“Cash would put a lot of his problems into his songs,” Thompson says. Which along with his ability to entertain, is probably another reason why people held him in such high regard. He was also very generous to those he knew, and sometimes those he didn't know. “He was not always nice to people, and was somewhat of a troubled soul.” But even though he may not have been nice, people still stuck around. “He's a very interesting character,” he explains. Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home.” Thus read the lines from Kris Kristofferson's song The Pilgrim, lines that Thompson says go a long way to describing Cash. “He's a walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction. I like to know where the stories come from.” “It's part of what I'm trying to do,” Thompson says. As such, the star of the acoustic tribute show Johnny Cash: In Solitary Confinement sees gaining his veritable PhD in all things Cash as a responsibility that comes with his job. “There are a lot of people that do know a lot of things about Cash,” Thompson says. An enthusiastic student of more than Cash's music, Damien Thompson likes to be the most knowledgeable man in the room about the icon he is portraying. He brings the spirit and life of Johnny Cash to life.
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