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June review – country music legend who was much more than Johnny Cash’s wife
Documentary on June Carter Cash who was born into music royalty and a tough, funny trailblazer star – and the co-writer of Ring of Fire
As Reese Witherspoon, who portrayed her in the movie Walk the Line, points out – still indignant – it was June who wrote Ring of Fire (with Merle Kilgore), one of Cash’s most famous songs. June’s daughter rolls her eyes at the way her ambitious firecracker mum walked around telling everyone she was happy being Mrs Johnny Cash after they got married; the truth was more complicated. In the end, the best insights into the couple and their long, loving but complex and sometimes painful marriage come from their family, not the county music walk of fame crowd.
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