The Man in Black

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No matter your age or music tastes, Johnny Cash managed to attract listeners and admirers across genres.


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I think this is the main reason he appealed to such a diverse audience~


He gave a voice to the working man, the luckless, the outlaw, the convict—and to those of us who weren’t any of those things but who sometimes identified with them anyway.

“Well, we’re doing mighty fine, I do suppose / In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes, But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back / Up front there ought ‘a be a man in black.”