Thoughts on Johnny Cash
Thoughts on Johnny Cash
Poor man's Merle Haggard
he’s pretty good when you’re feeling depressed
anyone that hates him doesnt know SHIT about music
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He predates Merle by like 10 years.
AND THERE'S NOTHING SHORT OF DYIN'
THAT'S HALF AS LONESOME AS THE SOUND
OF THE SLEEPIN' CITY SIDEWALK
AND SUNDAY MORNING COMIN' DOWN
Yeah but Merle had more versatility for singing, a more consistent discography and actually lived up to the bad boy image since he was in prison
Not to mention a much better song writer
OK, fair enough. I don't think Johnny was trying to be the bad boy though so much as giving them a voice. Pretty bad drug prob though.
The Cashless society began on September 12, 2003.
sold more and was a big influence on rock and country
until i saw the new Dylan movie i didnt know he was such an influence on Dylan, hes pretty cool but you need to understand his context, sure, Van Zandt,Young, Van Morrisson and other make deeper country or folk but Cash is important as hell
Cash was a real nigga
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Punk as fuck.
Lemme tell ya, this dude goes and performed concerts at two of the most notorious U.S. prisons to an audience of dangerous criminals, and gets out of both shows alive.
Not only that, bith audiences loved him.
And one of those concerts was actually broadcast on national television.
If that aint punk, then I don't know what the fuck is, and believe me when I tell you that I know punk.
Don't fuck with me.
I walked Jonny Rotten right up to the stage.
What the fuck have YOU done that was so fucking great?
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decent, but entry level country & western.
What happened on that date?
I farted
the coolest
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Ok drop your patrician picks fool
At San Quentin [Columbia, 1969]
Much weaker than Folsom Prison and Greatest Hits, which is where to start if you're just getting into Cash. Only ten songs, one of which is performed twice. Another was written by Bob Dylan. C+
Quentin>Folsom
The absolute GOAT cover artist and it's not even close.
Cash fell off like a rock after the '60s because he was too outlaw for Nashville and too traditional for outlaw so he finally let the industry milk him dry.
Johnny's Cash
look mom i'm being contrarian on the internet
I could've sworn I posted this exact comment at some point and I was right. Get your own material.
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crazy how it took him 50 years to make his best stuff
He's saying that Dylan covers are/were a popular and lazy way to pad out an album when you don't have enough original material.
He nailed early on the second try. I love this scene. I wonder how true it is.
The American Recordings weren't milking though. He was an aging Patrician adding to the Great American Songbook and covering some old stuff for the Songbook to boot.
I like to think he was sending it off to one kid out there who will learn them all and become Patrician himself. Maybe it'll be one of you.
Merle saw JC play at San Quentin
Cash and Dylan were friends and recorded each other's music, as well as recording songs they wrote together.
Well that's retarded since Cash played a lot of covers throughout his career. It was just the norm. Some of his biggest hits like Ring of Fire, Boy Named Sue and Sunday Morning Coming Down were covers. Hell even most of Folsom was covers.
More like Johnny ASS
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The McGuire Sisters he ain't.
I appreciate that Johnny Cash liked Beck.
I mean technically his version is truer to the Charlie Phillips original which was narcoleptic as fuck. Also Kitty Wells covered this song to the same Nyquil effect.
I'm old enough to be your father, kid. When you grow up you will be able to make your own musical judgements without the need of music critics or stupid websites to guide you.
That cover of Rowboat is awesome.
Columbia Records 1958-1986 [Columbia, 1987]
Turns out he was always a folkie, a damn good one despite such lovable pop trifles as "A Boy Named Sue" and its decade-late follow-up "The Baron." The whole first side was recorded in his first seven months with the label; in fact, three of the five tracks were cut and wrapped on August 13, 1958. By contract, exactly one selection was busy being born between February '71 and March '79, the country trifle "One Piece at a Time," and while I'd substitute its assembly-line companion piece "Oney" for Nick Lowe's December '79 "Without Love" (which has more assembly line in it than anyone's letting on), that gets the trajectory of his career about right. Lately he's righted himself some, but it's the ageless stuff he's best at--John Henry and Ira Hayes, "Orange Blossom Special" and "Ghost Riders in the Sky," and let us not forget "Highway Patrolman," which proves Bruce Springsteen is Woody Guthrie if anything ever did. A-