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Johnny Cash

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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He's Coming Down to Your Level

He believed in rehabilitation and redemption because he had received them himself. He was fascinated by convicts to the point where he recorded two of his most successful albums while performing for inmates. In 1964, he released Bitter Tears, an album about atrocities suffered by Native Americans and no one wanted to hear it. His record company wouldn't promote it. Radio stations banned it. There's a lot of money where your mouth is rather than virtue signaling in his work. And was it both in false and prison?

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