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CASH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him.

In his own words, Cash set the record straight — and dispelled a few myths — as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash's life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs,Cashis filled with the candor, wit

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Cash

January 27, 2011

I usually find entertainer biographies sort of boring. I rarely read them, or if I do pick one up, it’s unlikely I’ll even finish it. That proved not to be the case with Johnny Cash’s autobiography, Cash. I’m guessing the book was probably organized and written by Patrick Carr, with Cash supplying the tapes. But Carr stays out of the way, and from page 1, it’s Cash’s voice that you hear. What a life! A lot of it I already knew, the drugs, the music, June Carter. And some I didn’t (a near fatal encounter with an enraged ostrich might get # 1 overall). But to read it, see it, through Cash’s eyes, hear it through his voice, leaves me with an even greater respect for the seriousness with which he would come to live his life. His humility, his dark places (lots of warts there), and his faith, are all here. That last point, his faith, cannot be downplayed. I would say about a third of the book deals with Cash’s faith in God, and his struggles with drugs and depression. This is no glory hallelujah tale, but a story of man just trying to get some traction in his

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The Man in Black in Living Color

In the 10 years since Johnny Cash died, the Man in Black has arguably been more culturally present than he ever was while alive. Hollywood has something to do with this, of course, giving us the strenuous portrayal by Joaquin Phoenix in 2005’s Walk the Line,the big-screen version of the Cash legend. A year after that, there he was again, scoring a chart-topping country album, the Rick Rubin–produced American V: A Hundred Highways—and again four years after that, when the next installment of the Cash brand, American VI, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart. His face has been slapped on countless envelopes since the U.S. Postal Service dedicated a stamp to him in June. And Cash music just keeps coming: several discs worth of previously unreleased recordings, back-catalog albums reissued by the score, greatest hits collections and box sets now numbering into the dozens, one for every price point—if you’ve got the money, pick that 63-disc Columbia Records box.

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