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Steven Shrewsbury
Wandering Member
Post Number:
210
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:33 am: |   |
I know this has nada to do w/books, but Johnny Cash died at 71. Yeah, amazing he lived this long...but it still kills me.
My ol' dad was a railroad worker until the mid 70s. I knew the train songs before I was 5. My dad's voice resonated like Cash's and I always liked Johnny. His HURT video and song were great. I was thrilled when he made new music with AMERICAN RECORDINGS and Rick Rubin.
Is it silly to be this sad over a singer I never met? Probably.
Gonna be a bad day at work today...
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F.E. Mazur (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:43 am: | |
Nothing wrong about feeling for the death of a singer. I just noted the other day that it was Johnny Cash who does the voice-over for the tv commercial that puts a jet engine on a Wright Brothers airship. I love that commercial.
Also, Warren Zevon died this past week. His musics, lyrics especially, were unique: "Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it.'
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Todd Hunter
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
683
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:45 am: | |
We all have the right to get sad over the death of artists we've enjoyed...
I don't see it as silly at all... |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1150
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 05:52 am: | |
Johnny Cash was an American icon, and has been for a long long time.
It is a sad loss.
John Ritter also died today (of the Jack Tripper in 3's Company fame).
CEW |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2270
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:06 am: | |
Yes, an American icon for sure. Johnny Cash. A basically decent man who strayed far from the fold but found his way back.
I was raised in a tiny town in Kansas. My mother worked at the local photography studio, where they also sold musical instruments and the accessories. One day she came home from work more excited than I had ever seen her. She said she waited on a tall man who needed guitar strings. He asked if he could pay by credit card. She said if he had ID to prove who he was. He grinned that telltale grin of his and said "Yes ma'am I have ID, but I thought perhaps you might know me."
She said he looked familiar but she could not place him. He said "Why Ma'am, I'm Johnny Cash." She was so thrilled she forgot to get his autograph, and said he was MUCH handsomer in person than he is in movies or on TV." |
Kevin R. Paglia
Awareness Member
Post Number:
27
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:46 am: | |
The very first concert I ever went to was a JC concert. I was all of tenish. When i got my first car and it only had an 8-track (and this was late Eighties) I found an old JC 8-track and played it almost nonstop (maybe that was why I couldn't get any dates). I still have a cassette of his greatest hits and when Isabella is fussy I sing JC songs to her it doesn't stop her crying but I figure one good wail deserves another).
Kevin |
Stephanie S. Sawyer
Awareness Member
Post Number:
40
Registered: 08-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:46 am: | |
The loss of those we have really enjoyed and and from whom we have gained is devastating even if from afar. I hope, Stephen, that you listen to Cash's songs all day long, and I bet it won't be difficult to access.
I went bonkers a few months ago with Jean-Pierre Rampal, world renown flautist (flute) died. I only knew him through performance, but it sent me absolutely over the edge. I played the piece he was most renown for to me all day long.
And when Paul Simon goes or Art Garfunkel, watch out!
Musicians are such a gift to us.
I thing I'll stop here - (walking away humbly)
- Stephanie |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
616
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:43 am: | |
When I was but 16, I was an art major in school, and there was a call out to all art students for album cover designs for Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" album. My teacher submitted one of my designs and it placed in the top 3 for final approvals. I stilll have the mock up for it. The design was a great large ring of fire sort of like a hoop, with a woman on her knees in the middle of it. She had woe all over her face. One of the major songs on that album was "I Walk the Line" and although I didn't get the final pick, it was a great honor to even be in the running. He personally picked out the top 15 designs. He sent my school a note saying thanks for sending the artwork of a very talented artist and hoped that I would go far in the art world. The school still has that note. I always loved his songs, they were grit and rough and kind and tugged at a part of my soul. I still have about 5 or 6 albums of his and who knows the many countless other songs that he wrote and produced, but we don't even know it, cause he put other names on many of them. I will miss him.
And about John Ritter, he was so young, and still had much to give to the world of acting. He was a most talented comedian, who knew exactly when to use that punch line, as if by genes, which he most certainly had, being Tex Ritter's son. That death is much sadder, in many ways, because he was still so young. Life has a funny way of snuffing out, sometimes when it is most inopertune.
