The JC legacy

Rating: 7/10 (5 May 2007)

I did like Johnny Cash and his music and I did enjoy this bio-pic which focused on JC's divorce, recovery from addiction and second marriage to June Carter. I was disappointed that the JC story omitted a significant part of JC's career: his friendship with Richard Nixon which catapulted JC out of regional country western onto the rock and roll stations and the mainstream pop chart.
Politics do blend interesting harmonies.
JC's WELFARE CADDALLAC made JC a favorite at the Nixon white House where JC was often invited. Long before the fall of Nixon, Cash and Nixon parted ways when Cash started singing tunes with a more liberal flavor.
This aspect of the JC legacy was entirely ignored in the story. Yet I find it the most interesting facet of Cash's career.
There is one item I do note. Frankly the alleged controversy over Cash's Huntsville concert. JC is supposedly told by his manager that his church going audience would not approve of a prison concert.
Regrettably much of the stories about Christians are written by other who do not understand them. Christianity was founded by a prisoner who walked the line.