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Ring Of Fire

The Johnny Cash Reader

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By Michael Streissguth

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On Sale
Mar 27, 2003
Page Count
336 pages
Publisher
Da Capo
ISBN-13
9780306812255

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$21.99

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$28.99 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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Johnny Cash is a living icon, one of the defining country musicians of the century and patriarch of a clan that rules as country royalty. He has also been a hard-living firebrand whose air of danger and rebellion made him godfather of the bad boys of today’s rock and rap. He has garnered him an immense audience across generations, selling more than fifty million albums and winning ten Grammy awards. Ring of Fire is the first book to explore Cash’s life and work through essays by some of the best music journalists — Ralph Gleason, George Vecsey, Richard Goldstein, Alanna Nash, Nick Tosches, Jon Pareles, and Ben Ratliff. Whether dispatched in the heat of Cash’s meteoric rise to fame in the ’60s or looking back from the vantage point of his recent musical resurgence and phenomenal new albums, these writings reveal the complex soul of an American legend.

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Michael Streissguth

About the Author

Highways and Heartaches is Michael Streissguth’s tenth book. Among the others are the critically acclaimed Johnny Cash: The Biography and Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris and the Renegades of Nashville, which was named one of the top music books of 2013 by Rolling Stone.  He has written and directed three documentary films, including the award-winning Nighthawks on the Blue Highway and The Tower Road Bus and served as a program advisor on Ken Burns’ PBS documentary series Country Music (2019).  His writing has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Irish Times, Mojo, Bluegrass Unlimited, Living Blues, the Journal of Country Music, and other outlets, and he frequently contributes to rollingstone.com.  He is a professor in the Department of Communications and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.

 

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