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I'd beg to differ on the Johnny Cash appraisal. Not that he actually deserves his pill-popping, bird shooting rebel "Saint of Sinners" role. But summing him up as a "Conservative, flag-waving Christian" is doing him a diservice. I can think of very few Christians as sincere and committed that I actually would have liked to invite to dinner. His work and personal stances were Christian in the best possible sense, and as for conservatism, sure, he was a Southerner of a certain generation, but one who believed in social justice and racial equality. Have you ever listened to "The Man in Black?"
"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times."
Not really conservative, is that?
Not that I think that his output is an unassailable sacred cow. Until the Rick Rubin records, I don't think he ever put out a good record; like most of his contemporaries he was at his best a writer of good singles, and when he started attempting more cohesive works, they didn't quite work. |
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