![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. (A brief flash-forward to Cash in his latter years, choosing repertoire for his American Recordings, forms a handsome buffer between the two frames’ closing parentheses.) The book covers Cash’s earlier life, from Depression-era childhood to the Folsom performance, but since the only major development of his career missed is his gospel period, it satisfies pretty keenly, not least because Kleist, whose style suggests Will Eisner heavily affected by film-noir lighting and composition, segues often and beautifully between the life of the man and the lives in his songs. The inner frame homes in on the book’s ostensible narrator, Folsom inmate Glen Sherley, whose song “Greystone Chapel” Cash added at the last minute to his famous 1968 recorded performance at the prison. ![]() The outer frame is provided by the scenarios of two lowering country perennials, Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” which Kleist visualizes so powerfully that the curiously off versions of the songs’ lyrics (perhaps re-Englished from German translations) can almost be overlooked. Babys in Black: The Story of Astrid Kirchherr & Stuart Sutcliffe. *Starred Review* Kleist double-frames his starkly drawn, fluidly imagined graphic biography, the winner of three European awards, of country-music star Cash. ![]()
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