Books
-
£ 11.99
- Ex Tax: £ 11.99
Johnny Cash's American Recordings
Johnny Cash - Book - by Tony Tost
(2011)
This title offers a superb investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who, like his fellow Highwaymen Willie, Waylon and Kris, remained a fondly regarded yet completely marginalized Nashville figure, unheard on the radio and unseen on the charts. Cash's odyssey from oldies act to folk hero pivots on his first American Recordings album, a document of almost unbearable solitude and directness.
It is a singular record, an instance in which a musical giant has been granted a kind of midnight reprieve, a chance to regain and renew his legend. Tony Tost illuminates the ways in which American Recordings is the crossroads where cultural, spiritual and mythic archetypes come together in the figure of The Man in Black. Ultimately, this is a guidebook to myth and mystery, a means of apprehending the stark beauty of Cash's greatest record, the sound of a man alone and fighting for his soul, one song at a time.
You May Also Like
The Mick Ronson Stor...
Mick Ronson - Book - by Rupert Creed & Garry Burnett
£ 14.99 Ex Tax: £ 14.99
Seeing Stevie Ray
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Book - by Tracy Anne Hart
£ 37.99 Ex Tax: £ 37.99
Here We Are Now : Th...
Nirvana/Kurt Cobain - Book - by Charles R Cross
£ 9.99 Ex Tax: £ 9.99
The untold life and ...
Brian Jones / Rolling Stones - Book - by Laura Jackson
£ 11.49 Ex Tax: £ 11.49
David Bowie The Rise...
David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust - Book - by Laura Shenton
£ 14.99 Ex Tax: £ 14.99
Shut Up You Animals!...
Mabuhay Gardens Venue SF - Book - by Dirk Dirksen
£ 24.99 Ex Tax: £ 24.99
Little Symphonies : ...
Phil Spector - Book - edited by Kingsely Abbott
£ 6.49 £ 9.99 Ex Tax: £ 6.49
A Genesis In My Bed
Steve Hackett / Genesis - Book - by Steve Hackett
£ 18.49 Ex Tax: £ 18.49
Lee, Myself and I : ...
Lee Hazlewood - Book - by Wyndham Wallace
£ 14.49 Ex Tax: £ 14.49
Shonen Knife's Happy...
Shonen Knife - Book - by Prof Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
£ 19.49 Ex Tax: £ 19.49