An Evening of Trains, Jesus, and Murder: Part 4, Hurt

Below is our final clip from our evening at Host this summer, where I shared reflections from my latest book Trains, Jesus and Murder: The Gospel According to Johnny Cash and David Benjamin Blower played Cash covers.

In the video below we turn to the final creative years of Cash's life, his work with Rick Rubin and the American Recordings albums. The song I focus on is "Hurt," Cash's iconic cover of Trent Reznor's song, written by Reznor in the midst of his own heroin addiction:



One more time, thank you to Paul Milbank, the curator of Host, for capturing the evening on film. I hope you've enjoyed this week sharing in our evening of Trains, Jesus and Murder: The Gospel According to Johnny Cash.