 2018

He also has written children's books:
 * Momma Loves Her Little Son, Little Simon Inspirations, 2009
 * Daddy Loves His Little Girl, Little Simon Inspirations, 2010
 * The Cat in the Rhinestone Suit, Little Simon Inspirations, 2012
 * Lupus Rex, a novel, Ravenstone, 2013.