Johnny Cash's sideman dies in Ark.

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Marshall Grant, a longtime member of country music superstar Johnny Cash's original backing 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, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment and a cause of death was not immediately available.

Funeral services are pending.

Grant had been in Jonesboro for a Johnny Cash Festival also featuring country music stars George Jones, Kris Kristofferson and Cash's children, Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash. The festival, on Thursday, was a fundraiser to help restore Johnny Cash's boyhood home near Dyess in northeast Arkansas. Cash, who died in 2003, was born in Kingsland in south-central Arkansas.