Jimmy Tittle

Jimmy Tittle is an American country singer-songwriter, bassist and musician. He is the son-in-law of acclaimed country singer Johnny Cash.

Tittle has been involved with music from a young age and had begun performing and touring with bands, professionally, in his teens.

In 1974, when he was eighteen, he toured with Merle Haggard's The Strangers, playing bass. Named after Haggard's song "Strangers," The Strangers served as the backup band for Haggard. Over the years, The Strangers included well-known country musicians such as James Burton, Glen Campbell, Iris DeMent, Norm Hamlet, Ralph Mooney, Bonnie Owens, Eldon Shamblin, and Gordon Terry. The band won Academy of Country Music Band of the Year Awards in 1974 and 1975.

Tittle left The Strangers in 1978 to form a country band with Ricky Frizzell and Danny Husky, the sons of noted country musicians Lefty Frizzell and Ferlin Husky, respectively. The band toured the south extensively gaining a large following until a tragic accident that took the life of Danny Husky. Jimmy returned to Nashville and worked as a session musician.

In 1981, Tittle began dating Kathy Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto. Kathy liked Tittle's music and introduced him to her father. A meeting between Tittle and Cash followed and Cash hired Tittle to tour with him. Over the following seven years, Tittle traveled with Cash's band nationally and internationally and also participated in numerous television specials and soundtrack albums.

Tittle left the working with Johnny Cash in 1989 to pursue an independent career in songwriting. He was signed by Bug Music, Nashville, to an exclusive songwriter's agreement and had his songs recorded by influential artists such as Jann Browne, Johnny Cash, Evangeline, Rodney Crowell, and Rosanne Cash.

In the early 1990s, Tittle's music expanded to the European audience after his first two albums, "Jimmy Tittle" (1990) and "Fade to black" (1991,) were released in Europe by Dixiefrog Records in Paris, France. Sony Music France released his third CD titled "Real Life" and a compilation CD titled "Rooms Full Of Money, Heart Full Of Pain."

Over the years, he has also co-written songs with Marty Stuart, John Hiatt, John Stewart, LeRoy Preston, Dave Alvin, and Cindy Bullens.