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Johnny Cash's lakeside Tennessee home burns down

By Stone Martindale Apr 10, 2007, 23:06 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tennessee- - The lakeside home of late country icon Johnny Cash burned down on Tuesday as renovations were under way for its new owner, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, the Tennessean reported.Legendary American musicians Johnny and June Carter Cash lived together in the lakeside house in Hendersonville, Tennessee, about 20 miles north of Nashville, from 1968 until they died within months of each other in 2003.According to the the Hendersonville Star News, the local fire officials have not determined a cause for the blaze.The paper reports that the three-story, wooden house was featured in the Grammy-winning video "Hurt," the Nine Inch Nails song covered by Cash who made it his own.Gibb purchased the home in early 2006, and he reportedly planned to use it as a vacation home during hurricane season in his adopted hometown of Miami. The Hendersonville Star News said the renovation was in its final stages.

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