Legendary country singer and songwriter Johnny Cash was just beginning to break through to a new level of mainstream recognition with the success of his classic {^Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison} album when filmmaker Robert Elfstrom spent several months on the road with Cash, attempting to capture both the public and private sides of the man. Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music was the result, a profile of the artist which includes visits to the sharecropping farms where Cash spent his childhood; a recording session with Cash and Bob Dylan; reminiscences of growing up in the rural South from Johnny and his friend Carl Perkins; concerts in penitentiaries and Indian reservations; Cash bantering with his wife, June Carter Cash, and reuniting with his family; and performances of a number of his best-known songs. Originally produced for British television, Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music pleased Cash enough that he later hired director Elfstrom to helm his film about Jesus Christ in the Holy Lands, The Gospel Road. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi