what is your favorite Johnny Cash song?

I have two. "the ragged old flag" which is spoken word and "boy named sue". I grew up on Johnny Cash and his band of highwaymen.

i have many many recordings of johnny cash, if anyone is interested in hearing some more obscure stuff.

How amusing. A year, year and a half ago, how many Goths would have cared that Johnny Cash died? But cover one mediocre Nine Inch Nails song, and the "black black" will be worn in his honor.

ahh, but i have listened to johnny cash all my life, because of my grandpa. same as the statler brothers, tom t. hall hank williams sr and a few others. but then again, im special.

I was born and raised in Tennessee.

I knew who Johnny Cash was before I'd ever even heard of NIN. And I only think I've heard that cover once.

But, I feel yer pain Caustic.

Posers...lol.

I've been a Cash fan as long as I can remember, and am sad to see him go. It is amazing to me that a man so close to the end of his life could produce some of his best work ever. The albums that he released on American records were all outstanding.

I suppose favorites would have to be Walk the Line, Tennessee Stud, Get Rythem, and I Never Picked Cotton. Did the man record a bad song? I don't think so. On a side note, did anyone happen to see the ad he placed in Billboard magazine several years ago thanking Nashville and country radio for all of the support they showed him and older country musicians? Flipped them the bird with a snarl that seemed to say "F yez all!" Hilarious. I 'd love a color picture of that I could frome of him showing them all where they can stick it!

There'll never be another like him.

The Man in Black was one of my biggest heroes as a kid. A few of my favorite songs... Tennessee Flattop Box, The Rebel-Johnny Yuma, and Remember The Alamo.
RIP, Johhny.

BTW, screw NIN. Did you check out that album he worked on with Glen Danzig?

I'm not really fond of Johnny Cash's music.

sunday morning coming down

Orange blossom special, 25 minutes to go, long black veil, Dailea's gone (spell) and even though I only heard it after I was tricked into watching the mtv awards yeah I liked hurt too.

Doh forgot, I went out walking and rings of fire

sad day......I adore Cash
I walk the line, Ballad of a Teenage Queen, Boy named Sue (and that has special meaning because I actually have a friend who is a boy named Sue).
I have a few albums of his on vinyl....I've been listening to him for a long time. My granny and pawpaw (yep I'm a Tennessean) always played old country....classic country, not this pop shit they call country now, and so I grew up on it.

As Celticsmith will probably say, now Johnny is the ultimate goth, he's dead. Bless you Johnny for all you did for many generations of music lovers

iblis wrote:I'm not really fond of Johnny Cash's music.

There there, ibbie. Me neither.

Tennesee Flaptop Box is one of my early favoirtes. I like becasue it's got a different rythemn then what he normally sings. I'm also a big fan of Deilas Gone. Him and June Carter did a great version of Dylan' s "It's aint me babe".

Actually ihe's been a hot youth commodity for a good long while now. For me the Johnny Cashy rennesaince started in 1994 when American Recordings was released. And wouldn't you know it I found a web article to further expound on that...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 103700.stm

I don't think his last album was his best work...at the time it came out I thought that he sounded a bit too wooden. But what did impress me then was his choice of songs to cover. He had a great ear for songcraft. He looked beyond genre's and saw the songs for what they were devoid of lables. For a man in his seventies that's to be commended. Most people get shallower in thier artistic taste as they grow older complaining about the new music. This guy saw the diamonds in the dark. And inspiration to any pesuasion.

Seraph Antaine wrote:BTW, screw NIN. Did you check out that album he worked on with Glen Danzig?

i just wish Cash woulda done the rest of the songs glenn wrote for him.......... ESP come to silver..and danzig did go back and record his version of 13 on danzig 6. not as good as cash, but good....

the man in black is one of my heros. ive molded myself after him in many ways and every year that passes is a year i find myself feeling more and more like hes an older incarnation of me that succeed. ive always looked up to him, i always will. i feel really fucking strange now knowing hes dead....in this day and age its really hard to have any kind of hero or role model. i think its frowned upon. now one of my big ones had joined the ranks of the fallen.
BUT DONT MOURN!!! hes playing guitar on the steps of heaven with june by his side with an ear to ear smile wondering why all those folk on earth are sad. the man has came around, lets all march behind him singing congrats. now hes got everything he wants.

I was raised on Johnny Cash, Ac/Dc, and troma films. Hearing this makes my childhood disappear a peice at a time.

One of the songs on one of his last CDs was about someone frying in the electric chair... "and I think my head is burning..."

That was a very powerful song. But I love all things Johnny. Dad took me to see him when I was about 5 or 6...my very first concert. I remember June coming out shortly after him. They loved each other so!

He will always be a role model for me, too. Death won't take that away. I'm happy he's with June again, but we will miss him sorely.

Caustic wrote:How amusing. A year, year and a half ago, how many Goths would have cared that Johnny Cash died? But cover one mediocre Nine Inch Nails song, and the "black black" will be worn in his honor.

