Johnny Cash-the Man in Black

Alone with the Man in Black

"I went to do an interview (LINK) with Johnny Cash - he so moved me that I gave up my job and became a novelist". -Louisa Young The Guardian, Wednesday 17 September 2003.

"So there I was, sitting in Johnny Cash's front room in Hendersonville, Tennessee, about 10 or 12 years ago.(1988) He'd been with journalists most of the day and I was the last. A couple, I knew from chatting to them, were hacks with less than no interest in country music. I was worse - I was a fan".
 
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I know this is not your typical Johnny Cash song, but I think it suits his voice well, and I like it.

Any Old Wind That Blows - 1973

 
I have loved listening to Johnny Cash since I first heard him singing "I Walk the Line", so many years back. My folks had gone from Idaho to California because my grandmother had passed away down there, and they had to make the funeral arrangements. I took my little portable radio along with me, and listened to music while we were there, and this was when I first heard Johnny Cash, and that wonderful guitar beat.
When we got back home to Idaho, I called into the request line and asked them to play I Walk the Line, and they had never heard of the song , or of Johnny Cash !
It was almost a month later, when it was probably topping the charts, before my little town finally got the record to play for us on the request line.
I used to have most of the early albums, and my kids grew up listening to and singing along with Johnny Cash.
I think of all of his songs, this is the one I love the most.

 
How-dee!!!

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Casey Jones
I wish the video were clearer. Best viewed in full screen or theater mode. I think this is part of a longer video posted in the train thread. I always liked this song. We had it on a player piano roll. (I posted it in that thread. Lyrics were very different.)

 
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