This shit almost writes itself...

[pepperlandgirl]

I was listening to the classic country station today while reading and trying to get the nasties off of my computer, and I noticed a "fun fact" during a Johnny Cash song. One of his daughters was married to Marty Stuart in the 80s...and I got to thinking that it wasn't entirely uncommon for their to be a sort of Empire building tendency in country music...Johnny Cash's family is a good example of this. And I got to thinking how there tends to be more of this in country music than say, rock. And I got to thinking "What would it take to build a sort of empire?"

So far my fictional country music stars are two generations deep, responsible for one divorce, one suicide, a few CMAs, a few grammys...

I'll probably have a half-century long saga by the end of the night.

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

It gets worse. Johnny Cash married June Carter Cash, who is one of the daughters of Mother Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. The early Carter Family recordings established Country as a genre. Carlene Carter is also in that third generation, and Rodney Crowell is another one of the in-laws.

And that's not even bringing to mind the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash.

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I knew about June Carter....

Now, I thought I heard/read/saw that the Tillus (SP? as in Mel and Pam) Clan are related to the Carters. Do you know if that's the case?

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be too surprised, but I hadn't heard anything about the Tillises. nwhepcat has a far deeper knowledge of country than I do.

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

It is an empire they were/are building. It's a long term and quiet non-dramatic plan to overtake the world.

Not that I believe in conspiracy theories or anything

Tonya

p.s. You want a coincidence? As I was reading your post, I was listening to Johnny. Odd