JONESBORO, Ark. – Marshall Grant, a longtime member of country music superstar Johnny Cash’s original band, the Tennessee Two, has died in Arkansas. He was 83.
Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., said Grant died Sunday.
A spokeswoman at St. Bernard’s Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro, Ark., did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment and a cause of death was not immediately available.
Funeral services are pending.
Grant and Luther Perkins were guitar-playing auto mechanics when they were introduced to Johnny Cash by Cash’s brother, Roy, a fellow mechanic, in Memphis in 1954. He played bass guitar in Cash’s band from 1954-80.