Johnny Cash Only

I’m sure no fan of Johnny Cash.

His first wife and mother of his four children was a friend of mine as Vivian Cash and I bowled together many years ago. As a friend she was beautiful, inside and out. He made life hell for her with his drug and alcohol addictions, not to mention women.

He wrote “I Walk the Line” for Vivian and when I hear him sing that it turns my stomach.

He was a liar and a cheat just like so many others of his kind, and June Carter is no better.

I watched his last performance in 2003 and when he started singing “I Walk the Line” with no apparent shame, he proved once again he hadn’t learned a dang thing.

Being generous on the other hand, maybe when he sang it for the last time he was thinking of her. He died in 2003 and Vivian died in 2006.
 

Kayelle said:
I’m sure no fan of Johnny Cash.

His first wife and mother of his four children was a friend of mine as Vivian Cash and I bowled together many years ago. As a friend she was beautiful, inside and out. He made life hell for her with his drug and alcohol addictions, not to mention women.

He wrote “I Walk the Line” for Vivian and when I hear him sing that it turns my stomach.

He was a liar and a cheat just like so many others of his kind, and June Carter is no better.

I watched his last performance in 2003 and when he started singing “I Walk the Line” with no apparent shame, he proved once again he hadn’t learned a dang thing.

Being generous on the other hand, maybe when he sang it for the last time he was thinking of her. He died in 2003 and Vivian died in 2006.
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Welcome to the forum, @Kayelle, and thanks for sharing!
 
Johnny turned this poem into a song....
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was teacher aide for a special needs student (8th grade autistic). he had an assignment to do a power-point presentation on a poet/poem and was clueless where to start. so teacher gave him Shel Silverstein... pretty scary looking dude who wrote some pretty tame poems geared at kids. in our research, discovered SS wrote "a boy named sue". if course, my kid had never heard of SS nor JC!?! sad, huh? teacher was allowing video clips but he was scared to include that classic line near the end of the song!


oh, SS also wrote "the cover of the rolling stone"!
 

Johnny & Shel

"Silverstein said the inspiration for "A Boy Named Sue" came from his friend, radio announcer and humorist Jean Shepherd, who'd been teased as a kid because of his feminine first name. "I fist-fought my way through every grade in school," Shepherd later said. "
 
Johnny Cash's former HIDEAWAY home that he owned the last 30 years of his life!
Located in Bon Aqua, TN
 
The day Johnny Cash's voice walked in the door

“Don’t ever take voice lessons again,” the teacher told Cash. “Don’t let me or anyone change how you sing.”


"Cash built his mythic self to fit his actual voice, behaving as if it had arrived from somewhere else, as if the voice (like a flame) had traveled a great distance to get here. This was correct. As the story goes, Cash’s voice presented itself to him late in his adolescence. It just showed up one day, unannounced, there to be misunderstood and wasted, like any other blessing. His mother was a simple woman but she referred to his voice as The Gift".


"Its snarl, however full of bombast and sanctimony it might have been, also had a lazy cruelness to it, a sense of malignant power held in reserve. It was like an ink drawn from some prior place. Cash would always imply that his voice did not come from his own earthly person but from a spectral elsewhere, outside of him, coming on like the Holy Ghost, selecting him and then commencing its ravishing. There was no way he could have prepared himself for its arrival. He had been working when he received it, simply doing his chores, adding his blood and sweat to the family engine, keeping on keeping on. “When I was 17,” he wrote, “I had been cutting wood all day with my father and I came in and I was singing a gospel song, ‘Everybody’s gonna have a wonderful time up there, Glory hallelujah.’” (Continue)
 

Marty Stuart: "I'm on the World Stage Now". The Incredible Story of Johnny Cash + Favorite Musicians​


In this clip Marty talks about meeting and touring with Johnny Cash and what an incredible experience that was.
 

Johnny Cash, the Carter Family & John Carter Cash in Ireland​

This performance took place in Dublin (Ireland) in 1993.
 

John Carter Cash "Ring of Fire"​

John McEuen & Friends Featuring John Carter Cash performing "Ring of Fire" Special Christmas Show & John McEuen's 70th Birthday at Music City Roots Live From The Factory on 12.16.2015
 

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