![]() ![]() I think my knees buckled-he looked about 12 feet tall, and stuck out his hand.” He and June Carter had just shown up in a golf cart. Turn around.’ I did, and looked up and there’s Johnny Cash, right behind me. One day in 1990, I spied him behind a fence at Knott’s Berry Farm, and said, ‘Hey Ernie-how about meeting Johnny today?’ “I was friends with Earl Poole Ball, the piano player in Johnny Cash’s band-and I’d been asking him for years for a chance to meet Cash. So there was a touch of irony in Kent’s meeting with one of his idols, at Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California of all places. Using the shortened name Steven Kent, the 61-year-old singer/songwriter has worked for years as a country musician, many of them in the Phoenix area at a Western theme park and event center called Rawhide. The Healdsburg-based performer has had a lifelong enthusiasm for these two pillars of American music, and proudly lays claim to meeting them both. Cash died in 2003, and Elvis in 1977, but Steven Kent Barker is still going strong, and he’s not yet another Elvis impersonator. Okay, so it’s not really Johnny Cash, and it’s not really Elvis- that probably goes without saying. 27, when Steven Kent brings them back to town with his Cash & King show on the Raven stage. ![]() It’s been five years since Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley last took the stage in Healdsburg. ![]()
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