

So much so, in fact, that a fan actually made a car based on the song for Cash that is on display at the Storyteller’s Museum, a building devoted to Cash in rural Hickman County, Tenn. where the singer lived part-time.ġ3.

He made his final trip to the top of the Billboard Country Singles chart with a song that made an impact on many listeners with its lyrics of the ultimate dream machine. Cash’s close relationship with his mother Carrie no doubt inspired the song, which was voted as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all-time from the Western Writers of America in 2014.īy 1976, Cash’s fortunes as a recording artist were very much hit or miss. Cash had quite the way with a story song, and this heartbreaking western anthem became his first chart-topper after his move from Sun to Columbia Records.
