TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1958)

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x-«$ ' 1 m ■ i 1 m A rt& S^gV N Wanderihg Minstrel Johnny Cash was born an Arkansas traveler, a troubadour of the lonesome road. But his heart's in Memphis with the girl who inspires his songs By LILLA ANDERSON Johnny CASH has the Big River blues in his voice and the sound of the prairie wind. He's the story-telling, wandering man, today's version of the medieval troubadours who roved from place to place, giving back in song the experiences and emotions they had known or seen. True, there are surface changes. Where yesterday's wandering minstrel depended on his own weary feet for transportation, Johnny does his well-booked wanderings by Cadillac. And the huge auditoriums where he draws sell-Out crowds would dwarf a castle's great hall. But the theme of loneliness and love remains unchanged in its appeal down through the centuries. Where once Elizabethan page boys and pretty young ladies-in-waiting gathered around to dig "Barbara Allen," today's teenagers put Johnny's up-dated, {Continued on page 74) 26