Marshall Grant

[jrome]

I was talking with Marshall Grant today about the new movie, "Walk the Line," and about the new book he has coming out in April '06. Marshall helped with some of the history in the movie. He was featured on the CMT segment of "The Making of Walk the Line." He was very happy with the way the movie portrayed Johnny Cash, even though it is hard to tell every thing that happened in his life in two hours. We talked about the good ole days with Johnny and some of the others in the show. I told him that I thought the woman that played Mother Maybelle nailed her part and Marshall agreed. In one segment of the movie, they showed Marshall making a bomb and then placing it in a tree and watching it blow up. I wish that they had shown Marshall with his boat racing cannon. Marshall, John, and Luther would fire the cannon off while on tour in the early days. Below, you will find the April 1965 issue of "The World of Boat Racing" with an article on Johnny Cash, Marshall Grant and Dick Pond.