Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306812255)

Johnny Cash is a living icon, one of the defining country musicians of the century and patriarch of a clan that rules as country royalty. He has also been a hard-living firebrand whose air of danger and rebellion made him godfather of the bad boys of today's rock and rap. He has garnered him an immense audience across generations, selling more than fifty million albums and winning ten Grammy awards. Ring of Fire is the first book to explore Cash's life and work through essays by some of the best music journalists -- Ralph Gleason, George Vecsey, Richard Goldstein, Alanna Nash, Nick Tosches, Jon Pareles, and Ben Ratliff. Whether dispatched in the heat of Cash's meteoric rise to fame in the '60s or looking back from the vantage point of his recent musical resurgence and phenomenal new albums, these writings reveal the complex soul of an American legend.

Author: Michael Streissguth
ISBN-10: 0306812258
ISBN-13: 9780306812255
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2003
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d