Johnny and June Cash's house has burned down. Nothing is left.

I just loved Johnny and June Cash. I grew up hearing their music because my dad loved them. This story makes me so sad. Be sure to read the entire article on the link.


http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/42394879




Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.

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"So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house — everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.



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"Johnny and June lived there the entire time they were married," Tommy Cash said. "It was the only house they lived in together until they both passed on."



The fire, in this suburb about 20 miles northeast of downtown Nashville, started around 1:40 p.m. Fire trucks arrived within five minutes, but the house was already engulfed, Hendersonville Fire Chief Jamie Steele said.





This is what caught my attention:

The cause is unknown, but Steele said the flames spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the house. The preservative was also being applied inside the house.

I know absolutely nothing about construction. Is applying flammable wood preservative a normal thing to do?

I have all of his albums I have been able to find. A favorite.

In the summers, he would play Cash while bar-b-queing outside in the back yard, while throwing back a cold one. This is where I learned to love Johnny... and how to get a sip of beer!

So many things happened in that house. So many genius songs were creative there, and for Johnny and June, so much love was there:cry:

You can see just how much they adored one another. I think he died of a broken heart after she passed.

that the preservative had petroleum distillates which is common.
They probably left rags that started the fire through internal combustion.

Have seen this happen many times. Once a boyfriend left oily rags on a coiled up rope. The rope started on fire.
Another time painters left their rags on beauty bark and it started a fire next to new condos (the fire started after they had left work for the day).

Spontaneous combustion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion_%28combustion%29
Cotton and oil do not play well together.

You are right - starting to feel like Mrs. Malaprop!
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what a terrible loss. :cry:

Such a loss.

No way Barry Gibbs is living in MY house!