Johnny Cash

Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 12 Sep 2007 2:02 pm

Four years ago today, we lost The Man In Black.

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 12 Sep 2007 2:22 pm

Larry,,

thanks for the reminder and the post!

Dang it don't seem that long ago!

Larry

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 12 Sep 2007 2:23 pm

I had Cash on my Ipod all morning at work.

Don Sulesky · Post by **Don Sulesky** » 13 Sep 2007 6:15 am

A legend in his own time.
How many can say that?
I too have an original copy of the album you show.
Bought it when it was issued, a classic for sure.
Don

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 14 Sep 2007 11:16 pm

I've mellowed out. I too love Johnny.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 15 Sep 2007 3:41 am

The jobs I work, FPB is a standard song. We play all older "traditional" country music, not the "rock" that they push as country.

I also get to play that song every show when we are on tour with his brother, Tommy. We have 15 shows in 14 days booked with Tommy coming up in Feb 08.

Henry Nagle · Post by **Henry Nagle** » 16 Sep 2007 1:16 am

The Sinatra of Hillbilly. There will never be another.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 16 Sep 2007 9:26 am

I like that Henry.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 16 Sep 2007 1:19 pm

Many people think they know who Johnny Cash was, including me.

Read his autobiography: Cash, if you want to know who he really was.. I found out more in that book than I ever knew....

The movie Walk the line doesn't even scratch the surface.

Get it CASH: The Autobiography.

It is amazing reading. I have read it cover to cover twice.

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 16 Sep 2007 8:38 pm

Regarding "Folsum Prison Blues", it is overplayed by
most bar bands, but most of them treat it like it was
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown". It is really a fun song to do if you slow it down to the chugga-chugga groove
it is supposed to have. The first time I heard Cash's music was on the Midnite Jamboree coming thru
the static on an AM car radio. The bass wasn't in and the only thing going was Luther's dead string
rhythm. They were doing "Cry, Cry, Cry" and there was no sense of a key or pitch that I could discern.
My reaction was, "What is this, this guy'll never make it." The concept grew on me. Willie Nelson
knew exactly what he was doing years later with his minimalist approach on "Blue Eyes Crying in the
Rain."