Actually I have been saying he was "OG" for over 10 years.

i can't pick 2

"the beast in me"
"goin to memphis"
"folsom prison blues"
"i never picked cotton"
"austin prison"
"cocaine blues"

for any of you that don't have
i suggest the box set

love god murder
3 discs about those 3 subjects
it's a great set

my fav cash song is cocaine blues.

EARLY ONE MORNIN' WHILE MAKIN' THE ROUNDS
I TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN
I WENT RIGHT HOME AND I WENT TO BED
I STUCK THAT LOVIN' 44 BENEATH MY HEAD
GOT UP NEXT MORNIN' AND I GRABBED THAT GUN
TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND AWAY I RUN
MADE A GOOD RUN BUT I RUN TOO SLOW
THEY OVERTOOK ME DOWN IN WARREN MEXICO
LAID IN THE HOT JOINT TAKIN' THE PILL
IN WALKED A SHERIFF FROM JERACO HILL
HE SAID WILLY LEE YOUR NAME IS NOT JACK BROWN
YOU'RE THE DIRTY HACK THAT SHOT YOUR WOMAN DOWN
OH YES OH YES MY NAME IS WILLIE LEE
IF YOU'VE GOT A WARRANT JUST A READ IT TO ME
I SHOT HER DOWN CAUSE SHE MADE ME SLOW
I THOUGHT I WAS HER DADDY BUT SHE HAD FIVE MORE
WHEN I WAS ARRESTED I WAS DRESSED IN BLACK
THEY PUT ME ON A TRAIN AND THEY TOOK ME BACK
I HAD NO FRIEND FOR TO GO MY BAIL
THEY SLAPPED A DIME OF CARCUS IN THE COUNTY JAIL
EARLEY NEXT MORNING ABOUT A HALF PAST NINE
I SPOTTED A SHERIFF WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE
MY DADDY COUGHED AS HE CLEARED HIS THROAT
HE SAID COME ON YOU DIRTY HACK INTO THE DISTRICT COURT
INTO THE COURT ROM MY TRIAL BEGAN
WHERE I WAS HELD BY TWELVE HONEST MEN
BEFORE THE JURY STARTED OUT
I SAW THAT LITTLE JUDGE COMMENCE TO LOOK ABOUT
IN A BOUT FIVE MINUTES IN WALKED A MAN
HOLDING THE VERDICT IN HIS RIGHT HAND
THE VERDICT READ IN THE FIRST DEGREE
I HOLLERED LORDY LORDY HAVE MERCY ON ME
THE JUDGE HE SMILED AS HE PICKED UP HIS PEN
NINETY NINE YEARS IN THE FEDERAL PEN
NINETY NINE YEARS UNDERNEATH THAT GROUND
I CAN'T FORGET THE DAY I SHOT THAT BAD BITCH DOWN
COME ON COME ON AND LISTEN UNTO ME
STAY OFF THAT WHISKEY AND LET THAT COCAINE BE

Ya know, its the cool thing to say you loved cash today, but like some people here....i must concur i have lived here...for...all of my life- My grandfather raised my ass on Hank Sr, Cash, and Willie Nelson....I'll even go as far to say for my allowance at the end of the week one week, i made my father buy a willie nelson album, at 3 i knew these 3 gentlemen whipped that ass.

I also remember grade school....and being told daily..."huh huck, whatcha tryin to be...johnny cash" My simple response...."i can totally play the first half of his best of album at my grandpas"

I personally wasn't really a fan of the Hurt cover. I liked Personal Jesus better the first few times i heard the album....Of course his cover of Desperado on the album, also made me happy, since i consider that song, a personal anthem for myself...sorta.... Again, being a Hank Sr fan as well- his cover of I'm so lonesome is very nice. Of the original (i think) material on the album, Give my love to Rose, and Sam Hall are fucking great. True Love, and Raising Hell.....fucking great.

Older Stuff......(most of these have been mentioned) I walk the line, Tennesee Flat Top, Get Rhythem, Don't Take Your Guns to town, Folsom Prison, Daddy Sang Bass, Man In Black, Ghost Riders in the Sky *the version with willie on VH1 storytellers is BADASS* Highwayman *with the rest of the highwaymen* and Delia's Gone.

for possibly the last 2 or 3 years Cash has been the first thing you see when you walk into my house.....saying hello...with his middle finger.

Mother Mo wrote:One of the songs on one of his last CDs was about someone frying in the electric chair... "and I think my head is burning...".

That was a cover of Nick Cave's song, "The Mercy Seat," in fact, off the NC&tBS album Tender Prey. Damn good song, and a good cover of it.

I don't remember a time I didn't know Johnny Cash songs by heart. My favorite recordings of his are Sea of Heartbreak, Ballad of Ira Hayes, Highwayman, and Cry Cry Cry.

As i wrote in my journal earlier, he may have been known for wearing black, but damn, did he paint a lot of colors across the face of this old world...