Rainbow Quest 1 -- June Carter Johnny Cash Pete Seeger

Rainbow Quest was a wonderful TV series from the 1960s in which Pete Seeger presented some of the most amazing folk and traditional musicians of the time. In this 1965 show he invited June Carter and Johnny Cash to pick and sing with him. In this scene Johnny sings "I am a Pilgrim" and then June goes into a crazy story of how she lost some teeth in Korea!

It is funny not to see Johnny and June sitting together as they always do in later talk shows, but at this time they were not officially together or divorced from their previous spouses. Still the love is very clearly there!

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[jadams128]

He looks like he is stoned on coke, that causes the jaw movement and the restlessness

[twofortheroad]

As far as Johnny said, and he was always very open about his faults, he never did coke or heroin or anything other than alcohol and his amphetamines.

[blondekate]

Wasn't JC busted for amphetamines?  Doesn't seem to be too hyper, just the opposite.

[twofortheroad]

Yes, he was into amphetamines, and he seems very fidgety to me, not exactly relaxed even if he did take his boots off!

[ADACaseyNovak876]

I wish the resolution were better. Thanks so much for posting. Poor June, John looks rough.

[puck30]

Johnny was wacked on sumpin' that day. God bless June for being there back then. Johnny looks like he is in a death spiral. Because of June we got to hear more from this man for decades to come.

[Timothydlol]

june is so sexy

[wdcritte]

@jadams128

The important thing is who Johnny Cash was as an artist. It is wonderful to see all three of them youthful and full of life.

[tripnixon]

3 people shouldn't have visited this video

[johnpaulgrfab4]

At the height of his amphetamine addiction. the man is WIRED

[StagPreston]

and pot. That was originally listed in Billboard as part of his bust coming back from Mexico. However, by the time it got to court, the pot charge had disappeared

[08071997bgp]

i think june is ah-mazing:)i have a autoharp because of her:)

[anomalovaho]

higher than a mother &%$#@ squirel

[peskysushi]

I wish I could find a clip that shows Johnny playing I am a Pilgrim in his entirety. Anybody know?

[moproducer]

@twofortheroad He did write about smoking grass, and once getting high on grass & speed and drunk all at once. His first addiction, in late 50s until about the time his son was born, was on amphetamines. In the late 70s, he was taking speed again, but got hooked on painkillers. He cleaned up for a couple of years and went back to uppers twice, finally kicking them (we think) for good around 1993.

His son wrote that when he wasn't addicted to drugs, he was addicted to women.