Less than a month after his death, a Johnny Cash biography is ready to roll and publishers are queuing up at the world’s biggest book fair to sign on for the tale of the country music legend. Garth ...

An American legend's biographer must keep the story compelling and fresh, inserting new interviews, revealing details and a delicate balance of respect and criticism. Streissguth (Johnny Cash at ...

It is not an overstatement to label music journalist and writer Alan Light as one of the premier biographers and music historians. Light's heralded books include “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen ...

[ch.] 1. Come home, 1932-1955 -- 1. Deliverance -- 2. Guilt -- 3. Dreams -- 4. Memphis -- [ch.] 2. A fiery ring, 1956-1957 -- 5. Fame -- 6. California -- 7. J.R ...

The book was released on April 16 via the University of Arkansas Press. The biography explores Cash’s life through the lens of the songs that he recorded and wrote. This was the result of Alexander ...

Nobody who heard the rich timbre of Johnny Cash’s baritone voice could delete it from the sound track of the brain; nobody who paid attention to his arresting lyrics could deny their rhythmic poetry.

Editor's note: Over the next four Fridays, Ground Zero will take a look at a half dozen new books about music and musicians that might make great Christmas gifts or be one of those presents for ...

As a child of the '70s, Michael Streissguth had an unusual musical idol. Although acts such as the Bee Gees, Donna Summer and ABBA dominated the pop charts at the time, young Michael spent his ...

(CNN) -- Johnny Cash was, at heart, a storyteller. In that dramatic, Old Testament voice, he sang songs -- about prisons, about trains, about loneliness and hurt and truth -- and made them his own, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. There have been many books written aboutJohnny Cash, but The Man in Song: A ...

But one of the many problems with framing Cash’s salvation around his literal come-to-Jesus epiphany is there’s a good chance it never even happened. According to Robert Hillburn’s definitive 2013 ...