Johnny Cash: the Man, the Paradox
Hard to make the call, but the best track on this album may be "God's Gonna Cut You Down."
Back to Rockville, the well-traveled music blog of the Kansas City star, has a good piece up on the late Johnny Cash. The article does a great job pointing out the paradoxes of Cash’s life, which ultimately read kind of like Romans 12:24-25: “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”
We’re big Cash fans (the American albums are awesome) and when I listen to his music I repeatedly find myself appreciating the way that even the shadows in his life end up portraying Jesus, the light that he eventually turned to.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
NOW you’re talking my language! I’ve been a Cash fan since I was a teenager in the ’50’s, and I still can’t get enough Cash music. I love the American recordings too. I’ll check out the KC Star article. By the way, Johnny’s last autobiography is quite interesting, as is John Carter’s book about his mom.
September 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
“I’ve been a Cash fan since I was a teenager in the ’50’s”
That’s awesome. I’ve had some cool conversations about Cash with people my mom’s age and older. That’s a rare artist. We have a biography (Michael Streissguth) but I may have to check his autobio out.