{"id":4180,"date":"2013-12-12T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2013-12-12T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:33:14","slug":"johnny-cash-the-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Cash & the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Garrett alerted me to a recent interview of Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter, at Garden & Gun<\/em><\/a>. Towards the end of the interview she is asked about her favorite memories of her dad, and I was taken with the place of the Psalms. Here is that part of the interview:<\/p>\n

Your dad has been gone ten years now. What\u2019s one of your favorite memories?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When his eyesight was about gone, I would read the Bible to him, mostly the Psalms and the Book of Job. He loved it because he was such a great reader his whole life, and he couldn\u2019t read anymore. His books were all around him in his study, and I remember he said, \u201cThis is a room full of regrets now.\u201d It just broke my heart. So I would go down to Nashville and read to him, and then I would read to him on the phone when I was back in New York. One time, we had arranged a phone time to read the Psalms, and I was up at my country house in upstate New York. I looked all around, and I had no Bible. I went, \u201cOh, my God, he\u2019s going to be so disappointed.\u201d And he called, and I said, \u201cDad, I don\u2019t have a Bible. I only have Shakespeare.\u201d He went, \u201cHmmm, Shakespeare, huh? Let\u2019s just let it go until you get back to the city.\u201d [Laughter.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Garrett alerted me to a recent interview of Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter, at Garden & Gun. Towards the end of the interview she is asked about her favorite memories of her dad, and I was taken with the place of the Psalms. Here is that part of the interview: Your dad has been …<\/p>\n

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