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Johnny of the cross.(Johnny Cash)
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In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a legend only in death--as if death accomplishes for a musician all that he was unable to do for himself in life. Legends are often made in the manner of their death--in a helicopter crash, say, or collapsed on the bathroom floor. But Johnny Cash's death at seventy-one on September 12 was decidedly un-legend-like: silent, slow, and unspectacular. Yet "legend" seems, if anything, not big enough a word to describe Johnny Cash.
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MOMUS: FOLK MUSIC WITH BYTE
The Boston Globe
; ... Galapagos Islands and finding them. There was proof all around." Momus translates his proof into a collection of songs that cross Johnny Cash with Atari 2600 sound effects. "Folktronic" is authentic mountain music as seen through Flash animation-colored glasses ...
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