Eddie Cash and the Cashiers - Day After Day (1959)
ROCKABILLY
Eddie Cash and the Cashiers - Day After Day
Born Edward Allen Cash, 28 February 1941, Memphis, Tennessee
Died 16 September 2016, Mukwanoga, Wisconsin
For years the artist behind the name Eddie Cash was a question mark. We had heard he'd played in Las Vegas but we could not locate him, and it was not until 1991 when my buddy Erik and me visited Memphis we saw him name on a sign. He played at a hotel close to the airport, we tried to get hold of him but had not the time stay and look further. Next rumors said that Klaus Kettner of Hydra had been in touch with him so we asked Klaus, but still no luck.
It wasn't until Tony Wilkinson caught his act in Branson, Missouri in 1995 and asked him if he had any interest to have his story told. I contacted Eddie and he agreed to the article. This is what came out of our correspondence.
Edward Allen Cash was born on February 28, 1941, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the only child to Virginia and James Cash (no relation to Johnny). His father worked at Firestone Tire & Rubber and was a foreman in the machine shop, he was also a machinist and a tool and tire man. Eddie's mother was a house wife and he commented:
-My mom had a fulltime job raising an idiot like me.
In school Eddie's biggest interest was history. He didn't caught a really interest for music until the cool cat music came along. He thought that there would be a place for him also. We asked him what his main music influences had been before Elvis entered the scene and after, Eddie:
-Well, to be quite honest with you I was very much affected by as far as my heart concerns with blues. I've always been a great fan of blues. I got into rockabilly or rock 'n' roll as you now call it at a very early age. I began in the business in 1956 and this is my 40th year. My biggest rockabilly influence was probably Carl Perkins. I think the first song I ever sang first at a contest which I entered at the Casino at the Fairground which here in Memphis and incidentally won was a song called \"Matchbox\". I'm a big BB King fan, I love blues very much. I like all styles of music as far as answer your question. I grew up in a neighbourhood full of kids that wanted to be in the entertainment business. I don't know why but for some strange reason, when I was a kid growing up in Memphis we had a neighbourhood full of kids like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Isac Hayes, Al Green, The Staple Singers, Kay Starr, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet, Booker T & The MGs, The Will
ie Mitchell Band, Sam The Sham & The Pharroas, goodness me head goes blank.. Carl Perkins of course came down from Jackson and that's just 40-50 miles from Memphis. We had a neighbourhood full of these kids who just wanted to pick and sing and be like these big stars.
Eddie put his first band together in 1956 which was called \"The Mad Caps\". But, first of all Eddie wanted to be a drummer, but fait wanted different, Eddie: -I was about fourteen. I began in the business wanting to be a drummer. I'm a frustrated drummer, I don't play very well, and I haven't played for a long time, but I love to play drums very much. In the first band I organized I was the drummer. The kid that was gonna sing was Virgil Henry, and Virgil got arrested for stealing hub caps and they told me I had to sing. The reason being that they had another drummer but they did not have another singer. So I had to sing and give up my drums or get out of the band, so I threw my drums away and began to sing and I've been singing for four decades now. more... http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/eddie_cash.htm
