03/08/2023
A Hendersonville legend....I loved seeing this house by boat for many years....
200 Caudill Drive
Hendersonville, Tennessee
Built 1966
http://www.johnnycash.com/
One of the most famous homes in country music — or any musical genre, given the reach of Johnny Cash’s career — was the home of Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash. The property figured in the Cash bio-pic, “Walk The Line” and for nearly all of their 35-year marriage, the Cash family lived in the massive, 13,880-square-foot home that ran along on Old Hickory Lake. The lake house was set on a solid rock foundation, the property had an outdoor swimming pool, bell garden, four large, 35-foot round rooms, seven bedrooms, and five full baths.
But it was more than a house. It was the spiritual home of Cash and the artistic and cultural universe he created, drawing likes of Bob Dylan, evangelist Billy Graham, Carl Perkins, Brooks & Dunn and other high priests and priestesses of the music industry and entertainment and political worlds. The place was memorialized in a song by Cash’s daughter, Rosanne Cash, “House On The Lake.”
After Johnny and June both died six months apart in 2003, the house was sold to singer Barry Gibbs and his wife, who were undertaking a massive renovation. Their plan was to pay homage to Cash and his legend by inhabiting the famous home, but that never happened. The home burned down during the remodel. The event prompted none less than the Oak Ridge Boys to remark that it might have been God’s will; no one else but Johnny Cash was meant to live in that house.