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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Colin Edward WoodwardPublisher: University of Arkansas Press Imprint: University of Arkansas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9781682262085ISBN 10: 1682262081 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 20 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""Colin Woodward has scraped away any romanticism that might obscure the reality of Cash's roots: the hardscrabble existence along with nobility, faith, and the best of the human condition. We know where Johnny Cash ended up. This inspiring book tells us how he got there."" --Mark Stielper, music historian ""It would be hard to overstate the role of Johnny Cash's Arkansas upbringing, through Depression and wartime, in shaping the artist and citizen he later became. Country Boy puts Cash in proper historical and geographic context in this vital contribution to our understanding of the Man in Black."" --Michael Stewart Foley, author of Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash ""Country Boy is a welcome addition to all things Cash, focusing directly on his home state of Arkansas and the influence it had on shaping his values and nurturing his creativity. Colin Woodward peels away myths and legends, including some perpetuated by Cash himself, and replaces them with facts and absorbing scenarios of how the fictions came about."" --Ruth Hawkins, Emeritus director, Arkansas State University Heritage Sites, and founding director, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home ""Johnny Cash comes alive in Arkansas, and it in him. Though his fabulous career took him far afield, as Colin Woodward tells us in this important book, all roads led back to the piney woods and gumbo soil of his fateful home state."" --Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash: The Biography" Country Boy is a welcome addition to all things Cash, focusing directly on his home state of Arkansas and the influence it had on shaping his values and nurturing his creativity. Colin Woodward peels away myths and legends, including some perpetuated by Cash himself, and replaces them with facts and absorbing scenarios of how the fictions came about. --Ruth Hawkins, Emeritus director, Arkansas State University Heritage Sites, and founding director, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home Colin Woodward has scraped away any romanticism that might obscure the reality of Cash's roots: the hardscrabble existence along with nobility, faith, and the best of the human condition. We know where Johnny Cash ended up. This inspiring book tells us how he got there. --Mark Stielper, music historian It would be hard to overstate the role of Johnny Cash's Arkansas upbringing, through Depression and wartime, in shaping the artist and citizen he later became. Country Boy puts Cash in proper historical and geographic context in this vital contribution to our understanding of the Man in Black. --Michael Stewart Foley, author of Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash comes alive in Arkansas, and it in him. Though his fabulous career took him far afield, as Colin Woodward tells us in this important book, all roads led back to the piney woods and gumbo soil of his fateful home state. --Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash: The Biography Author InformationColin Woodward is an archivist who holds a PhD in history from Louisiana State University. He is the author of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War and the host of the American Rambler history and pop-culture podcast. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |