The Resurrection of Johnny Cash: Hurt Redemption, and American Recordings

The Resurrection of Johnny Cash tells the story of perhaps the most remarkable turnaround in musical history. As well as acknowledging Cash's drug,drink, and religious travails in the fifties and sixties, the book digs much deeper, focusing on a lesser known but no less remarkable period of his life: the inglorious post-1970 fall and the almost biblical rebirth of his later years. Homing in on the 10-year period between 1986 and 1995, The Resurrection of Johnny Cash, drawing on new and exclusive interviews with Cash's family, friends, and collaborators, tells in detail the story of Cash's humiliating fall from grace and his unprecedented revival, his struggle with a cruel variety of illnesses, his ongoing battles with addiction, his search to find direction in his career, his eventual rebirth as both an artist and a man, and his hugely influential legacy.

Graeme Thomson is the author of three acclaimed biographies of elusive, often difficult musicians: Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, and Kate Bush. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and three children.