Johnny Cash's House (former)

Johnny Cash, the Man in Black: “I Walk the Line,” “Ring of Fire,” and the album cut at Folsom Prison. He recorded from Sun Records in 1955 to the American series 5 decades later.

Builder Braxton Dixon raised the house in 1967 from reclaimed stone, barn wood, and doors 6 inches thick cut from an old Charleston wharf. He meant to keep it until Cash pressed $150,000 on him.

A 1968 fire next door took Roy Orbison’s house and 2 of his sons. Orbison sold Cash the land on his promise never to build there, and the Cash family tended it as an orchard.

Cash and June Carter married on March 1, 1968, and moved in as newlyweds. It was theirs for 35 years, until they died 4 months apart in 2003.

Mark Romanek shot the “Hurt” video’s dining-room scenes here on October 18, 2002, with June at Cash’s side. The rest was filmed in the shuttered House of Cash museum on Main Street.

Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees bought the house in January 2006. On April 10, 2007, midway through his renovation, it burned to the ground.

What survived: June’s 546-square-foot wardrobe cabin, the pool, tennis court, dock, and 1,000 feet of Old Hickory Lake frontage. The 4.5-acre site went back on the market in January 2019.