Johnny Cash-some songs?

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hey yeah i'm back ok well i heard about johnny cash this morning and i cried a lot :'( but i just want to know some songs by him well i want to know anything about him...i don't really no much about him...just from what my brother tells me so if you could tell me some songs and stuff about him that would be great

― Caitlin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Why were you crying?

― d k (d k), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Start by getting a collection of his Sun recordings.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I love his version of "Sixteen Tons," but it's only available on a couple of older Greatest Hits comps and a "Great Classic Country" comp that my grandfather ordered from TimeLife (that I've seen).

The standards - "Ring of Fire," "I Walk The Line," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Girl From The North Country" (w/ Bob Dylan), "A Boy Named Sue," "Man In Black."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

He does a strong Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, one of my favourite country songs:
I woke up Sunday mornin' with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The best place to start is the first 'American Recordings,' from '93 I think. It's just him and his guitar - no overproduction, no flourishes - just a fine set of songs about murder, love, Jesus, Vietnam, and trains. You can't go wrong.

― calstars (calstars), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Seconding "A Boy Named Sue".There's some famous footage of the man performing it live somewhere -- maybe the Grand Ol' Opry, I dunno -- and he's stomping out the stage lights as he does so like the bad motherfucker he so truly was. Bless'im.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"MY NAME IS SUE -- HOW DO YOU DO? -- NOW YOU GONNA DIE!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

heard an astonishing song on bbc 6 this a.m. while they were in big time tribute mode : 'when the man comes around' off a recent 90's album. it was ace though, as radios 2, 6 and xfm all had tracks on the go today and the nme has a decent tribute. you dont get that all-across-the-board coverage with yer dead pop stars.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh ! his last album it was off.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

A thing called Love is kinda naff but it is one of my favourite songs.

― Coat Hanger (c_hanger), Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

best way to hear him
is on the live prison discs
folsom, san quentin

don't start in 90s,
start with his concept albums
back in the 60s

1969:
5 percent of US sales
were johnny cash discs*

*true!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Here you are

― Coat Hanger (c_hanger), Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ballad of the teenage queen

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Belshazar

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Laura Cantrell did a wonderful, reverential tribute on the Radio Thriftshop that spanned his best material over several decades. Listen (RealAudio link).

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

In the early 60's I had one of his L.P's and on it was the Rock Island Line... Country Boy. Sorry can't think of more. In the early seventies he had a very nice song ... Sunday Morning Coming Down.

― Gale, Monday, 15 September 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Laura Cantrell rules at tribute shows

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKujVmip1qY

Johnny is really in his element singing a train song, and "Casey Jones" is a classic

I love the part when Johnny gets so into character yelling "Jump Sam, jump!"

― modboots, Thursday, 3 June 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

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