Johnny Cash close-up The Man Comes Around music homage Old Tucson AZ
by David Lee Guss
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Johnny Cash close-up The Man Comes Around music homage Old Tucson AZ
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The apocalyptic song "The Man Comes Around" was one of last songs Johnny Cash wrote. He credited his wife June Carter and his religious faith as helping him to overcome his drug addiction and alcoholism. This song refers to the Second Coming of Christ as mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The Man Comes Around is the title track on his fourth album in his American series, released in 2002. The next track "Hurt," with the subsequent video, is almost too painful to watch. An obviously dying Johnny is contrasted with footage of him in his prime.
The same technique was used at the beginning of John Wayne's final film "The Shootist," as an opening credit montage has scenes, as a gunslinger, lifted from his better known Westerns.
In the same year as this was taken (1971) writer Dorothy Gallagher, in a Redbook magazine article, shrewdly observed that Johnny's face is "interchangeable" with the poor Southern whites photographed by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange in the Great Depression of the 1930's. (Johnny's formative years were spent in Arkansas in that time frame. He was born into sharecropper poverty in 1932 and named J.R.) Both those classic '30's faces and Johnny's are "closed, wary, prideful," according to Gallagher.
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February 19th, 2013
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