Johnny Cash - your favourite song ?
 

written by NIN and absolutely smashed by JC!

I never understood Johnny Cash's popularity. I can respect his longevity in the business, but I personally do not like anything he's ever done.

Honestly, I would have said the same less than two years ago.

Then I heard Folsom Prison when Joqauin Phoenix sang it and went searching for the original, grew from there.

I cant afford either a Johnny Cash, a Folsom Prison or a Joqauin Phoenix... :(

Been meaning to apologise to you for the way in which I have conversed with you. No matter if you make a joke of this reply - I mean it and will leave it from here on, you seem like a decent bloke for an english fucker :1orglaugh

Hard to believe that it's been 10 years since he passed.

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ADG

Hey, No Problem :)

I AM a weird fucker - Drunk or not drunk... I am happy to own my shit :)

But no hard feelings :thumbsup

I was a bar where a Johnny Cash cover band (called Johnny Horsepower lol) played a few weeks ago with the gf, now she loves his music. She even went as far to have me go ask them how much they wanted to play at our wedding hah

I'd say my absolute favorite is Walk the line.

ADG - walk the line at San Quentin = just behind Folsom for me - great songs.

Thanks, glad to hear it :thumbsup

well I have the perfect wedding song for you!



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Boy named Sue is great because of the lyrics.
One of the few artists that produced quality in his later years aswell though

Taking home from the factory bits of a car in his lunchbox for 20 years to build his own - can't think of the name.

Yea tell me about it lol :helpme:helpme:1orglaugh

I am surprised nobody has posted You are my Sunshine yet. Too bad I can't post links yet :Oh crap

Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time :thumbsup

Wow,
First song I thought of before I clicked on the thread ... Good work :thumbsup
I love the part about "my empire of dirt" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"

My second favorite;

I've always liked this one..

I've always been a bit partial to this one.

Love those lines too along with 'what have I become...........my sweetest friend....'

Yeah
It is an amazing song
It is about loving money and having an empty soul, it's about everyone who changed or died, it's about just about everything. What a song.

the ring of fire :thumbsup but they were all good :2 cents: he could tell a good story 4 sure

"I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
and tell the world that everything's ok
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black."

Man in Black and live version Boy Named Sue

And the magic of producer Rick Rubin ?..


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I love his version of the Nine Inch Nails song, 'Hurt'

https://youtube.com/watch?v=H1ft0jo0kMs

Sea of Heartbreak and Rowboat, originally done by Don Gibson and Beck, respectively. And Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers back Johnny on Sea of Heartbreak.

God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Cocaine Blues
A boy named Sue

Exactly what I was thinking.

On my phone so I can't post video but I've Been Everywhere.

Still want to see that movie...

Country music ain't my kind of music, but I'd say probably 'Orange Blossom Special'

"Fortunately none" ...

Hurt is great but Highway man with those other guys singing it with him gives me chills.

Rock island line & Tennessee Flat top box
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God's Gonna Cut You Down is fucking awesome.

That's a cover, man....

Some poignant moments...





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ADG

My fave is his duet with Bob Dylan on the Nashville Skyline album... Girl from the North Country.

Ring of fire
a boy named sue (my first 45 which I still have)
folsom live album
his whole catalogue is gold.

Cash is one of those artists that transcends genre.

that one is great - I try to sing along to that but never succeed.

Ring of Fire

Some great songs being posted, have been lost listening to Johnny Cash songs all day today.

Completely agree Sarah :thumbsup

I'm not a country fan at all.

well said :thumbsup

I forgot about that one. It's also one of my favorites of his.

Walk the line