OT: Johnny Cash

MauiRob

MauiRob

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Just got 2 new albums to add to my meager Johnny Cash collection:

Unchained and American Recordings. Both produced by Rick Rubin who is more of an alternative music producer usually.

If you like Cash, get them. American Recordings is just Johnny and an acoustic guitar singing some really soulfull songs, something about the way he can bring out pain,loss, love and many other emotions just with the tone 0f his voice amazes me. The CD jacket has photographs on the outside but the whole 5 fold surface on the inside is a photograph of his actual handwritten essay on his very early experiences in music in his family as a kid, up through more recent times. Very cool.

Unchained is done with a band backing Johnny up. Its a compilation of his material and he also does covers of several other artists. "sea of heartbreak" and "memories are made of this" are some of my favorites.

These are recent albums. If you think J.C. is over the hill think again!!

Ok, music review over.:) Let me know if anyone has these and what you think of them.
 
Glad to see another Cash fan around. I've been one for 40 years. Had all his albums on LPs and now no way to play them. Saw him in person in San Diego late 60's. Hell of a show. Favorite album: Blood, sweat and tears.
 
I don't have any Johnny Cash. Always intended to get some, Rob and Bill. Would either of these be good albums or should I get an older classic?

munk
 
I only recently found Cash. I am now a fan. His spiritual songs come from the sould for sure.
 
I don't have any Johnny Cash. Always intended to get some, Rob and Bill. Would either of these be good albums or should I get an older classic?
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I really am new to Johhn Cash myself and only have about 4 CD's (two of which are a huge "best of" collection" I'd go to a border's or like establishment where you can listen before you buy..that's what i do. But Uncle Bill could answer this better. In fact i'm going to check out Blood, sweat and Tears asap:)

Just watched a 2 hour documentary on Johhny's life and career on Bravo (IIRC). It was great. I got my new quote (see below) from there:)
 
Rob, I just tried to email you but your address is no longer available.

That quote you post has special significance for me.



munk
 
Cash is good! Thanks for the recomendation.
 
A recent issue of "Acoustic Guitar" had the front cover & main story devolted to Mr. Cash. This was one time I was glad I had a subscription. Got introduced to that music in '67. Some zipper-head wrote in to the mag & complained that he resented Cash being on the front since he "only knew three or four chords & everybody knows he can't sing." Several of us wrote the mag to correct this imbecile. When you are listening to Cash, you are hearing a man's soul.

While making a living playing, I used to hear some of these would-be musicians talk about how simple & corny ole Luther Perkins guitar licks were behind Cash. Every time I heard that, it ran through my mind that I had heard him live a good many times, & have a bunch of records, & the whole time I have known who Luther Perkins is/was; I never heard him miss!! Some of his runs & licks may lack the bizillion notes a minute these modern jazz players use, but everything he did behind The Man fit the song, fit the timing, was done in tune, & was actually pretty damn tasteful cause he had enough class to know how to stay out of the front man's way.

I always figured that anybody Maybelle Carter would sing with had to have something going, but then, I guess I'm biased, by the standards of today's music.
 
I always figured that anybody Maybelle Carter would sing with had to have something going, but then, I guess I'm biased, by the standards of today's music.>>

Or, as the saying goes, "if you don't like Hank Williams, you can kiss my ass."

You ever heard Merle Travis?


This isn't the only way to view art, but it is one of the most important:
If you can say something in 5 words, or notes, or strokes from a brush, that take other people 2500, you are not simple.


munk
 
Munk-

Have I ever heard of Merle Travis? Do a shark potty in the sea? Does a cat have a climbing gear? Seriously, my bunch has already been told the routine when I kick off. Since Brother Merle is no longer with us, when I go I don't figure on having no preacher trying to make some big deal with one of them soul-savin' sermons. I'd sorta like a Masonic service, then when they get to the cemetery, there ought to be one straight-back chair setting at the head of the grave. In that chair is gonna be my buddy from down in Alabama, Bobby Carver & his old Martin, doing ole Merle's "I Am a Pilgrim." Hell, I don't care, he can finish up with "Cannonball Rag."
 
I reckon, anybody that says that Johnny Cash can't sing can French kiss my hidden rosette.

All the older singers were better in my opion than most of the garbage that you hear now. I was raized by an old man that would not allow what he called trash on his radio. If he found out that you even changed his station, you had a problem.

I have a bunch of LP's and something to play then with. In faact I have two machines that will play the old 33 RPM records. I don't need no young brats telling me what is good music. Many of us have already heard the best.:D :D
 
To show how with it I got after my kid, I went to replace my old stereo and found two identical models except one had a turntable and the other a CD. I got the one with a turntable, went into a music store for the first time in umpteen years, and found not a single lp in the entire store. I since bought a different system, but I still remember the shock of finding no records.
 
Your not going to believe this, Johnny Cash was in the Hospital a couple of weeks ago in Nashville and my Nephews girlfriend who is a nurse in the hospital where he stayed was assigned to go in and tend to him. What a small world

Foxy
 
Rus,
Same thing happened to my brother, asked for Records, kid showed him discs, Pointed out store says,"RECORDS"!lol!! kID SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A record was!!hee! Bro ,WE ARE OLD!!
jim
 
Jim, I once walked into a Radio Shack store and asked to see some inexpensive transistor radios. They looked at me like an alien life form. After getting everybody in the store, including the manager, together scratching their heads, I finally drew a crude picture of a pocket transistor radio. They figured it out, but all collectively agreed that they had never heard of a "transistor radio".

It works both ways, one of the sales girls had kept trying to hand me an MP3 player, until I asked her if it was AM or FM.:o :( ;)

Sarge
 
If you would have asked for a laptop with a cd-rom to play CD's they would have most likely have had at least a doaen of them in formt of you real fast.:) Has the rain stopped at the Hood yet?
 
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