Johnny Cash's environment

JOHNNY CASH’S GOSPEL

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and love. And Mother. And God.

Rural, share cropper post civil war south. Woodie Guthre, Hank Williams sand of the same theme. Kind of like your standard fishing novel. Completely oral tradition. Creates new dialects across history.