ABSTRACT
Cash's own disadvantages were seen to have uniquely qualified him to be, as singer Kris Kristofferson told both TV Guide and People, "a champion for people who didn't have one," a spokesman for "the underdogs, the downtrodden, the prisoners, the poor" (Man in Black, 2003, p. 43; Smolowe & Dougherty, 2003, p. 82). In Rolling Stone Bob Dylan claimed: "If we want to know what it means to be mortal, we need look no further than the Man in Black. Blessed with a profound imagination, he used the gift to express all the various lost causes of the human soul" (Remembering Johnny, 2003, p. 74).
