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The Christian Man in Black

 

Johnny Cash: The Life,

 

Robert Hilburn, Little, Brown and Company, 688 pages

By Daniel J. FlynnApril 4, 2014

 

“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”

 

The signature greeting of one of country music’s most iconic performers was hardly needed to introduce him to his audience. The mileage on his face, the dark garb he wore on his body, and the underdog quality on his vinyl more readily identified Johnny Cash. Robert Hilburn’s Johnny Cash: The Life does little to disabuse the fans of their conflation of the public persona with the private person: the man in black was not sunshine off the stage. But if the new biography describes a man that fans intuitively know even before hitting page one, Hilburn gives readers cause to open the book by explaining why Cash was so dark, drugged, and dour. Johnny Cash makes sense of Johnny Cash.

 

The defining moment of Cash’s life occurred when he was 12. With a sense of foreboding, he pled in vain for his 14-year-old brother to join him fishing. Brother Jack Cash opted instead to go to the local school’s woodshop to earn extra money for the family. While making fence posts, the older boy’s stomach pressed against a table saw. The Cash family’s eldest son, and golden child, died a week later.

 

His brother’s death altered Cash’s life in several ways.Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-christian-man-in-black/

 

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