Johnny Cash's Secret Life: Inside The Country Legend's Dark Days Filled With Drugs, Booze, Lust and Criminal Behavior

Johnny Cash's Secret Life: Inside The Country Legend's Dark Days Filled With Drugs, Booze, Lust and Criminal Behavior

Explore Johnny Cash's secret life filled with drugs, booze, lust and criminal behavior behind the fame.

Johnny Cash: Man In Black - Live In Denmark 1971

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Join the “Man in Black,” along with June Carter Cash, the First Family of Country Music’s matriarch Maybelle Carter, rockabilly eminence Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers for an evening of country, rockabilly, American roots music and spirituals.

60 Year Ago: Johnny Cash is Arrested for “Picking Flowers” -...

Of course, there was a little more going on than innocently picking flowers. But that's how Johnny Cash loved to portray it at the time, before he was more open and honest about his substance abuse issues.