Johnny Cash: The Biography
- Know simply as "The Man in Black," he was the quintessential American troubadour of country music. Born J.R. Cash in Arkansas in 1932, it was Cash's musically talented mother who encouraged her son's recognizable gift of song. In 1944, disaster struck the Cash family when the singer's older brother Jack was killed in a tragic accident. Driven by his grief at what he calls the most s.