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Title: Johnny Cash – Hymns From The Heart
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1962, Country, Gospel Country, Kingsland, Arkansas
Matrix #: CL 1722
Condition: EX
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: Cash’s faith records were tied to real instability; by the decade’s middle he was deep in amphetamine addiction and living hard on the road.
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Political Science: Gospel let Cash bring working-class Southern Christianity into the mainstream without fully separating it from his outlaw image.
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Media Narrative: Religious albums were often treated as side projects, but for Cash they were central to how he explained himself to the public.