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- ↑ John L. Smith (1 January 1985). The Johnny Cash Discography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-24654-8.
- ↑ Billy Edd Wheeler (2002). Real Country Humor: Jokes from Country Music Personalities. august house. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-87483-652-3.
- ↑ Steve Turner (1 November 2005). The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend. Thomas Nelson Inc. ISBN 978-0-8499-0815-6.
- ↑ "Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison". Discogs . 1968. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
- ↑ John M. Alexander (16 April 2018). The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-61075-628-0.
- ↑ John Morthland (1 June 1984). The best of country music . Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-19192-0.
How else would Cash know that he could sit on a stool with just his acoustic guitar and do "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" and "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart," the two most intentionally silly songs Jack Clement ever wrote, and these ...
- ↑ Cecelia Tichi (1995). Readin' country music: steel guitars, opry stars, and honky tonk bars. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822364252.
