{"id":170467,"date":"2022-04-13T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=170467"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:52:38","slug":"johnny-cash-biography-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/culture\/history\/johnny-cash-biography-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #794: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Johnny Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Cash, &#8220;The Man in Black,&#8221; said he wore all black on behalf of the poor and hungry, the old who were neglected, &#8220;the &#8220;prisoner who has long paid for his crime,&#8221; and those betrayed by drugs. As a man who had grown up dirt poor, struggled his whole life with addiction, was thrown in jail seven times, and found himself in the proverbial wilderness during a long stretch of his career, Cash had a real heart for these kinds of folks; he was a man who had lived numerous ups and downs himself.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Terrill, co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vePnOn\"><em>Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon<\/em><\/a>, will take us through these biographical peaks and valleys today. We talk about Cash&#8217;s hardscrabble upbringing on a cotton farm, his unfulfilled desire to please his father, and how his rise into stardom was accompanied by the arrival of a set of personal demons. 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