Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics

$55.00

By Johnny Cash, with John Carter Cash and Mark Stielper

Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time. This landmark publication, authorized by the Cash estate, marks the first time that his fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Accompanied by rare photographs and ephemera, the lyrics to 125 songs and the stories behind them are presented alongside remembrances from Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, and “family historian” Mark Stielper, offering a profound new understanding of Johnny Cash as a man and an artist, as well as the American story he helped shape.

Retail Price: $55
Details: Hardcover, 384 pages, 12.5” x 9.5”
Publisher: Voracious

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By Johnny Cash, with John Carter Cash and Mark Stielper

Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time. This landmark publication, authorized by the Cash estate, marks the first time that his fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Accompanied by rare photographs and ephemera, the lyrics to 125 songs and the stories behind them are presented alongside remembrances from Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, and “family historian” Mark Stielper, offering a profound new understanding of Johnny Cash as a man and an artist, as well as the American story he helped shape.

Retail Price: $55
Details: Hardcover, 384 pages, 12.5” x 9.5”
Publisher: Voracious

Purchase

  • Johnny Cash was an American singer and songwriter who continues to be one of the bestselling musical artists of all time. He is best known for blending country, rock, blues, and gospel in his music, ushering in the Countrypolitan and Outlaw country movements. Cash was also a successful actor, writer, and activist. His lifelong support for SOS Children’s Villages, a nonprofit advocating for children in need, led to the creation of the Johnny Cash Memorial Fund to carry on that legacy after his death.

    John Carter Cash is the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He has produced five Grammy Award-winning albums and owns and operates the Cash Cabin Studio in Tennessee. He is also the author of House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash.

    Mark Stielper has chronicled the life of the Man in Black for nearly forty years, contributing to a dozen Cash biographies, appearing on screen in documentaries, and speaking at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Cash museum. Johnny Cash himself called Stielper "my friend, the family historian" and said, "He knows more about me than me."