Johnny Cash Tribute

[Rougvie]

Theres a really good change to the advertised prog on Beeb 2.
Later with Jools Holland featuring the Cashmeister.
I think I can remember him at Glasto a few years back but was so out of the game it may have been a dream !

 

[fatbadger]

Johnny Cash was an utter star - his death is a real loss to music. As well as writing some of the most influential songs ever written, recording and rescuing for a new generation a whole heap of traditional songs, he recorded some of the most surprising and stunning versions of other people's songs. His catholic tastes should be an inspiration for all.

American folk music has produced some of the greatest recording asrtists of all time, and inspired just about every form of music you hear in the West - and Johnny Cash was one of its greatest exponents.

RIP (cuz you got very little when you were alive) Johnny.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Not a real fan of C&W but bought Cash's last album after seeing the video to Hurt.

One of the most moving videos going - it's like a retrospective of his life and features his wife just before she died.

Not sure if it is still there but rolling stone web site (the mag, not the band) used to have a copy on there and I would dare anyone to view it and not be moved.

 

[Rougvie]

The tribute last night was magical, cant believe he only recorded one session for the BBC.
After last night I am sure there will be a few JC CD's sold over the weekend by folks who had never been into him but saw last nights prog.
Raw emotion at its very best

 

[El Presidente]

Agree 100% about hurt. He turned a junkie's self pitying lament into a superbly emotional piece of work


see it at

http://www.nme.com/features/104451.htm

 

[Sorrel]

I saw him at Glastonbury too, so it wasn't a dream. Though actually, considering my condition it may be that we had the same dream. 1994, I think.

 

[simon swagbag]

F*cking hell I was almost in tears at the end of that 'Hurt' video.
Not because Cash has just died, but the sheer gravity of those lyrics & the arrangement of the music.
In a world where 99% of song lyrics seem to mean nothing, here was a piece where every line cut straight into you. Intense doesn't come close.

 

[fatbadger]

Not a real fan of C&W but bought Cash's last album after seeing the video to Hurt.

The point about Johnny Cash is that he is not a Country and Western artist, he is a Country artist. C&W has come to mean both genres, but it is important, really, to separate them.