Vivian Distin was an American author and homemaker. She was the first wife of singer Johnny Cash and mother of their four daughters. She inspired his first hit single "I Walk the Line".
Vivian (left) with Johnny and their children in 1961
"I Walk the Line" is a song written and recorded in 1956 by Johnny Cash. After moderate chart success, it soon became Cash's first #1 hit on the Billboard country chart, and eventually crossed over to