Johnny Cash

[Little Darlin]

Johnny Cash would have 76 Today.

“To millions of fans, Johnny Cash is “the Man in Black,” a country music legend who sings in an authoritative baritone about the travails of working men and the downtrodden in this country. Lesser known is the fact that Johnny Cash was present at the birth of rock and roll by virtue of being one of the earliest signees to Sam Phillips’ Sun Records back in 1955. Cash was part of an elite club of rock and roll pioneers at Sun that included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The four were collectively referred to as “the Million Dollar Quartet” after an impromptu gathering and jam session at the Sun recording studio on December 4, 1956. What Cash and his group, the Tennessee Two, brought to the “Sun Sound” was a spartan mix of guitar, standup bass and vocals that served as an early example of rockabilly. Cash recorded a string of rockabilly hits for Sun that included “Cry, Cry, Cry,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and “I Walk the Line.” The latter was first of more than a dozen Number One country hits for Cash and also marked his first appearance on the national pop singles charts.

Straddling the country, folk and rockabilly idioms, Johnny Cash has crafted more than 400 plainspoken story-songs that describe and address the lives of coal miners, sharecroppers, Native Americans, prisoners, cowboys, renegades and family men.


http://www.johnnycash.com/

[Rob]

Thanks for the reminder, Little Darlin'.

Colin has really disappointed me on this one.

[BigredG]

Colin has really disappointed me on this one.

Too busy with his pop up !


Dirty beggar

[ColinB]

Thanks for the reminder, Little Darlin'.

Colin has really disappointed me on this one.

Yeah, thanks LD !

With all my computer problems, I never did my anniversaries today.

I missed Fats Domino too, but I see you got that covered........................

[Little Darlin]

Thanks for the reminder, Little Darlin'.

Colin has really disappointed me on this one.

Yeah, thanks LD !

With all my computer problems, I never did my anniversaries today.

I missed Fats Domino too, but I see you got that covered........................

Hope you didn't mind Colin, hope everything is ok now

And you're welcome Rob!

[Brad M]

Thanks for posting that LD!

[drjohncarpenter]

The experience of seeing Johnny Cash perform was akin to watching a face on Mt. Rushmore speak -- it was something I'll never forget.

[Rob]

I agree. I saw him in Louisville in 1988. He was something else.

[Brad M]

I love the song titled "Hurt" he did close before his death. Very touching.

[ColinB]

I love the song titled "Hurt" he did close before his death.
Very touching.

Was that the video of him at home on the piano ?

Yes, very well done, with his wife June looking on in a concerned way.

But he actually survived her by a few weeks.

[drjohncarpenter]

I love the song titled "Hurt" he did close before his death. Very touching.

You can thank the innovation of producer Rick Rubin, bringing a song by Nine Inch Nails to Cash. Nice bridging of generations -- you should hear the original.

[javilu]

I'm glad Johnny got to record some great music during his last years with Rubin as producer.
The songs on which he was backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are great.