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Title: Johnny Cash - Hymns By Johnny Cash
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1959, Country, Gospel Country, Kingsland, Arkansas
Matrix #: CL 1284
Condition: EX
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Cash’s faith records sat beside a private slide into pills and exhaustion, as nonstop touring was already wearing down his life by the late 1950s.
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Political Science: Gospel let Cash bring rural Protestant identity into mainstream pop without separating it from his working-class image.
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Media Narrative: Religious albums were often treated as side work, but for Cash they were central to how he explained himself to the public.