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Another one from Ken Burns' "Country Music"...

After his brother Jack's death, Cash said he wanted to become a gospel singer. When he tried to audition for Sam Phillips at Sun, Phillips said he couldn't sell gospel

WI Cash had gone somewhere else? Say, to Nashville instead of Memphis? Or not to Sun?

It's likely this means none of Cash's famous country songs are recorded, like "Ring of Fire" or "Jackson" or "Boy Named Sue". (Nor his cover of "Solitary Man", which makes the second-to-last episode of "Stargate Atlantis" pretty different.) Neither would he meet June Carter, probably.

How big is the impact on country music? On gospel?
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