Peter Lewry

Peter Lewry is a British-born author with several books to his credit, including the prize-nominated Johnny Cash Chronicle-I’ve Been Everywhere. A leading authority on the country music legend, he first heard Johnny Cash’s music back in the late sixties. He bought his first Cash album, At San Quentin, in 1970 and has followed his career closely ever since. He started the Johnny Cash fanzine back in 1994 and in March 2007 celebrated it's fiftieth issue. The Man in Black website, set up to complement the fanzine, won the music lover category at the ntl: Best Of British Broadband Awards in 2004. Peter received his award from radio and television presenter Neil Fox at a prestigious awards dinner at the renowned celebrity haunt The Ivy in London. The website was reviewed in MOJO magazine in 2009 who wrote, 'Peter Lewry, who is to Johnny Cash what Mark Lewisohn is to The Beatles, runs an award-winning website dedicated to the Man in Black at www.johnnycashfanzine.com/ A well-constructed, information-led affair, it acts as an on-line supplement to Lewry's fanzine. For anyone seriously getting involved in a Cash project, it's definitely the place to start. He has also worked on a number of Cash projects including CD compilations (the recently released Readers Digest set The Great Seventies Recordings and Bear Family Records Johnny Cash: The Outtakes), liner notes, various magazine articles and also worked with the Los Angeles based web design company on the Twentieth Century Fox official Walk The Line website. He was a special guest at the UK launch of the Walk The Line DVD at HMV in Oxford Street, London. His knowledge on Johnny Cash has led to him being called to assist on the research on a number of magazine articles and radio specials. He has been interviewed on local and national radio stations across the UK and has been interviewed by Cash's long-time friend, singer and DJ Johnny Western on his radio show broadcast from Wichita, Kansas. His passion for music spreads far wider than just country music and he has written many articles including in-depth studies on both Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons and French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis for the UK music magazine Record Collector. Peter is also a regular contributor to the Essential Elvis magazine and recent articles have included in-depth studies of Elvis' 1969 Memphis Recordings and his 1973 Stax Sessions. He has recently published his first biography Linda Ronstadt-A Life In Music, as an e-book and also published an updated edition of Johnny Cash-I've Been Everywhere in e-book format.