FILE PHOTO OF COUNTRY SINGER JOHNNY CASH WITH WIFE JUNE, 1999-04-06 (photo)

Johnny Cash, country music's "Man in Black," died September 12, 2003, silencing a dark and brooding voice that for nearly 50 years sang plaintive tales of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys. He was 71. His death, at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, cast a late summer pall over Tennessee's Music City where he was easily the industry's most iconic performer. It came four months after the death of his wife June Carter Cash, a member of one of the country's most famous music families. She succumbed to complications from heart surgery at the age of 73. File photo of Cash with wife June at the end of a tribute in Johnny Cash's honor, April 6, 1999 in New York. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen-Files WM/HB