
Johnny Cash
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
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Johnny Cash - I Will Dress in the Goth and I Will Sing
Johnny Depp's first wife Vivian was discovered to be mixed race in 1965. The family received death threats and white supremacists organized a boycott of his records. He hired a lawyer, threatened to sue anyone alleging Vivian was black and had her genealogy traced professionally. Once he'd proven she was Caucasian, he was booked to play in the south again. But why did he feel the need to deny she was black so vehemently when he was doing so many other proactive things like recording in Tennessee selling record? We went digging for a bit of proof about whether there might be a disconnect between what he was performing and what he was thinking. And then there is a twist in this title, which
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