Trains, Jesus, and Murder : The Gospel according to Johnny Cash /

"Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together." That's the genius of Johnny Cash, and that's what the gospel is ultimately all about. Johnny Cash sang about and for people on the margins. He famously played concerts in prisons, where he sang both murder ballads and gospel tunes in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beck, Richard Allan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cash, Johnny > Religion.
Cash, Johnny > Criticism and interpretation.
Country music > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : trains, Jesus, and murder
  • part 1. Family and faith. I am bound for the promised land
  • I walk the line
  • part 2. Sinners and solidarity. The man in black
  • Folsom Prison blues
  • Greystone Chapel
  • San Quentin
  • The ballad of Ira Hayes
  • Give my love to Rose
  • The legend of John Henry's hammer
  • Sunday mornin' coming down
  • part 3. Nation and nostalgia. Ragged old flag
  • Drive on
  • part 4. Suffering and salvation. Delia's gone
  • Hurt
  • The man comes around
  • Epilogue : The Gospel road.

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