@cheebdragon you take that back!
Ok… The thing to remember is that the film focuses on Cash’s younger life, his romance with June Carter, and his ascent to the country music scene, with material taken from his autobiographies. It details Johnny Cash’s life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in Dyess, Arkansas, dealing with the death of his brother, his drug addiction, subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter, and his famous concert at Folsom State Prison.So I will answer your question point by point (something I rarely do):
#1: Cash’s band auditions for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. As they play a pedestrian gospel song (“I Was There When It Happened”), Phillips interrupts and asks Cash to play a song that he really feels. As a result, Cash and his band play “Folsom Prison Blues,” and Phillips accepts it. The performance results in a contract, in fulfillment of which Cash begins touring in 1955 (as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) with other young Sun artists. Among those he meets on the tour – along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Waylon Jennings and Elvis Presley – is June Carter, who performs as both a singer and a comedian. so yes the tour existed.
#2 & 3:After his separation from his wife brought on by drug abuse and an apparent relationship with June, Cash attempts to reconcile with June, which involves a long walk to her house (his car is in the shop and he has no cash to reclaim it), but he collapses in the rain. Later, he sees a large house near a lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and promptly buys it. His parents, and the extended Carter family (June, her daughters and her parents, Maybelle and Ezra) arrive for Thanksgiving, at which time Ray dismisses Cash’s achievements and behavior, citing as an example of Cash’s carelessness, an expensive tractor stuck in view of the house. After a tense meal, Cash decides to prove his father wrong by freeing the tractor. June and her family watch in concern as Cash struggles with the machine; June’s mother, apparently aware of her daughter’s true feelings toward Cash, encourages her to go help him, because “he’s mixed up.” June helps Cash when the tractor goes into the lake. After a long detoxification period, June sits with Cash. He wakes up and she gives him some fresh fruit. He then tells her that she’s “an angel.” June, however, admits that she’s made mistakes as well. June then reveals that she, and God, have given Cash a second chance and he cleans himself up.
#4: In 1952, Cash joins the Air Force and is posted to Germany. He seems not to enjoy his time there, but finds solace in playing a guitar he buys and writing songs – one of which will become “Folsom Prison Blues,” inspired by a B-movie shown to the troops, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison.
#5: In 1944, Johnny (then known as “J.R.”) and his brother Jack are listening to a young June Carter on the radio. The brothers discuss their respective strengths and weaknesses with regard to the Bible and hymns. Jack, who is training to become a pastor, and therefore “needs to know the Bible front to back,” is much better at recalling the words and stories of the Bible. J.R., who can sing well like his mother, is adept with the hymns they sing at church. Jack is sawing wood on a job for a neighbor with J.R. When Jack says to J.R. to go on and fish. He is later taken home by his father, Ray, and they find out Jack has been fatally injured in an accident with the saw. J.R.‘s relationship with his father, already strained, becomes much more difficult after Jack’s death.
Hope this helps.
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