It is not by any means a wrong thing to feel sad when someone that we have loved, liked, or felt emotion stir us in any way, by something that that person has given to our lives, dies. That is part of our experience in our part of life. To not feel anything when someone who has had powerful emotions stir us is the most sad part of dying. If you feel strongly about something, enough to cry over it or to even feel a tear in your eyes, means that the person you are thinking about has touched your heart, and that is what most people who entertain us for one song, one book, one play or movie, one piece of artwork, or many more, is aiming towards in their life. To not honor them with that tear or broken gasp is to negate the life that they strived so hard to fulfill. In our own little ways, it is something that we, as writers, are trying so hard to put our selves out there for.
Claudia |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
347
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 08:21 pm: | |
Artist(s): JOHNNY CASH (N031140)
Title: UNEARTHED 5-CD SET
Our Price: $64.99
5 CD box containing 79 tracks from the American Recordings era. Unearthed
consists of 64 songs/4 entire discs of never-before-heard recordings. One of
the new discs is My Mothers Hymn Book a complete never released solo
acoustic spiritual album. Deluxe packaging includes 104 page cloth bound
book, never before seen photographs and Johnny's personal comments, thoughts
and memories about every song in the box.
Unearthed Volume One. Who's Gonna Cry
1. Long Black Veil
2. Flesh And Blood
3. Just The Other Side Of Nowhere
4. If I Give My Soul
5. Understand Your Man
6. Banks Of The Ohio
7. Two Timin' Woman
8. The Caretaker
9. Old Chunk Of Coal
10. I'm Going To Memphis
11. Breaking Bread
12. Waiting For A Train
13. Casey's Last Ride
14. No Earthly Good
15. The Fourth Man In The Fire
16. Dark As A Dungeon
BONUS TRACKS:
17. Book Review
18. Down There By The Train
Unearthed Volume Two. Trouble in Mind
1. Pochahontas
2. I'm A Drifter (Version 1)
3. Trouble In Mind
4. Down The Line
5. I'm Movin' On
6. As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
7. Heart Of Gold
8. The Running Kind (with Tom Petty)
9. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
10. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (with Carl Perkins)
11. "T" For Texas
12. Devil's Right Hand
13. I'm A Drifter (Version 2)
BONUS TRACKS:
14. Like A Soldier (with Willie Nelson)
15. Drive On (Alternate Lyrics)
16. Bird On A Wire (Live with orchestra)
Unearthed Volume Three. Redemption Songs
1. A Singer Of Songs
2. The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
3. Redemption Song (with Joe Strummer)
4. Father And Son (with Fiona Apple)
5. Chattanooga Sugar Babe
6. He Stopped Loving Her Today
7. Hard Times
8. Wichita Lineman
9. Cindy (with Nick Cave)
10. Big Iron
11. Salty Dog
12. Gentle On My Mind (with Glen Campbell)
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. You'll Never Walk Alone
BONUS TRACK:
15. The Man Comes Around (Early take)
Unearthed Volume Four. My Mother's Hymn Book
1. Where We'll Never Grow Old
2. I Shall Not Be Moved
3. I Am A Pilgrim
4. Do Lord
5. When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
6. If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven
7. I'll Fly Away
8. Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
9. Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
10. When He Reached Down
11. In The Sweet By And By
12. I'm Bound For The Promised Land
13. In The Garden
14. Softly And Tenderly
15. Just As I Am
Unearthed Volume Five. Best of Cash on American
1. Delia's Gone
2. Bird On A Wire
3. Thirteen
4. Rowboat
5. The One Rose
6. Rusty Cage
7. Southern Accents
8. Mercy Seat
9. Solitary Man
10. Wayfaring Stranger
11. One
12. Hung My Head
13. The Man Comes Around
14. We'll Meet Again
15. Hurt
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2405
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 04:44 am: | |
Where was that listed, Steven? That would be worth having. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
348
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 05:55 am: | |
I got it from a Hank Williams III Cusiin' board actually 
I knew it was to be released, even before he died. It is not out YET, however...as many annoyed shop owners told me last wed as I searcehd for it everywhere during Christmas shopping.
BTW, none of these tracks are from the 30-40 tracks he recorded last summer after June died.
Johnny doing HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY will be killer. |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2409
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 07:11 am: | |
It will fade from my memory so if you locate it somewhere when it goes on sale...let me know. My southern Appalachian husband would especially love the gospel songs in Volume four. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
351
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 07:16 am: | |
No prob. I am a major league Cash fan, so I will drop you a line or tell all here. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
370
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 04:22 pm: | |
Saw the Johnny Cash tribute on CMT over the weekend. Pretty cool, but very sad for alot of reasons.
Sheryl(Cheryl?) Crow singing HURT?
argh.
But much of it was ok. |
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