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‘The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash’ Review: Making a Man Out of The Myth

Written by Valerie Ettenhofer

Oct 18, 2019
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“People want their myths,” Roseanne Cash says late in The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, and it’s true. The late Man in Black has been immortalized several times before, most notably in the 2005 Oscar-winning biopic Walk the Line, most recently in Ken Burns’ Country Music docuseries, and in at least two other feature-length documentaries.

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