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Thursday, April 16. 2020

Johnny Cash's last performance

2003, aged 71. He looks like 99 years old.




Posted by Bird Dog at 16:22 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I first heard "I walk the Line" in the 1950s when I was in the Marines.

It was in an on-base Bar (we called them 'Slop Chutes"}.

Every one of us stopped talking, shooting pool and drinking.
Young men, away from their wives and girlfriends.

We were in awe. It hit a nerve.
#1 oolioo on 2020-04-16 16:29 (Reply)
That's what you call "Rode hard and put up wet." His voice was still fairly strong compared to how weak Leon Russell's voice was at the end of his career for example.
#2 mudbug on 2020-04-16 16:39 (Reply)
Cash, Ray Charles and Miles Davis were me and my buds favorites back in the late 60's, especially after a round or three
#3 easy on 2020-04-16 19:15 (Reply)
He was an American original, a classic musician who skirted the worlds of church, country, addiction, outlaw, etc. Some of the songs on the American recordings he did with Rick Rubin producing were classics:
His rendition of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" was amazing as well as "Desperado" , "Like a Soldier" off the first American recording is the best recovery song I've ever heard. The Vietnam song "Drive On " is classic. I think my favorite Cash song ever is a little song called "Country Trash" about hardscrabble living in Kentucky or Tennessee
#4 Trangbang68 on 2020-04-16 20:34 (Reply)
Boy, that's just sad.
#5 snopercod on 2020-04-16 21:15 (Reply)
Boy he does look 99.

I bet he owed it all to hard living.
#6 feeblemind on 2020-04-16 23:46 (Reply)
"It ain't the years honey, it's the mileage."
#7 TMan (Link) on 2020-04-17 00:25 (Reply)
Following him, the man, one noticed that after June died there was a steep decline, he went into a wheelchair almost immediately after her passing, and he died something like a year later (going from memory, if it was not a year, I stand corrected). After her death, it was over for him. Their relationship is a true love story in and of itself.
#8 tim ferrell on 2020-04-17 07:37 (Reply)
Not everyone can compress a century of earthly toil into our paltry threescore and ten. Even fewer can pull off "Understand Your Man".
#9 Gene on 2020-04-17 20:44 (Reply)

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