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Cash is seen he; performing at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas. By Jim Abbott KRT CAMPUS Somehow, it’s hard to imag ine that death finally managed to wrap its arms around Johnny Cash. The Man in Black, who died Friday at 71 from compli cations related to diabetes, just carried himself with that kind of presence. It all started with that voice. His sonorous baritone, qua vering with a mixture of deter mination and vulnerability, delivered classic country songs such as "I Walk the Line," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Cry, Cry, Cry" with cinematic scope. His powerful personality transcended labels and genera tions, whether it was introduc ing Bob Dylan to prime-time TV audiences in the 1960s or interpreting Nine Inch Nails to establish his credibility on MTV. "Johnny Cash is Johnny Cash, and that’s the highest praise you can give a guy," leg endary Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who died earlier this summer, told the Orlando Sentinel last year. "To be dis tinctive." Beyond the music. Cash's combination of an independent mind, strong religious convic tions and destructive human shortcomings made him a character with competing spir itual and earthly sides. "I believe what I say, but that don't necessarily make me right," the singer told Rolling Stone in 2000. "There's noth ing hypocritical about it. There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all." Like the faces on Mount Rushmore or Elvis Presley, the gravelly voiced country star is being remembered today as a uniquely American icon. "He sang about people who were oppressed, poor people, working people, social caus es," said Randy Noles, author of "Orange Blossom Boys," a historical book about "The Orange Blossom Special," one of the songs that Cash helped make famous. "He wasn't like any country-western singer I'd ever heard before." Noles, 48, discovered Cash on the 1960s TV variety show the singer hosted on ABC. He had tuned in to see folksinger Bob Dylan, but was surprised to be mesmerized by Cash instead. "Dylan was the coolest thing I could imagine, but when I watched the show it turned out it wasn't Bob Dylan that impressed me, it was Cash. The show was so raw and dark and real. It was very stark and he was very stark, like somebody reached through the black-and-white TV set, grabbed me by the col lar and said, ‘You have to watch this.'" Cash's death comes after the loss of his second wife and soulmate June Carter Cash, who died at 73 on May 15 after a critical illness following heart valve surgery. Those close to the couple say her death was a blow for Cash. It was June Carter Cash who saved her husband's life and career in the late 1960s, when his music was going off the tracks because of drug addiction and irrational out bursts. In a famous incident, he once kicked out the footlights on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. "This is the first time I've been here without my baby," Cash said. "The pain of a loss like that, it's just indescribable. But this is part of the healing process for me. And I know June is here with us, because she loved this place and she loved all of you." He was born Feb. 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Ark. His father, Ray, was a sawmill and rail way worker who moved the family to Dyess, Ark., to work as part of a federal project to reclaim swampland near the Mississippi River. The family's rugged rural existence would become the fodder for several memorable songs. Cash sang about a child hood memory in the 1959 hit "Five Feet High and Risin'," as well as "Pickin' Time," "Christmas As I Knew It" and "Cisco Clifton's Filling Station." By the time he was a teen, he was writing his own songs, inspired by the country music he heard on the radio. While he was in high school, he sang on the Arkansas radio station KLCN. Later, he moved to Octroi: to work briefly in an auto far tory before enlisting in the mi itary as a radio operator ii Germany during the Kora War. After the war, Cash vss selling washing machines in Memphis, Tenn., when he nervously approached Phillips for an audition at Sun Record: "You could tell he wass very internal guy," Phillip said last year. "You could tel he was a person who was ver ; earthy in a way, yet highly relif gious. I don't know \f a wore from the Bible was spokm Iwl you could tell he was a person of conviction. He had this feel ing about him." "I told him, l know one thing, if I don't get something out of you, it will be my fault because that voice is distinc tive.'" Accompanied by tk Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins and upriglt bassist Marshall Grant, Cast recorded classic songs wit Phillips: "Cry, Cry, Cry"; "Bis River"; and "I Walk the Line. In the 1960s, Cash was among the few in Nashvilletc openly embrace a scruff- looking folksinger named Bot Dylan, inviting him to appeal on his weekly TV variet) series and singing harmony oi "Girl From the North Country on Dylan's "Nashville Skyline." He inspired iconoclastic outlaws such as Willie Nelson Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson to push tlif boundaries of the studio gloss that dominated country music until the 1970s. NEWS IN BRIEF Cattle prices soar to heights unseen in more than a decade HOUSTON (AP) — Cattle prices are soaring to levels not seen in at least a decade after herds were trimmed due to drought, demand grew and a mad cow disease outbreak in Canada com bined to mean more bucks for the beef. “We just kind of pinch ourselves each day,” Matt Brockman, executive vice president of the Fort Worth-based Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers, said of the high prices after nearly a decade of depressed prices, decreased demand and drought. “It certainly is a welcome reprieve.” Brockman said the drought and previously low prices caused Texas cattle raisers to liqui date their herds and even forced some to leavt the business. 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