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He began as a barefoot farm boy in Arkansas, bent over cotton rows, singing just to survive the day. The night his brother died, something inside him shattered\u2014and hardened. That wound never closed; it simply found a voice. In every hymn, prison ballad, and love song, you can hear the same trembling core: a man trying to bargain with fate, with God, with himself.<\/p>\n

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Addiction nearly swallowed him, but love pulled him back\u2014love for a woman who refused to give up on him, and love for the broken people he saw in cells, in factories, in forgotten towns. He sang to them because he was one of them. When Johnny Cash finally left this world, it wasn\u2019t the charts that proved his greatness. It was the way his scars turned into a shelter for millions of wounded hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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