"Johnny Cash is not only a great person for me to sing and karaoke, but he's also I think a genuinely likable person, although there was much in his life that one could not like.

It was writ - what it is is a series of writings by different authors who often contradict each other, but it's not that. It's the fact that they're almost always younger than him, from a more recent generation. I'm only seven years younger than Johnny Cash myself, and I grew up in the South, I had a lot of the same experiences. The transition from segregation to integration was a pivotal event in the lives of about just anybody who grew up in the South in my generation. Johnny Cash always seemed to be on the side of the underdog and on the side of civil rights, and so on, and so I would like to know more about hoe he went through this transition.

Well, I would recommend it to Johnny Cash fans, obviously, and to country music fans in general. I'd give it four and a half stars; I'd hold back half a star because I think the writers are suffering from disadvantage of perspective, not being able to - a few of them were in my generation, and they sort of wrote it from the perspective of today and how we see the past from today's perspective rather from the perspective of his lifetime."

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