J.R.Cash - Buchtipps gesucht

[burroughs]

Hallo zusammen:
bisher hab ich von Cash gerade mal ein Buch
und zwar is das die Biographie, die sich zum Großteil aus *rolling stone*-artikeln zusammensetzt.
bisher bin ich ganz zufrieden mit dem teil, aber es gibt da doch sicher besseres

gestern war ich mal wieder stöbern und hab folgendes gefunden:

Stephen Miller - das Leben einer amerikanischen Ikone

Steve Turner - Ein Mann namens Cash

J.Cash mit Patrick Carr - Cash, die Autobiographie

Frank Doobler - the beast in me

was davon sollte man haben, was kann man liegen lassen?
auch andere Tipps gerne willkommen

[Camel80]

Ich hab' Cash - Die Autobiographie und finde das Buch ganz interessant, ist zwar vom Zeitablauf etwas sprunghaft, aber es enthält 'ne ganze Menge an Anekdoten...
Also ich finde das mit einer chronologischen Biographie, als Ergänzung gar nicht schlecht.

[michael grasberger]

ich empfehle franz dobler und cashs autobiographie.
m.

p.s.: hier noch bob dylan's statement zum tod von johnny cash. finde ich sehr berührend, und besonders der letzte absatz bringt die leistung von cash echt auf den punkt.
Bob Dylan's Statement on Johnny Cash (26 Sept. 2003)


I was asked to give a statement on Johnny's passing and thought about writing a piece instead called "Cash Is King," because that is the way I really feel. In plain terms, Johnny was and is the North Star; you could guide your ship by him -- the greatest of the greats then and now. I first met him in '62 or '63 and saw him a lot in those years. Not so much recently, but in some kind of way he was with me more than people I see every day.
There wasn't much music media in the early Sixties, and Sing Out! was the magazine covering all things folk in character. The editors had published a letter chastising me for the direction my music was going. Johnny wrote the magazine back an open letter telling the editors to shut up and let me sing, that I knew what I was doing. This was before I had ever met him, and the letter meant the world to me. I've kept the magazine to this day.
Of course, I knew of him before he ever heard of me. In '55 or '56, "I Walk the Line" played all summer on the radio, and it was different than anything else you had ever heard. The record sounded like a voice from the middle of the earth. It was so powerful and moving. It was profound, and so was the tone of it, every line; deep and rich, awesome and mysterious all at once. "I Walk the Line" had a monumental presence and a certain type of majesty that was humbling. Even a simple line like "I find it very, very easy to be true" can take your measure. We can remember that and see how far we fall short of it.
Johnny wrote thousands of lines like that. Truly he is what the land and country is all about, the heart and soul of it personified and what it means to be here; and he said it all in plain English. I think we can have recollections of him, but we can't define him any more than we can define a fountain of truth, light and beauty. If we want to know what it means to be mortal, we need look no further than the Man in Black. Blessed with a profound imagination, he used the gift to express all the various lost causes of the human soul. This is a miraculous and humbling thing. Listen to him, and he always brings you to your senses. He rises high above all, and he'll never die or be forgotten, even by persons not born yet -- especially those persons -- and that is forever.

[burroughs]

danke folks
dann werd ich mir die beiden in der nächsten zeit mal zulegen