The artist who has been working on a sculpture of Arkansas native Johnny Cash for the National Statuary Hall collection in the U.S. Capitol will visit Arkansas State University and the "Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home" from Feb. 3-4.
Arkansas State University Heritage Sites, KASU public radio, and the Mississippi County Hospital System will sponsor the second installment in the summer concert series, "Live from the Cash Porch," at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 16.<br/> <br/>Blind Mississippi Morris and Brad Webb will perform in the admission-free series starting at the boyhood home of music legend Johnny Cash in Dyess.<br/><br/> “We are delighted to have Blind Mississippi Morris and Brad Webb at our second summer concert,” commented Penny Toombs, director of Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site. “As before, we encourage folks to come out with friends and family to enjoy this special experience of live music on the Cash porch.”<br/><br/> A native of Clarksdale, Miss., and blind since age four, Blind Mississippi Morris is the embodiment of the Delta bluesman. Rated one of the 10 best harmonica players in the world by Bl
Lyrics from two Johnny Cash classics posted at Historic Dyess Colony s museum echo the hardscrabble childhood that the future musical maestro weathered during the Great Depression and World War II.