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Scott Summets
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#21 Posted on
To address two other posters, DarkRenegade my mom also reacted the same to Hurt, and also to Scooter Trash, I agree I didn't start listening to Cash soon enough. Personally, I've always liked Tim McGraw and Hank Williams Jr., and last spring I started getting into more diverse Country and more artists and was at my friends house listening to some stuff. He said his favorite country artist was Johnny Cash, and asked if I had heard any of his stuff to which I sadly replied no. So he goes, "The first song of his I heard is this--it might sound ordinary at first but listen till the end and it's great!" So he puts on "Delia". I missed the line about shooting her in the beginning, so I figure its a pretty weird love song till I hear Cash belt out "First time I shot her.... shot her in the side..... hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died;" at this I was thinking that Cash might not be so ordinary.
So I look up his songs on Kazaa and see everything from Ring of Fire to Rusty Cage (Soudngarden.... odd for a Country star I thought?) to Where you There When They Crucified My Lord (A song we sing in Church?). So I get a ton of his stuff and listen and was instantly hooked. There might be better singers and guitar players than Cash but when you look at the total package, he is the best like OlFuzzyBastard said. Since that time he's become my favorite singer and I've picked up tons of his CDs.
I can't think of any other singer who can pull such a range of emotions out of you than Cash. Anger, sadness, love, humor, despair, faith--Cash could sing about ANYTHING and make it great. His live albums are incredible (his newest I believe Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden I recommend), his songs are great and tell some incredible and wonderful stories. Like I said, you can go from laughing at a boy named Sue fighting his dad to feeling for the plight of the downtrodden with Ballad of Ira Hayes. For his big singles, I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, etc. nothing needs to be said--incredible. Also, Cash was a great character aside from Cash the person. Just like his songs he was, as he puts it on his Madison Square Garden release--"A Dove with Claws". Everyone I know who likes Cash considers him the biggest badass in music, a gangster rapper can use "Fuck" 100 times and describe how they violently killed a guy over 2 minutes and I still won't come close to Cash busting out "I shot a man in Reno! Just to watch him die!" or "Early one morning while making my rounds, I did a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down!" for the approval of 1000s of prisoners. The man was strong for fighting his abuse, he fell and picked himself up again through his strength, faith, and the love of his wife. Despite his cowboy image, he also honestly cared about the poor and was a good man.
I read once (I think a review on some website) a comment about Cash's music that rings true. To paraphrase it, it said Cash's songs created a world of Cowboys in black roaming lonely throug the world, prisoners in jail for ages, lovers lost and dead, unrequited love, death, pain and anguish. Yet beneath that there was always happiness, always faith and love and a longing for what really mattered--love, faith, religion, family. Despite the pain of his characters with faith they all eventually had happy endings with the Lord.
To end this, I'm obviously sad that Cash died, The Man In Black was truly great. But without June he had to have been so sad, she helped him rise again and was his life. Also he was in pain and where he is now (if there is ANYONE in the entertainment business that I have no doubts where they ended up it would have to be Cash) is much better. I'd imagine right now in heaven there may be the first duet performance of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash covering all their hits and blowing everyone away, and I'm sure Waylon's right there jamming with them with June providing back up.



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#22 Posted on
It's like they always say, if heaven exists, you know they've got a hell of a band.



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#23 Posted on
Bravo Mr. Summets, I couldn't have said it better, and dare not try.
I can't even find the words to express my sadness.



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#24 Posted on


It doesn't seem to work...

Damn...

Anyone else got a working link to the "Hurt" video?

I really want to see this

Edit: Never mind...I'm a tool...I found it...Damn that's moving.

(edited by ThreepMe on 12.9.03 1543)


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#25 Posted on
Damn...... there is not much else to say about this great loss to music in general.

But allow me to say this: let us all at the very least retain the thought that the man has lived a great, prosperous life, and will be able to join his loving wife where ever the 2nd act exists.



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#26 Posted on
I have my clock radio set to the sole country station in the Bay Area, and this morning, I woke up to "I Walk The Line". I can't recall the last time I heard that, or indeed any Cash song, on commercial country radio. Not to mention Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Mel Tillis, Loretta Lynn, Don Williams, Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette--the list goes on. I rolled over and said to Hubby, "Damn, he must be dead."

"Must be," says he.

MM
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#27 Posted on
Little tidbit from my father: at the bar he hits up after work, they set the jukebox (it's all digital) to fifteen different versions of "I Walk the Line". Damn.

This is the part where I'm supposed to ask what to download, but since everyone's back on campus, that's not an option (prohibitively slow). So what do I buy of his (with money, of course)?



