Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash
Feb. 26th, 2006 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomMan oh man, I do miss The Man In Black. What are your favorite Cash songs? I could just go on all day, but "Folsom Prison Blues", "25 Minutes To Go", "A Boy Named Sue", "I Walk The Line", "One Piece At A Time", and his cover of "Hurt" are all great places to start.
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:37 pm (UTC)Oh, and all those you mentioned ...
The entire Folsom CD (the expanded remaster)
The entire San Quention CD (see above)
And ... well ... I could go on but I do have things to do today ...
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Date: 2006-02-26 04:41 pm (UTC)Green Green Grass of Home
Ira Hayes
The One on the Right was on the Left
and a special mention to Shel Silverstien for "A Front Row Seat to Hear Ol' Johnny Sing"
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Date: 2006-02-27 01:40 am (UTC)Great song. There's a great story about John playing at the White House by invitation. Richard Nixon asked him to "play something patriotic." So John sang The Ballad of Ira Hayes.
That's my kind of patriotic.
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Date: 2006-02-26 04:55 pm (UTC)Though Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line are my two favorites of his.
If I never hear Ring of Fire again, I'll be content.
(There's a 50's style diner we wind up at freqently, and EVERY TIME I've been in there in the past seven years, RoF has come on. Sometimes twice in one visit.)
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Date: 2006-02-26 06:19 pm (UTC)I just posted the lyrics for my favorite song about Johnny Cash on my lj
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Date: 2006-02-26 06:31 pm (UTC)And honorable mention for his appearance as a coyote on The Simpsons.
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Date: 2006-02-26 10:42 pm (UTC)"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (which I heard by Kris Kristofferson first, then the original, and then much later the Shawn Mullins version) and my favorite funny Cash song, "The One on the Left".
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Date: 2006-02-27 04:22 am (UTC)1. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES. Invariably makes me feel locked up with the narrator, feeling his regret. Plus, it includes one of the Most Distinctive Guitar Riffs Ever.
2. I STILL MISS SOMEONE. The best, and gentlest, of breakup songs, bitterness-free. Mostly.
3. THE MAN COMES AROUND. Millenarian theology made palatable. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
4. THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES. Cash gave regard and respect to the downtrodden of all sorts -- the oppressed, the prisoner, the betrayed lover ... heck, even boys named Sue.
5. MAN IN BLACK. Very few country singers of the era (or of this one, for that matter) could get away with progressive sentiments. J.R. could do anything.
6. MERCY SEAT. Cover of a Nick Cave composition about a man facing death by electric chair. Haunting.
7. I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE. Best travelogue ever.
8. COUNTRY TRASH. Much fun.
9. GIVE MY LOVE TO ROSE. "God bless you for finding me this morning ..."
10. COCAINE BLUES. Among the starkest opening couplets ever: "Early one morning while making the rounds/I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down ..."
11. RING OF FIRE. In which June tries to make sense of the nigh-unstoppable attraction threatening to engulf him. Love the mariachi horns.
12. PERSONAL JESUS. Yup, the Depeche Mode cover. Just 'cause.
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Date: 2006-03-05 02:54 am (UTC)My favorite was always "Come Along and Ride That Train", because he'd sing it every week on his tv show when I was a kid. "Hurt" was a later favorite.