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I think this is an interesting article on Johnny Cash. I am not sure I understand it all, but a different perspective to say the least. I grew up in the south and he was always there. He seemed as though he was just part of the culture.

Thought I would throw in something a little off the wall for us

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0312/opinion/candler.html

I don't think it was too much off the wall...well, maybe just a bit..LOL.

I've liked Johnny Cash ever since my mom played "a boy named Sue' when I was a kid. I thought that was such a cool song that and I was very disappointed that the singers name was John and not Sue...I was convinced that it was all real.


I'm gonna miss Johnny Cash....

Thanks for that article, Rose. Nor do I at all think that is too far off the mark. My very first self-taught electric guitar lick was the intro to "I Walk the Line" and my first 8-track tape (showing a little age, huh? ) was a Johnny Cash recording.

Rose,

Thanks.

For me, his most moving piece has always been, "If I were a Carpenter." He and his wife, June, personified that song and its message so well. Their duo will endure in the heavens.

In Christ,
Andrew

My favorite Johnny Cash song was "Burning Ring Of Fire" but I'll spare Forum members the shock and horror of who's version I prefered.

Dear Lawrence,

Well, my wife still thinks of me as "a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love!"

Alex

Dear hunk-a-hunk, that was Elvis; I doubt Johnny Cash ever covered that one!
My earliest musical memory is my dad singing "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line." Many years later, in the midst of the intergenerational conflicts of the late 60s I had my dad listen to Johnny Cash singing his "Lonely Voice of Youth", which was sympathetic to the counterculture, and casually mentioned that Mr Cash had appeared on a Dylan album. I think my dad felt profoundly betrayed...
but he got over it.

It is interesting how someone like Johnny Cash, was a part of our memories. I miss the crooners, like Bing Cosby, anf Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin. There is somethimg missing in the music today that they brought to the world.

Or the dancers like Gene Kelly, Fred Astair, or Danny Kay. I was watching White Christmas the other night. Somehow it seems to have alwasys been a part of my life. My mom, may her memory be eternal, loved to make a bowl of pop corm and watch it every year(that was when you made it the old fashion way.)

Well I am typing without my glasses so enough!
Rose

Dear Diak,

Here you are incognito[sp] again!

Rose

Dear Daniel,

Yes, I preferred Elvis.

And I can't understand why nobody believes me when I KNOW that I saw him several months ago walking around Collingwood during the Elvis festival there . . .

Alex

Hey Lawrence,

I to think SD did it the best.

I will always remember Johnny Cash as a great singer who could attract big city slickers such as myself to country music.

The fact that he was an ex-con (petty theft) who made it big and then returned to prisons to regularly sing for the inmates (no charge) is what I will remember him most for.

In a sense he 'ministered' to the 'outcasts' of society, bringing them hope and a level of respect they had lost. In a sense he was a "Saint for the lost causes".

Wall of Vodoo's, perchance?

You guys forgot to mention Tom Jones. He used to have a great voice.
How about the Polish Bobby Vinton. I remember once watching his program with my father. Mr. Vinton was talking to some people in the studio during his program and asked a beautiful blond girl if she was Polish and she answered that she was Ukrainain then Mr.Vinton said that Ukrainians and Pole were the same thing. I remember that My father had a fit he wanted to throw something at the TV and I had to hold him back, I told him that it wasn't worth it. Great memories though.
Lauro
Lauro

Daniel, Johnny Cash covered several Dylan songs. Probably the biggest hit of his Dylan covers was his version of "It Ain't Me Babe".

He was definitely an American troubador of our time.

Now I taught the weepin' willow how to cry
And I showed the clouds to cover up a clear blue sky
And the tears I cried for that woman
Are gonna flood you big river
And I'm gonna sit right here until I die
"Big River", 1958, one of my personal favorites

Just around the corner there's heartache
Down the street that losers use
If you can wade in through the teardrops
You'll find me at the Home of the Blues
"Home of the Blues" 1957 another favorite