Cash biography book

I usually find entertainer biographies sort of boring. I rarely read them, or if I do pick one up, it’s unlikely I’ll even finish it. That proved not to be the case with Johnny Cash’s autobiography, Cash.

I’m guessing the book was probably organized and written by Patrick Carr, with Cash supplying the tapes. But Carr stays out of the way, and from page 1, it’s Cash’s voice that you hear. What a life! A lot of it I already knew, the drugs, the music, June Carter.

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And some I didn’t (a near fatal encounter with an enraged ostrich might get # 1 overall). But to read it, see it, through Cash’s eyes, hear it through his voice, leaves me with an even greater respect for the seriousness with which he would come to live his life.

His humility, his dark places (lots of warts there), and his faith, are all here. That last point, his faith, cannot be downplayed. I would say about a third of the book deals with Cash’s faith in God, and his struggles with drugs and depre