[ch.] 1. Come home, 1932-1955 -- 1. Deliverance -- 2. Guilt -- 3. Dreams -- 4. Memphis -- [ch.] 2. A fiery ring, 1956-1957 -- 5. Fame -- 6. California -- 7. J.R ...

Nobody who heard the rich timbre of Johnny Cash’s baritone voice could delete it from the sound track of the brain; nobody who paid attention to his arresting lyrics could deny their rhythmic poetry.

Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, dubbed “The Mother Church of Country Music” and “The Carnegie Hall of the South,” famously hosted the Grand Ole Opry for decades. But between between 1969 and 1971, the ...