Cash on Cash: Interviews and Encounters with Johnny Cash [Paperback]

Cash on Cashoffers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century.

As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate, part friend, part spiritual authority, part flawed hero. Throughout a decades-long career, as Cash took risks, embracing new technologies, formats, and attitudes, he cleaved to a simple, core message of unvarnished truth.

A comprehensive collection of Johnny Cash interviews and feature stories, some widely published and others never previously transcribed, culled from the 1950s through the early days of the new millennium,Cash on Cashcharts a singular evolution. From hardscrabble Arkansas poor boy to rockabilly roustabout; international fame to drug addiction and disgrace; born again Christian to gimlet-eyed chronicler of spiritual darkness; TV and movie star to Nashville reject; redemption to loss and back again, several times.

Cash’s story, told in his own words, shines unfiltered light on a journey of archetypal proportions that resonates still."Johnny Cash’s songs of love, death, and divine retribution suggested a man of a somber, mysterious nature. InCash on Cash, Warren has collected Cash’s own words, from successive stages of a legendary career, to reveal the generous and life-embracing spirit that drove the Man in Black.His unfiltered thoughts and insights—with Warren’s insightful framing of each entry—present a complete biographical sweep of a life well lived, an arc of personal growth and spiritual self-discovery that makes this book surprisingly deeper and far more valuable than a mere collection of interviews." —Ashley Kahn, author of George Harrison onGeorge Harrison, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Albl#I