Johnny Cash is a legend

[blueaguave]

Whether or not so-called country radio plays his records anymore, Johnny Cash is a legend the world over. His latest album debuted at #11 on the Billboard charts, the only artist in Billboard's Top 200 w/out mainstream radio or video play!!!
Cash was one of the founding fathers of Rock n Roll at Sun Records, along with Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin Wolf, and others. When Sam Phillips tried to tell what he could or couldn't sing, he promptly left for Columbia. Long before it was fashionable to care about the American Indian, cash came out with the brilliant album "Bitter Tears" about the plight of the Native Americans. His life was threatened by the KKK at the time.
When a young Robert Allan Zimmmerman wrote Cash a fan letter and sent him some of his songs, Cash helped him get a contract at Columbia. Mr Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, returned the favor a couple years ago when he headlined a star studded tribute to cash at the Hammerstein Ballrom in Manhattan. Other artists paying tribute included U2, Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Cheryl Crow, and many others. Many of the artists said they wouldn't be musicians if it wasn't for Johnny Cash.
Some of his greatest songs include the humorous "One Piece at a Time" and "Boy Named Sue", the serious "Man in Black", "Ring of Fire", and of course the legendary "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I walk the Line"

[Statchmo]

I absolutely love his vocal on "The Wanderer" on U2's record "Zooropa". Can't imagine anyone else singing that song, and apparently U2 couldn't either. What a voice.

[sweetcindy]

Hmmmm my Dad played with Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis (my middle name is after him)...the music may be legendary, but trust me, they as men are not.

Cindy

[blueaguave]

for more country music history, I'm reading a great book about the Allman Bros that I got on sale at Borders!!!!