Jenny And Jawbone
Stan has struck JBA’s first deal with vibrant independent music publisher Jawbone Press.
Jawbone have signed acclaimed music biographer Graeme Thomson to write on an over-looked period in the otherwise well-documented life of Johnny Cash.
Dumped in 1986 by CBS, his record company of nearly 30 years, one of Cash’s last singles for the label had been ‘The Chicken In Black’ – with the great man appearing in the video as a superhero fowl, dressed in cape, yellow shirt and tights. The Legend and The Man had gone their separate ways. At the age of 60, his European tour featured just one UK performance: at Butlins Southcoast World in Bognor Regis. There was no convoy of breathless broadsheet hacks rushing to cover it.
Less than two years later; December 1993. Cash is playing the Viper Rooms on Sunset Boulevard in front of 150 of the hippest people in America. He is introduced on stage by Johnny Depp. The audience includes Sean Penn, Juliette Lewis and assorted Red Hot Chilli Peppers; they cheer him to the rafters for the full ninety minutes. His big bass baritone gets a whole song to itself on Zooropa, the new U2 album, while he has just completed his landmark ‘American Recordings’. From thereon, until his death in 2003 (and beyond), Cash was the epitome of hip. Big Daddy cool. What happened?
The Resurrection Of Johnny Cash, set for publication in early 2011, will tell the story of perhaps the most remarkable turnaround in musical history.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 - 01:43 PM