Jody Rosen at Slate.com has written an interesting piece about the last Johnny Cash records, concerning their somewhat kitschy (but very traditional for country music) use of DEATH, DEATH, DEATH.   It has always seemed a bit over the top to me, but Jody is the first person I have seen to point it out.   I particularly liked the references to all the other stuff Johnny did (like having the Monkees on his TV show) before he DESCENDED (ASCENDED) into ultimate BLACKNESS........

yours,

Peter T.