If you have not seen it, Watch Walk The Line movie. Pretty darn good!
Walk the Line (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes
Walk the Line (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes
Hello.......I'm Johnny Cash
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Marshwheeling
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My favorite Johnny Cash song has to be the one I named my chili after, RING OF FIRE.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY[/ame]
Some of his best work came toward the end of his life in six albums of cover tunes. One of the best:
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI[/ame]
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY[/ame]
Some of his best work came toward the end of his life in six albums of cover tunes. One of the best:
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI[/ame]
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Jack Flash
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I wasn't watching television back then so it's all new to me. He had some great musical guests, including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and so forth.
I like "One More Ride" but I think my favorite is a very simple gentle one, "Supper Time".
I like "One More Ride" but I think my favorite is a very simple gentle one, "Supper Time".
meaneyedcatz
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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdIrGR3vhs&feature=share[/ame]
I just love his latest version of give my love to rose. With his older voice it’s sounds as if he’s lived the song.
I just love his latest version of give my love to rose. With his older voice it’s sounds as if he’s lived the song.
Absalom
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I’m not much into spiritually-themed songs, but Johnny Cash had a way to give you goosebumps.
Of course the original music video, produced in the early 1990s, is more a trip down memory lane than prophecy if you’re old enough, and puts the whole thing into the “A bit premature” department. Still good, though.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyujOSEexM[/ame]
Of course the original music video, produced in the early 1990s, is more a trip down memory lane than prophecy if you’re old enough, and puts the whole thing into the “A bit premature” department. Still good, though.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyujOSEexM[/ame]
ggibson511960
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Earl Scruggs & Friends
If you're a Cash fanatic you need a copy of Earl Scruggs & Friends, just about my favorite country album, a Grammy winner. There is a track of "Passin' Through", a duet with Don Henley and Earl Scruggs banjo accompaniment. It will give you chills as Johnny talks his way through a verse as only he can.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KP6kI1ZnM[/ame]
If you're a Cash fanatic you need a copy of Earl Scruggs & Friends, just about my favorite country album, a Grammy winner. There is a track of "Passin' Through", a duet with Don Henley and Earl Scruggs banjo accompaniment. It will give you chills as Johnny talks his way through a verse as only he can.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KP6kI1ZnM[/ame]
Valmet
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Recently finished watching Ken Burns’ documentary on country music and Cash was featured heavily (deservedly so). I love some classic country
Dad had a lot of his early stuff, some from the Rockabilly years.
Dad really loved this one:
(clip from American Bandstand, intro by Dick Clark, 1958)
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exve40nNg-M[/ame]
I always liked this one:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTBerbcYl4[/ame]
Dad really loved this one:
(clip from American Bandstand, intro by Dick Clark, 1958)
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exve40nNg-M[/ame]
I always liked this one:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTBerbcYl4[/ame]
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Haven't seen it since it aired originally, but my family used to watch his show every time it was on.
Hee-Haw too.
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Walter Rego
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How about Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Eric Clapton ?
Fast forward to 4:09. Clapton is clearly in awe. And Carl Perkins has a horrible toupee.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1BFtWPbX4[/ame]
Fast forward to 4:09. Clapton is clearly in awe. And Carl Perkins has a horrible toupee.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1BFtWPbX4[/ame]
Anybody remember the controversy about him announcing the birth of his son? The network execs didn't want him to announce it - because it would take away from his heart-throb image. So he changed his standard opening line of the show from
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"
to
"Hello, I'm Johnny Carter Cash's daddy"
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"
to
"Hello, I'm Johnny Carter Cash's daddy"
Yes, I remember that clearly.
Douglas Jr.
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Did you notice Clapton chatting with Perkins about his playing right after the song's ending? Great detail.
My favourite clip of him at his show was this beatiful meeting with Louis Armstrong, which I think it was the last Satchmo's appearence on TV:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_KK7OKcx7Q"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_KK7OKcx7Q[/ame]
Seamus O'Caiside
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Oh yes, I was watching him on TV the night he did that live with a stuff-eating grin on his face! However, I always thought that he said the baby's name was John Carter Cash, not Johnny Carter Cash.
You may be right - my quote might not be correct word-for-word.
I remember watching his live from Folsom prison. My mom was a huge JC fan - I was born in 61 so here interest in him got me hooked. He was a true master of his craft. He had a way of connecting with the rest of us that is lost in the modern era of music. He was the vessel through which all of our every day lives were memorialized, celebrated and lamented in a way we loved.
Delta Expatriate
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Beginning around 1968-69, when I was in high school, I became a Johnny Cash fan, and have remained so. I had the opportunity to see the Beatles in concert in the mid-60s (on their 2d American tour) and Elvis in concert in 1974. Both of these concerts were in the old Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis (the Elvis concert was much better than the Beatles concert, in my opinion). In retrospect, I would have swapped them both to have seen Johnny Cash live in Concert.
I entered Mississippi State University as a freshman in the fall of 1969. The year before (1968-1969 academic year) Johnny Cash appeared in a concert at the University, at which he told the crowd a record would be coming out about his getting thrown in jail after a prior concert a few years earlier (May of 1965, I think). That record was "Starkville City Jail" - not one of his better known songs - I think it may have been the flip side of "A boy named Sue." Actually, he spent the night in the Oktibbeha County Jail. I have also read that he kicked the door of the cell, and then appeared the next night up the road at ole miss for a concert with a cast on that foot. That night in jail was one of two or three times he was thrown in jail. A few years ago, the "Johnny Cash Flower-picking Festival" was held in Starkville, and the city issued a ceremonial pardon (posthumously).
I had the opportunity to visit the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville back in 2016, and very much enjoyed the visit. He was one of greatest performing musicians ever.
I entered Mississippi State University as a freshman in the fall of 1969. The year before (1968-1969 academic year) Johnny Cash appeared in a concert at the University, at which he told the crowd a record would be coming out about his getting thrown in jail after a prior concert a few years earlier (May of 1965, I think). That record was "Starkville City Jail" - not one of his better known songs - I think it may have been the flip side of "A boy named Sue." Actually, he spent the night in the Oktibbeha County Jail. I have also read that he kicked the door of the cell, and then appeared the next night up the road at ole miss for a concert with a cast on that foot. That night in jail was one of two or three times he was thrown in jail. A few years ago, the "Johnny Cash Flower-picking Festival" was held in Starkville, and the city issued a ceremonial pardon (posthumously).
I had the opportunity to visit the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville back in 2016, and very much enjoyed the visit. He was one of greatest performing musicians ever.
