Johnny Cash: LIFE’s Best Photos - Photo Gallery - LIFE

Nov. 21, 1969: The cover of LIFE magazine features Johnny Cash, who’d just released his “At San Quentin,” his second live album recorded before inmates (the first, “At Folsom Prison,” was his breakthrough). Wrote LIFE of the king of country music, “He has been fascinated by railroads since childhood when his father would hop freights to look for work.”

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Debra Winger: Why the star of ‘An Officer & A Gentleman’ is such an outrageous free spirit.

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