A tribute to Johnny Cash offers a collection of photographs, letters, lyrics, memorabilia, and an interview that documents the singer's life and career.
How did Saul Holiff, a serious-minded Canadian businessman, get hooked up with Johnny Cash at his most wild?
When Memphis-born Justin Timberlake's "Cry MeaRiver won for Best Malevideo, he saidinhisacceptancespeech, “Thisisatravesty! Idemandarecount. My grandfather raisedmeon Johnny Cash, Ithinkhe deservesthis more than any of us heretonight” ...
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But the performer probably most identified with the song, the universally beloved flat-picker Doc Watson, would often perform the longer, unedited version, softening Driftwood's “hell” into a polite “wellll,” maintaining a folksy ...
She quickly picked it up and heard the shocking news that Johnny Horton had been killed in a car crash, a head-on collision at 1:35 a.m. on Highway 79 near Cameron, Texas. She sat on the bed for several minutes, trying to figure out how ...
Here Cash is seen as somebody not only worth admiring, but worth fighting for, and this book shows that Cash fandom is a more active field of politics and commitment than might routinely be assumed"--
Robbins. Johnny Cash was a songwriter first and foremost. The importance of his extensive catalog of self-penned songs cannot be denied. But that didn't stop Cash from searching far and wide to find songs that he wanted to record.
Drawing on untapped archives and new research on social movements and grassroots activism, Citizen Cash offers a major reassessment of a legendary figure.
He amorously pursued sixteen-year-old cast member Lorrie Collins, but appears to have spent more time under the artistic spell of singers Tex Ritter, Merle Travis, and Johnny Western, men who reawakened his interest in the Western ...
Allen Klein filled that role for the Beatles in their last days together. Muhammad Ali had “Smokin' ” Joe Frazier. In the great sprawling saga of Johnny Cash, the black hat has been plopped on the head of his father, but I'm not sure ...