A review by mickeymole
Man in Black by Johnny Cash

4.0

I find it strange how I like this man's music so much. I'm not a country music fan, but I own on CD or vinyl just about every song Cash recorded. I grew up listening to his most popular songs, not by choice, but because my grandmother always had the radio tuned to a country station in the background. So, Cash and his contemporaries were an unconscious, integral part of my childhood that I wouldn't recognize or give credence to until I was closing in on middle-age. In the early '90s, Cash started putting out the American Recordings. My buddy, Woods, reintroduced me to Cash with a gift of one of these CDs. I was hooked. Then I started buying up all the older stuff, and I fell in love. That's about the time I read this book. Cash can tell a story, and he does a fantastic job telling of his remarkable life in this book. This autobiography came out in '76, so there were quite a few years he'd lived since. I was really hankering for more, and I got it in '97 when he published his up to date [b:Cash|35488|Cash|Johnny Cash|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1422322302l/35488._SY75_.jpg|49239]. That one is a masterpiece of autobiography, thus the reason I give this one 4 stars, instead of 5. The newer bio covers a lot more, but if you're a fan, you should read both.