Read a classic Johnny Cash interview

Johnny Cash would have turned 80 this week – so here's a 1971 trip to Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism, where Philip Norman enters House of CashThe heavy carved front door into House of Cash, Johnny Cash's state mansion, in Madison, Tennessee, swung inward to reveal blinding sunshine and the awe-struck face of a tourist. His eyes grew wider still as he surveyed the sumptuous foyer, its heavy brocades, its gilded Tennessean Louis XIV furniture, its massi...

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