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Johnny Cash : the biography
- Title
- Johnny Cash : the biography / Michael Streissguth.
- Author
- Streissguth, Michael.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | ML420.C265 S66 2006g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Johnny Cash: The Biography explores in depth many often-overlooked aspects of the legend's life and career. It examines the powerful artistic influence of his older brother, Roy, and chronicles Cash's air force career in the early 1950s, when his song-writing took form ... and when he purchased his first guitar. It uncovers the origins of his trademark boom-chicka-boom rhythm and traces his courtship of Bob Dylan in the folk revival era of the 1960s." "Johnny Cash also delves into the details of Cash's personal life, including his drug dependency, which dogged him long after many thought he had beaten it. It unflinchingly recounts his relationships with his first wife, Vivian Liberto, his second wife, June Carter Cash, and his children. And it follows Cash as man and musician from his early years of success through the commercially desolate years of the 1980s to his reemergence under the influence of producer Rick Rubin - an association that revitalized his career yet raised contradictions about Cash's values and craft."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-323) and index.
- ISBN
- 0306813688 :
- LCCN
- 9780306813689
- OCLC
- ocm71257863
- SCSB-9088305
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries