The Johnny Cash Show

…regularly on television on the Johnny Cash Show (her daughter June married Cash in 1968) and to perform to appreciative audiences across the country and in Europe.

…London and his television show,“The Johnny Cash Show” (1969–71), which deviated from the standard variety program by featuring such guests as Ray Charles, Rod McKuen, and Bob Dylan (who had enlisted Cash to appear on his 1969 album, Nashville Skyline), brought to the general public his powerfully simple songs…

…performance of that song on his TV show in February sparked a controversy about a reference in the lyrics to being “stoned,” which Cash had refused to change at the network censors’ request.