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Johnny Cash's Ojai Sojourn with Mark Lewis
The film "Walk the Line" won Oscars for both its leads, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, as it chronicled a dark period in the Man in Black's life. The film doesn't mention Ojai by name, but he lived five years in the Ojai Valley, high above Casitas Springs. I spend an hour talking with the superb writer Mark Lewis about Cash's many Ojai stories, starting fires in the Sespe, drinking at the Inn, getting drunk with Sheb Woolley of "Purple People Eater" fame.
Meanwhile, we unravel another strange strand of Ojai lore; about how Cash left the Ojai Valley to make the famous "Live at Folsom…
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