I've read many reviews that don't like this book because Johnny Cash was religious and was raised as such. But on the other side to this, the book pays amazing and refreshing tribute to just how darn kind people can be and how much we can all help each other to become better people. There's a lot of humility and honesty in these pages, and sometimes the stark reality of addiction is depicted so effectively that you gotta put the book down. For the most part I enjoyed how Cash wrote like a man aware of how much he'd grown and how much growing he had left to do. I also find myself asking how I should feel about Mr Cash winding up thinking he's been chosen by God to sing country songs about Israel? What's the relationship between religious devotion and unprecedented financial wealth? These questions dont dominate my mind too much while reading tho. Within this theres all sorts of questions raised that give me some big thinks regarding specifically American Christianity and its relationship to blind patriotism. The book deals entirely with his addiction to amphetamines and how his faith in God helped him overcome it, but he also ties it all back quite beautifully to the tragic death of his older brother when he was a child. ![]() It turns out our boi JR is actually a very good writer, and he does a great job of refining and crafting the most important moments of his life into a neat and textured narrative. Great to read an autobiography with such focus. He sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a "commanding position in music history". He also recorded several humorous songs, such as "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Right Is on the Left", "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" a duet with June Carter, Jackson, and "A Boy Named Sue" rock-and-roll numbers such as "Get Rhythm" and various railroad songs, such as "Rock Island Line" and "Orange Blossom Special". His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "That Old Wheel" (a duet with Hank Williams Jr.), "Cocaine Blues", and "Man in Black". ![]() Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. He rarely (if ever) wavered from introducing himself before performing, with the greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century.Ĭash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, his trademark dark clothing which earned him his nickname, the boom-chick-a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, and his demeanor. Cash, also known as "The Man in Black", was a multiple Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter.
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