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In 1955, at the dawn of his long career, Sun Records president Sam Phillips sent Johnny Cash to a nearby photographer, William Speer. Cash was fortunate because Speer was an innovative craftsman, influenced by vintage Hollywood photographers who used light in a dramatic new way. Speer shot photo sessions with Cash, between 1955 and 1958. A couple of images were published in the 1950s, but the rest were stored away ? until now. Realizing that the photos deserved to be seen full size, Bear Family lustrously restored them and packaged them in a 16-page LP-sized hardcover book, accompanied by a one-sided LP of rare live audio from the same era. The other side of the LP is a 3-D engraving of Cash.And so now, eighty years after Johnny Cash was born in rural Arkansas at the height of the Great Depression, we see him in a new light.There are many Johnny Cash collectors, and this is Cash in words, music, and ? above all ? striking unpublished images!
In 1955, at the dawn of his long career, Sun Records president Sam Phillips sent Johnny Cash to a nearby photographer, William Speer. Cash was fortunate because Speer was an innovative craftsman, influenced by vintage Hollywood photographers who used light in a dramatic new way. Speer shot photo sessions with Cash, between 1955 and 1958. A couple of images were published in the 1950s, but the rest were stored away ? until now. Realizing that the photos deserved to be seen full size, Bear Family lustrously restored them and packaged them in a 16-page LP-sized hardcover book, accompanied by a one-sided LP of rare live audio from the same era. The other side of the LP is a 3-D engraving of Cash.And so now, eighty years after Johnny Cash was born in rural Arkansas at the height of the Great Depression, we see him in a new light.There are many Johnny Cash collectors, and this is Cash in words, music, and ? above all ? striking unpublished images!
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Format: CD
Label: IMPORTS
Catalog: BCD17308
Rel. Date: 03/12/2012
UPC: 4000127173089

Unseen Cash From William Speer's Studio [Import]
Artist: Johnny Cash
Format: CD
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. I Don't Have To Look Pretty (To Stay Home And Cry) (single vocal)
2. Stay All Night, Stay A Little Longer
3. There You Go
4. Give My Love To Rose
5. White Silver Sands
6. Home Of The Blues
7. Intro
8. I Got Stripes
9. Pickin' Time 1
10. Ten Years 1
11. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 1
12. Outro

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In 1955, at the dawn of his long career, Sun Records president Sam Phillips sent Johnny Cash to a nearby photographer, William Speer. Cash was fortunate because Speer was an innovative craftsman, influenced by vintage Hollywood photographers who used light in a dramatic new way. Speer shot photo sessions with Cash, between 1955 and 1958. A couple of images were published in the 1950s, but the rest were stored away ? until now. Realizing that the photos deserved to be seen full size, Bear Family lustrously restored them and packaged them in a 16-page LP-sized hardcover book, accompanied by a one-sided LP of rare live audio from the same era. The other side of the LP is a 3-D engraving of Cash.And so now, eighty years after Johnny Cash was born in rural Arkansas at the height of the Great Depression, we see him in a new light.There are many Johnny Cash collectors, and this is Cash in words, music, and ? above all ? striking unpublished images!
        
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