Johnny Cash's The Man Called Cash

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The Man Called Cash

The man called Cash is a Biography of the life of Johnny Cash. In the early years of 1931 – 2003 Cash was know for his time as a country singer Cash was born to a devout mother and a rather rigid father. He was exposed to suffering and death when he was young.

This authorized biography provides blunt details of country singer Johnny Cash’s life. His father’s siringency and his religious mother’s approach helped Cash endure his poverty stricken childhood in Dyess, Arkansas during the depression. When Cash was a pre-teen his older brother Jack was killed by a circular saw that just about severed him in two. Cash felt strong guilt for his brother’s death and though his father blamed him as well since Cash went off

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