Johnny Cash is about to get a rad, albeit totally ridiculous, honor from the city of Starkville, Mississippi.
The city's Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival will include a pardon for Cash's May, 1965 arrest, for trespassing onto private property to pick flowers late in the night. After the incident, he wrote the tune, "Starkville City Jail."
Cash also wrote about it in his autobiography, where he said he drunkenly broke his big toe while "screaming, cussing and kicking at the cell door all night long."
The festival throws down November 2-4.
In other Cash news, there are two new memoirs about the Man in Black and his wife. His son, John Carter Cash, penned one specifically about June Carter, while Johnny's first wife Vivian's I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny will be released posthumously.
Also, "The Johnny Cash Show" is about to see a DVD release. The Best of the Johnny Cash Show will be out on September 18. It includes performances from Waylon Jennings, Derek and the Dominos, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan, among others.
Finally, yesterday was the anniversary of Cash's death. You and your enormous stage presence are missed Mr. Cash:
