Cash on Cash

Johnny Cash is so much more than an icon. He was a complex, complicated man of deep faith, staunch principles, and mortal failings. Robert Burke Warren has captured all the ripples and depths here, revealing the man as well as the myth and the legend. --Holly Gleason, author, Woman, Walk the Line This book lovingly makes the case for Johnny Cash's reappraisal and continued relevance. Robert Burke Warren has breathed new life into Cash's words with his own concise and compelling historical narrative. His insights give invaluable context--and he does it all in the same plainspoken and unpretentious language as the Man in Black himself. --The Reverend Shawn Amos, musician, author of Cookies & Milk I had a few encounters with the Man in Black, and any further insights into his brilliance, humility, complexity, and charm is going to be a winner for me. A towering figure who kissed my mum smack on the lips backstage at a gig in my hometown Wales back in 1990 and silenced all her doubts about my career choices. --Jon Langford, musician, artist, writer Johnny Cash's songs of love, death, and divine retribution suggested a man of a somber, mysterious nature. In Cash 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 on George Harrison, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, and other music titles