Johnny Cash - The Last Great American

Biography Documentary narrated by Neil Pearson and published by BBC in 2004 - English narration 


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This is the centre-piece of an extensive Johnny Cash Night on BBC Four. A major retrospective of Cash's life, times and music, it includes contributions from his daughter, Rosanne Cash, and son, John Carter Cash; his long-time manager, Lou Robin; and fellow musicians, including Little Richard, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Elvis Costello. 

Cash was the son of a sharecropper from Kingsland, Arkansas, who sang folk, spiritual and country songs to himself while picking cotton in the fields. In the Fifties he signed to Sam Phillips's Sun Records, scored his first hits and was part of the "Million Dollar Quartet" with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. 

In the Sixties he created his famous Man In Black persona and became a huge country music star with hits such as Folsom Prison Blues, Ring Of Fire, I Walk The Line and A Boy Named Sue. At that time he was also torn between drug dependency, hell-raising and a powerful spirituality. Cash had long since established himself as a man of the people with his prison concerts, beginning with an incendiary performance in San Quentin. 

He ended the decade by finally marrying June Carter, daughter of the legendary Carter family, launching his own national TV series from Nashville, duetting with Bob Dylan, befriending the Native American movement and opposing the war in Vietnam while playing concerts for the soldiers in the field. 

Although plagued by ill health, Cash reignited his career with a new, young audience in the Nineties, when he began to record with Def Jam's producer, Rick Rubin. 

Cash won numerous Grammys and other awards for his last studio album, 2003's The Man Comes Around, and the extraordinary video for the Nine Inch Nails song, Hurt, which revealed Cash as a white-haired old man contemplating his mortality. 

Cash died in September 2003 shortly after the retrospective Unearthed, a five CD-set of the acoustic performances with which he resurrected his career in the last decade of his life, and after losing his wife in June 2003.


1) Further Information 
?* Official Johnny Cash site http://www.johnnycash.com/
?* Man in Black fansite http://maninblack.net/
?* Johnny Cash - Hurt on youtube

2) Related Documentaries 
?* Rebel Music, the Bob Marley Story http://docuwiki.net/?title=Rebel%20Music%2C%20the%20Bob%20Marley%20Story
?* The Other Side of the Mirror http://docuwiki.net/?title=The%20Other%20Side%20of%20the%20Mirror
?* Lost Highway http://docuwiki.net/?title=Lost%20Highway
?* Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel http://docuwiki.net/?title=Gram%20Parsons%20-%20Fallen%20Angel


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