| The amazing Johnny Cash - singer, writer, poet, activist, guitarist, all-around American force of nature - gets the high-quality, indepth treatment his legacy deserves in this detailed documentary full of fascinating interviews, rare footage and live performing. This video portrait demonstrates the enduring greatness of one of the giants not only of country, folk, and rockabilly but of American music as a whole. Interspersed with an astonishingly rich array of archival performances - they span Cash's early days as a rockabilly rebel, the years of international superstardom, his groundbreaking prison shows, and the later period when he returned to folk roots - are interviews with such musical luminaries as Merle Haggard, Rodney Crowell, Porter Wagoner, Jack Clement, Glen Campbell, and others. Cash performs songs - many in complete performances - ranging from early hits like 'Cry, Cry, Cry', 'Big River', and 'I Walk the Line', to duets with June Carter Cash, to numbers like 'A Boy Named Sue', 'Ring of Fire', 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Bird on a Wire' that will live on in the American repertoire because of Cash's interpretations. A moving and satisfying testament to a great artist. |
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