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#28 Posted on
Friday morning was weird because I actually had a dream that involved Cash. I dreamed it was Xmas and some huge Cash box set came out and I kept trying to get it and finally did. Then I wake up and put on a Cash CD and hit up the Wienerboard and see the RIP JOHNNY CASH at the top, which was weird. But as for CD's to get, any of his greatest hits CDs, and his live CDs are great, espically Live at Folsom Prison and Live at San Quentin, also any of the American recordings are great.



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#29 Posted on | Instant Rating: 4.56
X-E's co-Worst Poster of all time! JKyle.com says:

Cash was the man to me. The clothes, the attitude, the emotion... all with unbreakable faith and a work ethic that defies description.

I hope American V's finished tracks will come out, sooner or later. Even if they don't, it's nice to know the last track on his last complete album was "We'll Meet Again."



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#30 Posted on
Normally, celebrity passings don't affect me, but when I read (at work, no less) that Johnny Cash passed on, I excused myself and had a good cry in the washroom.

I will be the first to admit that I wasn't a huge Cash fan. I mean, I know "A BOY NAMED SUE", "I WALKED THE LINE", "BURNING RING OF FIRE", and his duet with the Christian punk band One Bad Pig called "MAN IN BLACK"...but it was probably more his dedication to his wife, his music, and his faith that rang true to me.

I read somewhere (I believe it was in the Calgary Sun) that Johnny Cash turned in his suit of black for a white robe, and that he's now singing in a choir beside his wife, that really hit me hard.

The world changes everytime someone passes on, and that's certainly true today.



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#31 Posted on | Instant Rating: 7.29
'Man in Black' was man of faith, humility
By Cal Thomas
September 17, 2003

ARLINGTON, Va. - I met Johnny Cash in 1978 when I was writing a book about public people and their private challenges.

After seven months of letters and calling his secretary, I finally got an interview with him. It took place on a sweltering August night at Wolf Trap Farm Park outside Washington, where flies battled each other for the privilege of biting stagehands. I overheard a conversation between two of those stagehands. One spoke of Mr. Cash as being a "man of God." He did not mean it as a compliment. They laughed.

Through the door that led to the stage strode the man in black. "Who are you? Do we have an appointment?" I explained that we did and gave the name of his secretary who set it up. He took my large hand in his much larger hand. Mr. Cash looked every bit his 46 years, but it was a beautiful 46. Later, he broke up the audience: "A lot of people in the business as long as I've been say they still feel like they're 25. I don't. I feel like I'm 46."

Typical Mr. Cash: honest, unpretentious, a man comfortable with anyone, from the powerful to the incarcerated. He had a face not to be looked at so much as to be studied. Like rings tell the age of a tree, each line on his face was part of a life story.

Mr. Cash hid little. He spoke openly about his wrestling matches with temptation. Some he'd won, others he'd lost. And he spoke unashamedly about the faith those stagehands mocked. He told me of his daily commitment based on Psalm 19:14: "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer."

He said when he was "faced with temptations of various kinds, whether it be a 200-calorie soft drink or something else beautiful, I try to remember to recite that Scripture and keep it implanted in my heart."

Did he and his wife, June (who died in May), ever fight? "We don't fight. If we have a disagreement, we decide whether the thing we're disagreeing about is worth the trouble. If not, we drop it, each with his or her own opinion, but respecting each other. ... We don't yell. ... Our voices have not been raised at each other in our home."

Mr. Cash told me that he intensely disliked public adulation and that while he enjoyed people having fun when he entertained, adulation "embarrasses me. ... No man should ever feel worthy of that kind of adulation. On stage, it's part of what I do, but I'm talking about the real me when I'm off stage. Adulation [there] always bothers me."

Mr. Cash revealed that he used to pray that God would give him a hit gospel song so he could better share his faith with others. "God gave me 'A Boy Named Sue,'" he said, laughing. "I kept praying for a hit gospel song, and He gave me 'Folsom Prison Blues.' I kept praying for a hit gospel song, and He gave me 'Ring of Fire.' And then 'Ballad of a Teenage Queen.' Those records were like a beacon. They attracted a lot of people." But the fame that came from those hits, he declared, gave him an entree to many people with whom he could share his faith.

Toward the end of our interview, I asked if he could be anyone in the world for one day, who would it be. He pondered, then clarified, "Just for one day, right?"

"Yes, one day."

"I know a 78-year-old man named Hoy Jones, who's a retired farmer. He does nothing but sit on his front porch and wave at people. I'd like to do that. I'd like to be Hoy Jones one day. Who was it that said, 'Let me live in a house beside the road and be a friend to man'? Well, that's what I'd like to do if I only had one day. I'd take it."

The answer to my final question from a man who was one of the greatest music stars in history tells you something about the real Johnny Cash: "One hundred years from now, how would you like to be remembered?"

"I'd like to be remembered as a good daddy."

Then he got up, shook my hand again, thanked me and was gone.




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#32 Posted on
RIP The Man

We'll miss ya johnny



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