# Johnny Cash...... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448 "2001-07-14T03:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/1 "2001-07-14T03:48:31Z")
I could listen to him 24 hours a day. I do not consider him a country music artist. Without “pigeon-holing” him, I choose to think he spans both country and folk. Guess I just “pigeon-holed” him anyway didn’t I? 🙂 What I mean to say is that with that deep voice of his, he makes me feel like I’m what he’s singing about or the guy doing the singing. Where do you put that in the genre of music? And it’s such simple music, too. If you’ve never heard him, then listen. If you have, I need explain no further. God bless Johnny Cash… Quasi ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/2 "2001-07-14T03:50:40Z")
Amen. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/3 "2001-07-14T04:29:08Z")
It’s just timeless music, like Woody Guthrie. Sung in a voice like God with a wicked hangover. Go, Johnny, go. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/4 "2001-07-14T04:37:29Z")
Gotta respect his tackling Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage.” ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/5 "2001-07-14T04:52:44Z")
Johnny is very cool. ring O’ fire baby. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/6 "2001-07-14T04:59:43Z")
My boy Johnny also does a fine cover of U2’s “One”. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/7 "2001-07-14T05:19:30Z")
I used to love that intro. I knew I was in for a good tv show. You can hear it here; > **[Home | Johnny Cash Official Site](https://www.johnnycash.com/)** > > Johnny Cash is one of the most important artists in music history. View songs, albums, biography, photos, timeline, news, tour history and more. Yep, a treasure. Is he still popular in Japan? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/8 "2001-07-14T13:20:41Z")
You took the words right out of my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/9 "2001-07-14T16:00:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I do not consider him a country music artist. Without “pigeon-holing” him, I choose to think he spans both country and folk. Guess I just “pigeon-holed” him anyway didn’t I? 🙂 “Oh, we’ve got both kinds of music here – country AND Western!” :rolleyes: Yeah, I’d say you pigeon-holed him. Don’t mess with the Man in Black. 🙂 “My name is Sue. How do you do?” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/10 "2001-07-14T18:24:22Z")
Yeah, Johnny’s one of the few “country” guys I have to respect. Its too bad he doesn’t get much air play any more. I have to point out that I live not too far from where he lives, and you **never** hear his stuff on the radio anymore! (Not that I listen to the country stations, but trust me, in Nashville, you **know** what’s on all the country stations without **ever** having to listen to them!) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/11 "2001-07-14T18:42:48Z")
I got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/12 "2001-07-14T19:39:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katiekilldare \* > \*\*My boy Johnny also does a fine cover of U2’s “One”. \*\* Oh lord, please spare me that one. I love the man, but this sounded like a parody to me. But I loved his collaboration with U2. “They say they want the kingdom, but they don’t want God in it,” is one of my favorite lines to quote. His latest stuff on American Records is just awesome. Just his voice and a guitar, or a few instruments thrown in. “That Lucky Sun (Rollin’ Round Heaven All Day)” is a beautiful piece of work. One time, I was in Borders when a song over the PA caught my attention. I couldn’t quite hear the words, but eventually I understood that it was JC singing. There was something in the voice, the phrasing, the world weariness that made me stop in the middle of the busy store, and all I wanted to do at that moment was get inside that song and HEAR it. Later, I tracked it down. It was “Mercy Seat,” and it knocked me on my ass hearing it in full. (Also fun to hear are his sessions with Bob Dylan back in the '60s. JC’s presence and phrasing just rang rings around Bobby, even doing something as simple as “You Are My Sunshine.”) Ah, wonderful man. God blessed us with him. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/13 "2001-07-14T21:24:00Z")
The first album I bought was a Johnny Cash collection…I always admired his music and I finally got some cd’s this year…it’s all timeless stuff, and he has the voice of authority. Johnny is an uncompromised original, and you can tell that he stands behind his convictions because his daughter Roseanne is the same…Thank you for the music, Johnny… Keith ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/14 "2001-07-14T23:27:21Z")
My uncle and I have this sort of competition, where we send each other CDs as sort of back-handed comments on each others taste in music. I think he’s winning, though, because the stuff he’s sending me is usually so freakin’ good. Johnny Cash was his latest salvo, but before that he fixed me up with Miles Davis, Ray Price, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. I now maintain that Johnny Cash can’t be country and western, because I _like_ Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/15 "2001-07-14T23:33:56Z")
I have a long relationship with Johnny Cash’s music. My half-brother’s father (got that?) listened to him non-stop. I thought he was the coolest and so was anyone who listened to him. To me he’s just bad-ass, I believe every lyric he sings is somehow based in real experience and, if it isn’t, then he’s a hell of a story teller. Yeah…I would say he was probably the single most influential musician of “rockabilly” that spawned the likes of The Cramps, The Reverend Horton Heat and The Flametrick Subs. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/16 "2001-07-15T01:35:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*I got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime > You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town. \*\* Ha ha. everybody, hippies and all, loved that song (story). Thanks, **Bill H** , I’d forgotten it. Here, for the enjoyment of those interested, are the lyrics; [http://www.toptown.com/hp/66/onepiece.htm](http://www.toptown.com/hp/66/onepiece.htm) Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/17 "2001-07-15T02:07:34Z")
Didn’t he do the voice of Homer’s Spiritial Coyote Guide on the Simpsons? You know, the hallucinagenic chilli pepper story? ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/18 "2001-07-15T03:30:52Z")
I love Johnny Cash!! Thanks for the link mangeorge! I had to go listen to “Rusty Cage” I wasn’t aware he’d done that. One of my favorites: “Because your mine, I walk the line” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/19 "2001-07-15T03:42:01Z")
Another obvious fave: Ring of Fire. Boy Named Sue, another great story And of course the immortal line, “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die” ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448/20 "2001-07-15T04:36:10Z")
I e-mailed my local radio station (not C&W) and requested some Johnny Cash. We’ll see. Peace, mangeorge [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash/72448.md?page=2)