I Walked The Line

Author : Vivian Cash
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847395955

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I Walked the Line by Vivian Cash Pdf

When Johnny Cash died in September 2003, the world mourned the loss of the greatest country music star of all time. I Walked the Line is the life story of Vivian Cash, Johnny's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. It is a tale of long-kept secrets, lies revealed, betrayal and, at last, the truth. Johnny and Vivian were married for nearly fourteen years. These years spanned Johnny's military service in Germany, his earliest musical inclinations, their struggling newlywed years, Johnny's first record deal with Sun Records (alongside Elvis Presley), his astounding rise to stardom, and his well-known battles with pills and the law. Vivian decided that, near the end of her life and with backing from Johnny, she should tell the whole story, even the parts at odds with the iconic Cash family image such as Johnny's drug problems; Vivian's confrontation with June Carter about her affair with Johnny and, most sensationally, the Cash family secret of June's lifelong addiction to drugs and the events leading up to her death. Also revealed are unpublished love letters between the couple, family photographs and artefacts. I Walked the Line is a powerful memoir of joy and happiness, injustice and triumph and is an essential read for all Cash fans.

Author : Holly Gleason
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477314906

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Woman Walk the Line by Holly Gleason Pdf

Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:551859225

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I Walk the Line by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Mason
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0099557932

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Walk the Lines by Mark Mason Pdf

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on the way. In a story packed with historical trivia, personal musings and eavesdropped conversations, Mark learns how to get the best gossip in the City, where to find a pint at 7am, and why the Bank of England won't let you join the M11 northbound at Junction 5. He has an East End cup of tea with the Krays' official biographer, discovers what cabbies mean by 'on the cotton', and meets the Archers star who was the voice of 'Mind the Gap'. Over the course of several hundred miles, Mark contemplates London's contradictions as well as its charms. He gains insights into our fascination with maps and sees how walking changes our view of the world. Above all, in this love letter to a complicated friend, he celebrates the sights, sounds and soul of the greatest city on earth.

Author : Vivian Cash,Ann Sharpsteen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416532958

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I Walked the Line by Vivian Cash,Ann Sharpsteen Pdf

This elegant, revealing, and powerful memoir of Vivian Cash, Johnny Cash's first wife of 12 years and the mother of his four daughters, features shocking new revelations, untold stories, and never-before-seen photos of the couple's life together. 16 pages of b&w photographs.

Author : John Carter Cash
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418567668

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Anchored In Love by John Carter Cash Pdf

June Carter was born in the rugged mountains of Maces Springs, Virginia, to Ezra and Maybelle Carter, pioneers of country music. On stage from a very young age, June found her niche in the spotlight with her vivacious personality and down-home sense of humor. Her confidence and spirit were what attracted Johnny Cash to her in the late 1950s. On the road together, they quickly bonded. June was his helpmate and closest companion. They were married for forty years, through addiction and success, tragedy and triumph. Anchored in Love is an inside look into the life of June Carter Cash, through the eyes of her only child with Johnny Cash-John Carter Cash. With skillful prose, he reveals new information about the legendary woman through his tender memories and heartwarming stories.

Author : Sterling Children's Staff,Sterling Childrens
Publisher : Sterling Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1454920831

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A Line Is a Dot That Went for a Walk by Sterling Children's Staff,Sterling Childrens Pdf

Inspired by the Paul Klee quote, this unconventional coloring book encourages kids to think creatively and draw freely to produce their own brand of imaginative art. Quirky prompts ask children to express themselves by making a page "sad" or "excited," or to "hold your pencil between your toes and draw." Loose illustrations and partially done doodles start them off and provide hours of fun.

Author : Ana Ibarra,Marc Valli
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1780671105

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Walk the Line by Ana Ibarra,Marc Valli Pdf

Drawing has always been a fundamental skill and good drawing skills allowed artists to grasp the reality around them. At the turn of the millennium, however, the general impression was that with the wide availability of computers, scanners, digital cameras and image software, drawing would dwindle into a marginal activity. In fact, the opposite happened: the enthusiasm for digital imagery died down and the ability to draw has become a treasured skill. In the art world, attitudes to drawing have also changed. Drawing became a way of making a statement as an artist, of showing masterly skill – something that up to then had been most commonly associated with painting. After centuries in the shadow of its more illustrious fine art relatives, drawing started to be appreciated for its own sake, as an art discipline, an end in itself, an art form. Walk the Line: The Art of Drawing includes interviews with the international selection of artists, as well as examples of their work. It will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art and illustration.

Author : David Quammen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:46358194

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To Walk the Line by David Quammen Pdf

Author : Marshall Grant,Chris Zar
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1581825102

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I was There when it Happened by Marshall Grant,Chris Zar Pdf

Beginning with Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins's initial introductions to Johnny Cash and the jam sessions that followed, readers will marvel at how their musical inabilities drove these three men to musical greatness. From Grant's humorous story of placing adhesive tape on his bass to learn the notes prior to landing their Sun Records recording contract and witnessing Johnny write I Walk the Line, to his experience of playing with Cash at Folsom Prison, readers are taken backstage into Cash's inner circle.

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474609074

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Walking the Great North Line by Robert Twigger Pdf

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a 'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of the edgelands he is journeying through.

Author : Michael Stewart Foley
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541699564

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Citizen Cash by Michael Stewart Foley Pdf

A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States, even if he wasn’t recognized for it in his own lifetime, or since his death in 2003. Then and now, people have misread Cash’s politics, usually accepting the idea of him as a “walking contradiction.” Cash didn’t fit into easy political categories—liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, hawk or dove. Like most people, Cash’s politics were remarkably consistent in that they were based not on ideology or scripts but on empathy—emotion, instinct, and identification. Drawing on untapped archives and new research on social movements and grassroots activism, Citizen Cash offers a major reassessment of a legendary figure.

Author : Jo Fernihough
Publisher : LOM ART
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 191055216X

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A Line Is a Dot That Went for a Walk by Jo Fernihough Pdf

Inspired by the Paul Klee quote, this is an unconventional adult drawing book, in which readers are encouraged to think outside the box in terms of making drawings and art

Author : Johnny Cash
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060727536

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Cash by Johnny Cash Pdf

He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash's life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly "walked the line."

Author : Linda Sue Park
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547251271

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A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Pdf

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.