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'Just As True': Johnny Cash's Poems Set To Music For New Album

Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, helps to immortalize his father's poems with a new album called Johnny Cash: Forever Words.
<em>Johnny Cash: Forever Words </em>is available now.

When Johnny Cash died almost 15 years ago, he left behind a treasure trove of unpublished poems and handwritten letters. The new album Johnny Cash: Forever Wordsout now, immortalizes those words in music.

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