The Man Who Carried Cash

Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon

Julie Chadwick

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781459737235
• eBook ISBN:
  9781459737259
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

The unlikely, rocky relationship between an American country superstar and his straightlaced Canadian manager. Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. The Man Who Carried Cash chronicles a relationship that was both volatile and affectionate between Johnny Cash and his manager, Saul Holiff. From roadside taverns to the roaring crowds at Madison Square Garden, from wrecked cars and jail cells all the way to the White House, the story of Johnny and Saul is a portrait of two men from different worlds who were more alike than either cared to admit. Saul handled the bookings and the no-shows, the divorce and the record deals, drugs, overdoses, and arrests. He was there for the absolute worst of times, but also for the best: Carnegie Hall, Folsom Prison, "A Boy Named Sue, " and Cash's hit television series. But in 1973, at the zenith of Cash's career, Saul quit. Until now, no one knew why.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Prologue
• 1. The White Coat
• 2. “Showbiz Had to Be My Life”
• 3. When Saul Met Johnny
• 4. The Singin’ Storyteller
• 5. Carnegie Hall and June Carter
• 6. “My Career Is Zooming”
• 7. The Flames Went Higher
• 8. One Hundred Percent Top Billing
• 9. “Saul, Help Me!”
• 10. Carrying Cash
• 11. The Proposal
• 12. The Crash
• 13. Camelot, Nixon, and the Fairy Tale That Wasn’t
• 14. From Jails to Jesus
• 15. The Richest Man in the Cemetery
• 16. The Gospel Road
• 17. The Wisest Man I Know
• 18. Cinnamon Hill
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Image Credits
• Back Cover