I have about 6 hours of his music on my old iPod. I think my favorite is his duet with June “Jackson.” I love the version off the Folsom Prison album where he tells her he likes the way she talks and she says “I’m talking with my mouth!” Lol.
I also love “Long Legged Guitar Picking Man” with June.
I actually saw he and June about 1997.
Since everybody keeps mentioning it:
...whoa, this just fucking levelled me...
Right?
This...this right here is the difference between a performer and an Artist.
I feel his pain in this. Truly moving
I think he did some great covers. Rusty cage, personal Jesus, Hurt, ++
I prefer the rougher material from his own music. With some nice stories in the lyrics. Cocaine blues, boy named Sue, solitary man, San Quentin, Folsom brison blues, ++
Oh yes I love the covers from when he worked with Rick Rubin. Some move me to tears. Yes, I'm sappy.
Use to be ...
Watch "Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down" on YouTube
I guess it still is...
I play guitar in a rockabilly band. We do Folsom Prison, Cocaine Blues, Ring of Fire, and Stripes.
I love a lot of his work, so to throw a slightly less common choice, i'll say "The Highwayman".
I'd love to be able to play these songs on guitar. I get about 15 minutes of trying to learn and get frustrated to the point I start thinking about selling my guitar :/
I love rockabilly....is there a stand up bass in the band?
Yes, we have stand up bass on stage about half the time. The other half, he's wandering through the crowd or behind the bar, lol.
Ok, not a huge fan of the genre, HOWEVER, JC has some cool, and very singable songs. I like to "sing" Karaoke and think I do a decent job with some of his songs, like Folsom Prison Blues and Orange Blossom Special. Enjoyed Joaquin Phoenix in his film as well. =]
I think most people that don't like country do like JC, or at least respect the impact he made.
Hurt
That's the one that brings me to tears!
Also a favorite, but I liked the Nine Inch Nails version too and miss the fact that Trent will never do it live now.
I love Johnny Cash. To me, this is one of his most touching performances - and speaks to the events of today as it did on the day he first performed it. Listen to his introduction, and feel the hurt, the anger, and the empathy that comes from this song. This is an unpolished and raw initial performance of the Man in Black.
I grew up with Johnny Cash music all around me and he was so popular with me that I played his songs sometimes even during my last marriage. My Kenya ex-wife learned to identify Johnny Cash music in the first 5 musical notes of a Cash song.
Overall our music interests were varied and still are.
Almost anything I hear Johnny do is good to great. Jackson, Ring of Fire and the list goes on forever. I sometimes put You-Tube videos of his concerts and they play all day long. The album - Mean as Hell is little known I think but fantastic.
Delia, oh Delia, my favorite Cash song. He did so many religious tunes that it can be difficult finding the good secular ones.