I absolutely love Johnny Cash, was raised on him. I love all his works, old, patriotic, sinner, saint, love, redemption, and his final works, when the end looked at him in the face. The fact new music still comes from him almost 10 years after his death, says a lot....
Some of his new tunes:
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZYCover of Tom Petty's classic, with Tom backing him up, real good:
Johnny Cash - I Won't Back Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQCmDfKFacJohnny Cash - The Beast in Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tGCVavS5sJohnny Cash - I See A Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04I5MtuOMwOf Course the Highwaymen.....what a group!! Unbelievable.....
The Highwaymen - The Road Goes On Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj6HfWp-eh0The Highwaymen - Live Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=698lFQGcaS4If you need you understand him & what happened with his career and life, this is an excellent 5 part series of a show, Controversy: Cash vs. Music Row
Cash vs. Music Row - 1 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whMqU5Z42a4Cash vs. Music Row - 2 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcafjhirQgCash vs. Music Row - 3 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0Tv1S5qe8Cash vs. Music Row - 4 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWQxO4lABCQ(If you don't know the artists mentioned who he was up with for in the VMA from MTV, they were people who basically were what was pop music at the time...he was against the best.)
Cash vs. Music Row - 5 of 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxF71AusoF0IMO Johnny Cash's American Recordings IV: When the Man Comes Around will go down as his best album along with Folsom Prison. The two are the opposite ends of this legend's life.
When the Man Comes Around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EAHurt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxU3gXy1Qq8Rosanne Cash in another documentary had said to him when she saw it that, "It is like you're saying goodbye"....he said, "It's because I am". One of the most amazing videos in music video history. The fact that he spoke to so many, is what made him great and what will make him timeless.
The world should thank Rick Rubin for seeing what had yet to be done at a time when everyone, including Cash himself, thought it was over. He gave Cash a chance to take it to the next level and then gave Cash the chance to say goodbye. How many times do you see that in popular media, how many times does someone come so raw at you and rattle every bone in your body??
The world could use more Johnny Cash.
The explosion of Cash videos on YouTube after he splashed back and around the time he died, showed just how much he spoke to people. I remembered watching just how it all went down. How he just got all over YouTube and in the oddest places. I think he'd of loved it.
As a total aside, the folks that came out of Nashville at the time he was being shoved aside, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Alabama, Garth Brooks et al....they are all currently being buried by the "New" Nashville, which damn well has nothing that sounds like country. Least these guys had fiddles and steel guitars, but the crap they pump out now, is just unbearable. I wonder if any of the folks left behind now will do what Cash did?? I love a lot of them, but I doubt they will be able to. Johnny built them the house they played in. Only a few get to claim that right.
I even caught my Dad listening to Luke Bryan, my own Dad who was such a huge fan of Cash and all them. I gave him an ear full about it. I refuse to patronage the current Country Music Establishment.
But I love how Johnny still speaks, even over 10 years after he's been gone. I can't wait for the day I have children and I can teach them all this.
(I love Cash so much it took me over an hour to write this....wanted to capture the essence of it all.)
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Of course Arizona was fun too in the heat lol.
