Johnny Cash Fans?

"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (although I might like the original by Kris Kristofferson better), "The Orange Blossom Special" and "The Ring of Fire".

"If I were a Carpenter" and "Jackson", both with June Carter Cash were great.
 
I've got the San Quentin album, American IV, and just got a 3 disc comp of his songs. My new favorite is Stripes, and he did a great cover of Sixteen Ton. I really liked his covers on IV, especially his Sting cover, I Hung my Head. The man is my favorite country western performer. My favorite types of music are Mississippi Delta blues and traditional bluegrass, but I listen to all kinds of music too, including rock, rap, classical, jazz etc. The one thing I hate is this new country crap coming out. Some of my friends who are big country fans never even heard of him.
 
HELLO I'm Johnny Cash!

I love Johnny Cash. My grandmother had a huge stereo with a record player that always played Cash, Waylon, Willie, and Merle. I need to check on that San Quentin set.


.......I took a shot of cocaine and a way I runnnnnn.....:thumbup: :D
 
Good ol Johny Cash. I always like to play his music around the campfire under a starlit sky with a bottle of scotch. Brings back many memories of good times. That Orange Blossom Special bringing my baby home. Wooo wooo choo choo.
 
yog said:
...On the San Quentin album, when he sings "San Quentin I hate everything about you", the audience really react, and you can just imagine the guards thinking "Oh **** !"
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Are you sure that it's not "San Quentin, I hate every inch of you"?
 
if you can find it look for the "vinyl classics"johnny cash at folsom prision spiegal edition-(yes it says spiegal not special)may be a german import-
found mine at wallyworld

it looks like a record-some people say black cd's sound better-
 
I got his last studio album, "Cash", for Christmas. The first track, "When the Man Comes Around", is based on his interpretation of the book of Revelations. It gives me chills when I listen to it.
 
samwereb said:
It's funny to look back on his career now and realize that he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket -- with a giant handle welded onto it.

Having said that, I liked "One Piece At A Time."
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I don't know if it would interest you or not since you seem to have your mind made up, but when John was young he attempted to take some singing lessons. His teacher was having trouble with the first lesson so she suggested that he sing something that he knew. He sang an old hymn that he sang at church. His teacher listened till he had finished and she then told him to never ever let anyone tell him how to sing. John Cash was John Cash. There was only one. No one could do what he did as well as he could do it.

"One Piece at a Time" was a funny song, but if you cannot identify with his rendition of Kristopherson's great song "Sunday Morning Coming Down" you got no soul.

Nolan
 
J.Cash fan here.....Favorite songs: Egg Suckin'
Dog, and THE BIG BATTLE.......

Aside from appreciating the music, I must confess an intense
respect for the man........
 
I think it was in an article where I read that Trent Reznor said that Hurt wasn't his song anymore, Johnny Cash made it his own.

Thats the thing about Johnny Cash. There is a local used cd store called Record and Tape Traders in the Baltimore area. They have stores all over the metro B-more area, and the one I go to is the one in Bel Air. The manager there is, or at least used to be, a big metal head. Wild hair, the leather, the nose/eye/who knows what else rings etc. I was looking for a Hank Williams cover album, and some Johnny Cash, asked someone, and they directed me to the manager. We stood there and talked about Johnny Cash and Hank Williams for almost an hour. I never would've expected that from this guy. Johnny Cash's music just reached across country to everyone else. One of my favorite covers of a Cash song was performed by Wyclef Jean at a Johnny Cash tribute, about, damn, almost ten years ago. He was just a down to Earth guy who was consumed by drugs, got clean, and had a good life.

And June Carter Cash was a little hottie back in the day!
 
It was when I first heard him do Hurt that I started listening to more of his music.
 
One of my Christmas gifts this past year was his last recording: "American V, a hundred highways". Not in his best voice, but a haunting collection. I've listened to it about 6 times straight through, all in a row, in my truck's CD player.
 
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