
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash": four words into the microphone of a California prison, a guitar snapping like a train on the rails, and America had its legend! Born in 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, the Man in Black carved out his path at Sun Records in Memphis with "I Walk the Line", then shook the walls of Folsom Prison in 1968, the year he married June Carter. His bass-baritone voice tells of inmates, night trains, faith and burning loves, from "Ring of Fire", written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore in 1963, to the devastating cover of "Hurt" released on the album American IV: The Man Comes Around in 2002. Country, gospel, blues and rockabilly meet in a repertoire where harshness never rules out tenderness. Black silhouette printed on cotton, handwritten name, biographies and illustrated books: the echo of that deep voice keeps filling fans' shelves!