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Hurt: Remembering Johnny Cash

by Michael Buffalo Smith
September 2003

During the last several years of his life Johnny Cash was in severe pain 24 hours a day. For many men it would have meant retiring from the spotlight and into seclusion, popping pills to ease the pain and hiding from the very legacy he had created for himself. But not Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash was the toughest son of a bitch I have ever seen. He faced the pain, took it...