What is your favorite Johnny Cash song?

[240 is Back]

i downloaded that last cover CD today.   I forgot about rusty cage, really good one there.

[SilverSpoon]

How has Long Black Veil not been mentioned yet?

[Tito24]

"hurt" hands down

[funk51]

highwayman

[hazbin]

Dude is a total getbigger.   What is your favorite song by Johnny cash?

10. For 20 years, Roy Orbison lived next door to Johnny Cash. The men were neighbors in Tennessee, and they often collaborated together.

9. Cash once broke his toes trying to kick the bars out of a jail cell. The incident happened during one of Cash’s seven arrests, and occurred at a jail in Starkville, Miss. after Cash was incarcerated for trespassing.

8. Johnny Cash wasn’t totally fearless. The singer suffered from a fear of flying and a fear of snakes.

7. Cash was allegedly the first person ever to be sued by the U.S. for igniting a forest fire. Cash would often take his camper, Jesse James, out to the desert for methamphetamine binges. One time, the camper had an oil leak that caused the Los Padres National Wildlife Refuge to catch fire. The blaze killed almost every endangered condor in the refuge, to which Cash replied, “I don’t give a damn about your yellow buzzards.”

6. Cash and his bandmates were constantly stirring up trouble in the hotels they frequented while touring. In the late 1950s, Cash and his band bought 500 baby chickens and let 100 loose on each floor of the hotel they were staying at. Another time, Cash and Co. flushed cherry bombs down a toilet, destroying the plumbing system. Cash also stabbed a reproduction of the Mona Lisa that was hanging in a hotel because it didn’t quite reach his standards.

5. When Cash felt his record label was ignoring him in 1984, he intentionally recorded a terrible album. The title of the album was ‘Chicken in Black,’ and the lead song was about Cash having his brain transplanted with that of a chicken.

4. Cash was once attacked by … an ostrich. The ostrich resided on his farm, and one day the bird kicked the singer. The blow from the animal was massive, leaving Cash with five broken ribs and internal bleeding.

3. The scar on Cash’s face is from a botched surgical procedure. While he was in the Air Force, Cash had a cyst removed on his face. Supposedly, the doctor was drunk during the operation and messed up during surgery, leaving the singer with a permanent reminder of that day.

2. Cash drew inspiration from a tape playing backwards for the tune to ‘I Walk the Line.’ Even more surprising is the fact that it was a record of Bavarian guitar music. “[I had] a tape recorder in the Air Force in 1952. And [it] was always only guitar going do-do-do-do-do,” Cash told Larry King in an interview. “Well it got turned around. The tape got in there backwards. And then I played it, it went sh-sh-sh-sh and it had a kind of a drone sound like I finally had on the record.”

1. Cash never did a performance where he wasn’t wearing black. Cash started wearing all-black suits as a good luck charm, because he wore a black T-shirt and jeans to his first live gig. He once told Larry King, “[I've] never done a concert in anything but black. You walk into my clothes closet. It’s dark in there.”


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Johnny performed many times in brightly colored as well a white clothing.

[Tony Doherty]

What a great thread.  I agree that he got better as he got older, his voice on hurt was so dry it nearly cracks. I was brought up on Johnny Cash along with Tom Waits, listen to him almost daily. My Dad used to play Cash cassettes all day on our long family drives. Favourite song impossible as it changes. lately I have been stuck listening to a cover he did of "For the Good Times" listen to his old voice in this one.

[Tony Doherty]

Here is his haunting final interview.

"I expect my life to end soon"

[Lobstah]

 cash is great,  but can we have this same thread about Costello? it's the first question on my boyfriend application form.  haha.

[Mr Nobody]

Contraband Wilson has him beat.

[DroppingPlates]

cash is great,  but can we have this same thread about Costello? it's the first question on my boyfriend application form.  haha.

So you prefer gay/metrosexual men?

[Lobstah]

So you prefer gay/metrosexual men?

liking Costello is gay? pssh, I guess so then.

[DroppingPlates]

liking Costello is gay? pssh, I guess so then.

It's prob the same as with the Counting Crows, women appreciate the sentimental/emotional style, but MEN?! It raises my estrogen levels in a heartbeat 

[Dr Dutch]

It's prob the same as with the Counting Crows, women appreciate the sentimental/emotional style, but MEN?! It raises my estrogen levels in a heartbeat 

CC are extremely boring, agree on that. About JC: dunno, Folsom ?

[bigmc]

his cover of hurt is superb

very understated

but laden with melancholy

[Lobstah]

CC are extremely boring, agree on that. About JC: dunno, Folsom ?

understatement. cc  are actually the stupidest shit since hootie  and the blowfish.  they give me diarrhea.

[SilverSpoon]

Elvis Costello is a genius.
So is Peter Gabriel.

Today my squat workout was to "This Year's Model".

I am NOT hitting on Lobstah, as my wife worked out with me.

But if liking Costello is gay, call me Liberace.

[JasonH]

Not being from the US and knowing much about country music the only Johnny Cash song I knew before reading this thread was "Ring of Fire", but since reading the thread I've downloaded some of his greatest hits and most of them are excellent, some good listening there. Added to my iPod for future use. 

[Man of Steel]

Not a huge Johnny Cash fan, but I like his music.  Like his gospel stuff quite a bit.

[LiftEaTsLeEpRePeAt]

I think this is a great cover byJC    I cant believe trent literally cired and complained about it

[BB]

This is a good cover too -

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[Lobstah]

Elvis Costello is a genius.
So is Peter Gabriel.

Today my squat workout was to "This Year's Model".

I am NOT hitting on Lobstah, as my wife worked out with me.

But if liking Costello is gay, call me Liberace.

having good taste in music does not mean you're trying to bang! [high five]

[SilverSpoon]

having good taste in music does not mean you're trying to bang! [high five]

Tell the goons on here that.

I know that.

[Dr Dutch]

Elvis Costello is great. So is Paul Weller.

[V Man]

it's a good thing June Carter never married Hank Snow.   

who knows why?

Because Snow would be cumming in June...Ha!

[Costanza]

Not his greatest but always liked it.