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Quiet Mike

The thing about Cash that strikes me most is he walked the walk. Not some made up publicist’s story. He was a real guy that led a real up/down life. Hard to believe he’s been gone almost 20 years. I swear…………

Harrington Richardson: Sans Remorse
Harrington Richardson: Sans Remorse

I like a lot of his stuff. One that always gets me is “Sunday Morning Coming Down.”

Quiet Mike

IMO, the lyrics to “Sunday Mornin’……..” have never been equaled. Check out Kris Kristofferson’s live version as a tribute to “John”. It’s on YouTube.

Harrington Richardson: Sans Remorse
Harrington Richardson: Sans Remorse

Thanks. It sounds like something Kristofferson might have written.

Quiet Mike

It was.

javelin
javelin

Sunday Mornin Coming Down and Hurt both are on one my music playlists– gotta love those mini bluetooth speakers–

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

The song was written by Trent Reznor. JC heard it and liked it and asked to record it. Reznor said he would be honored. Who wouldn’t? Why the downvotes? I love the man in black.

Stucky

“Why the downvotes?”

Because there are too many FUKTARDS on TBP! I would like the addresses of those 3 FUKTARDS so that I could take a shit on their faces.

Rev6
Rev6

My dad and I used to listen to Johnny Cash back in the day when I would help him as he did remodeling on our house, I would sit on the paneling while he sawed it – with a hand saw – songs like “A Boy Named Sue, You Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog,” and of course “Folsum Prison Blues” – which, come to think of it, is my ringtone on my phone – I took care of him the last 10 years of his life through heart surgery and then throat cancer – if you don’t connect it, my handle Rev6 should tell you I believe in Jesus, but my dad would never let me talk about that in those years he was dying………but because we both liked Johnny Cash, I shared that video with him…………….anyway, checking in with TPB and seeing that post, well it brought back a lot of memories…………….he has been gone 6 years now – this song makes me cry………

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

Rev6….

My post I mistakenly placed under Flash……….here’s a version that was deemed ‘to be offensive to some’

flash
flash

Cash was always king.

This takes me back to a time of crew cuts, overalls, Nehi orange and riding in the front seat of my Dad’s ’53 brown and white Bel-Air, with the AM radio tuned to WBML, because it was to stormy to walk to school.
Life was sweet, simple and full of promise,joy and adventure.
Then came Vietnam and nothing would ever be the same again.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

I would hear him on the radio station KFDI, and would get out of bed to go into the kitchen and sit on my dad’s lap while he had his toast and coffee at 4 a.m. I would go back to bed when he left at 5

This one oughtta be paired up with you, Rev6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifaNxq7IG8&t=171s

Dirtperson Steve
Dirtperson Steve

That and his take on Rusty Cage are magnificent. My grandparent were old-school twangy Hee-Haw country. I didn’t care for it then but I have acquired a taste for Mr Cash as I age. Much like my appreciation for good wiskey vs cheap rock-gut when I was a kid.

JimmyTorpedo
JimmyTorpedo

Personal Jesus
Play it on 45 with your finger on the record
Around 40 rpm, about 120 BPM, then mix it with Dire Straights ‘Money for Nothing’ with the vocals/treble turned down.
I know it is a lot to ask but if you have 2 turntables and a mixer, it is a lot of fun.
Johnny did walk the walk, the only man (as far as I know) who had to pay to put out a forest fire (Los Padres 500 acres) .
High on Crank & Ludes and awake for 120 hours,.. He walked the Line and occasionally stumbled over it.
God Bless Johnny Cash (and Stucky)

Llpoh
Llpoh

Without June Johnny would not even have been an asterisk in music history. He would have died very young.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I was never blessed with the honor of working with Johnny personally. I was blessed however with working with one of his biggest fans. On Broadway, Lance Guest was faithful, almost religious, to performing Johnny’s music. He projected that spirit to the best of his abilities to the people who adored Johnny, but never had the chance to experience him.

There was so much depth to JC the man, that transcends the personality ever seen.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load

I believe his life was a result of the blame his father put on him for his brothers death. A heavy burden to carry.

Stucky

One of the best Columbo shows featured Johnny Cash as the protagonist. He murdered his money grubbing wife.

Ginger
Ginger

One of the only episodes where at the end the murderer (Johnny Cash) tells Columbo that he was glad to be caught due to the anguish in his soul.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The beginning of that episode was great. It’s the only columbo I can even remember.

