Shortly after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force in 1950, Johnny Cash met his first wife Vivian Liberto during basic training before being stationed in Germany where he bought his first guitar for five dollars and started the band Landsberg Barbarians—named after their base in Bavaria, Germany. When Cash received an honorable discharge in 1954, […]
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