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Johnny Cash´s American Recordings
Tony Tost
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Description for Johnny Cash´s American Recordings
Paperback. 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. This title offers an investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: AVGL; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. Series: 33 1/3. 144 pages. 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. This title offers an investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGL; AVH. Dimension: 165 x 171 x 18. Weight: 212.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
33 1/3
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441174611
SKU
V9781441174611
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About Tony Tost
Tony Tost is a scholar and poet who lives in Seattle, Washington. His first collection, Invisible Bride, won the Walt Whitman Award; his second, Complex Sleep, won a starred review from Publishers Weekly. He is currently completing his dissertation on American poetry and myth at Duke University.
Reviews for Johnny Cash´s American Recordings
It's a terrific, illuminating read that I'd recommend to anyone who loves Johnny Cash, and that record in particular.
No Depression Magazine
Tost cores the Cash mythology with the reverence it deserves, and in so doing gets to the very logic of reckoning.
Miami Sun Post
In a dynamically sequenced succession of short-burst essays, Tost matches ... Read more
No Depression Magazine
Tost cores the Cash mythology with the reverence it deserves, and in so doing gets to the very logic of reckoning.
Miami Sun Post
In a dynamically sequenced succession of short-burst essays, Tost matches ... Read more