BUCKED/BUY MORE AMMO/BOURBON TOO
BUCKED/BUY MORE AMMO/BOURBON TOO

Anon….as a side note. My Step-Dad worked with Lance and Robert Preston on the “Last Starfighter ” . He and Preston sang together on that set….he said it was a hoot. . My stepdad had a great voice and sang with a lot of stars including Dolly Pardon when filming . His name was Larry Keys .

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s great! Bless him.

Lance spoke highly of Robert on the rare occasions the subject of that movie came up, but was reluctant to expound on the experience. Strangely, it was a subject we sort of avoided out of respect for Lance.
One event in someones life should not define them for eternity, and we honored that.

It’s a great to hear from you that it wasn’t a tall-tale at all. And for whatever it’s worth, Lance is a very proficient guitarist as well. =)

Edit: And Robert was a pretty damn good actor too. Very fond memories. =)

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’m not making fun of this song in particular. But I don’t understand why everyone worships him. It’s like everyone when they gush about Justin Bieber or Breaking Bad or whatever is popular with normies.

He couldn’t sing. I doubt anyone can dispute that. Most of his songs were crap. Judging from his tv show I don’t know if he could play a guitar (I wouldn’t know, but taking your hand off of it with no change in sound is probably a bad sign).

He was a phony. Yeah, he did some drugs. So does every musician and celebrity. He was a christian. So are lots of old ladies.

ILuCO2
ILuCO2

“He couldn’t sing. I doubt anyone can dispute that. Most of his songs were crap.” and ” he was a phony”

Are you kidding me? You sir, are a horses ass. Anonymous of course, you are the horses ass.

Stucky

This is one reason I hate “Anonymous” chickenshit coward posters. If that Faggotfuk would have a unique handle then I could make a mental note to never read another shit post of his (or, hers).

Anonymous
Anonymous

Personally, JC, along with Willie and Waylon are in my go-to lists. However……

So much for critical thinking fukface. He has his opinion, you have yours.
What ever happened to merit over Identity? Clearly you’re working it out still.
Guess you just got your Antifa membership card in the mail, huh?
Go scratch. Hope your new laptop blows it’s wad on your lap.

And, I posted Anon SPECIFICALLY to bust your fucking balls.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Do you really think he could sing? He just talked up and down a bit.

Robin Banks
Robin Banks

The first step, define sing. Trained operatic singers probably think only people in their club can ‘sing.’

Anonymous
Anonymous

I have absolutely no ability. I’m frequently impressed by what other people can do.

Even I can tell that JC (get it? everyone acts like he’s jesus christ) couldn’t sing a lick. Prove me wrong.

He was popular, or promoted. People need to reevealuate their celebrities.

Brewer55
Brewer55

When I hear a Johnny Cash song it reminds me of my dad, whose been gone 28 years now. He liked Johnny and Nat King Cole. Where has “normal” gone? We are living in an upside down world.

Unreconstructed
Unreconstructed

(Author unknown. minor editing for brevity.)
“…his life cannot be reduced to a metaphor. It was more than just one of noble ambition or grandeur of design; Johnny’s virtues were just as hard-fought as his vices. In life Johnny Cash struggled for and against the God whose grip on him was so frustratingly and thankfully relentless that it was able to absorb all that fierce rage and all those addictions. Johnny could sing about murder and God in the same song and with the same voice because to do otherwise would have been dishonest. At the same time, he let that despair, agony, and rejection stand on their own; he lent them integrity. There was no serious salvation unless there was first some serious sin… A God (to Cash)who could not stomach the darkest moments of His creation was not worth our worship, much less a song.”
This was written by a man having a drink in a bar with an atheist when the subject of music and hence Johnny Cash came up. The unbeliever stated ” If I were going to believe in a God, I would believe in the God of Johnny Cash.”
“But more than that, Johnny was the kind of person who could simultaneously hold in tension the conflicting parts of his personality and communicate to those who are alienated by a deeply counterfiet
culture, particularly counterfiet Christianity.”
“In a world of fakes, Cash was authentic.”

DRUD
DRUD

I’ve got something in my eye and I think some awesomeness might be leaking out.

I’m not alone:

Here’s what Trent Reznor had to say about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLqjd01fPpQ

I had forgotten about “Personal Jesus.” Perhaps the only Depeche Mode song I like, but it is good and Johnny nails it too:

And as an aside…Rick Rubin shows up in so many music stories. The guy is everywhere. Here’s Chris Cornell with a story and then an acoustic version of one of his very best songs:

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