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Johnny Cash had a rough life from childhood thru adult. Drug addiction and broken marriage. June Carter was his "saving grace". Walk the Line is a movie based on Johnny and June. June passed away and 4 months later Johnny did from heart failure (broken heart). But even though this song is a cover, it is very suiting for his life story. In the end, all he wanted was June. Nothing else mattered to him. Their love story is a topic of many other artists songs. Oh and thank you for all your reactions. They get me thru the long nights at work 😁
Tara Tacker When you lose the love of your life when you are elderly, no matter what the true cause of his death (diabetes and heart failure) you stop trying to live so you can be reunited with your love. So yes, I do believe in deaths due to broken hearts. For @DOM10
Very well put Tara, a friend of mine worked for Roseanne as a teacher nanny for her kids, She said the one thing she always waited on was for the phone to ring and at the other end John would say.. hello this is Johnny Cash. So Roseanne I guess told her dad that and sure enough she got the call one day and he said that when she picked up the phone
This song gives me chills, he is considered by most to be the greatest country artist of all time. They say he died from a broken heart bc his wife passed not too long before he did
As a little kid when Johnny was just starting his career back in the 50's I met Johnny and got his autograph. I was fortunate to have seen him perform twice. He was special.
@@RobertWorthLexus300 that would have been great! I'm 38 never got the chance..when i was young i listen to punk, rap and hip-hop..a older friend turned me on to cash, in late 90s he changed my whole outlook on music and been a fan ever since..the song hurt helped me through my drug recovery...as well as many more of his.
While this song is a cover. The way he brings his own interpretation to this song make it more powerful to me than the original version. Johnny did that alot.
The problem with Reznor's original recording, is that he was only 27 when he wrote the song. Go and listen to Reznor preforming it live these days. He's making it his own again.
Johnny Cash was once asked "Are you a country singer or a rock singer? Or both?" The Man in Black cocked his head stared the interviewer dead in the eye and intoned in that unmistakable baritone of his: "I'm an American singer."
@@garionfan1 One artist is in the Rock N Roll, Country, Rockabilly, Songwriters, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Johnny Cash. Elvis Presley is the only other in 4 of the 5 (not Songwriters, of course!). That's a music icon far greater than a country star!
@@FFVison have you heard his cover of Bob Marley's Redemption Song, as a duet with the Clash's Joe Strummer, Country Punk Reggae, truly genre transcending. And Johnny sings it in Bob Marley's Jamaican Patois lyrics.
Maybe I'm just reading something into it but when he closed the piano keyboard, I think of closing a casket and then he rubs the top the way I've seen people stroke the top of a casket.
If I remember correctly.. it was stated that he closed the piano att he end as a symbolic gesture. It was meant to represent the end. He knew his time was coming, and closing the piano was his curtain call.
This song was originally done by the band Nine Inch Nails. Trent wrote it in relation to his drug addiction and the pain that comes with it. In 2003 it was covered by Johnny Cash as one of the last songs he ever recorded prior to his death. It is said Trent Reznor the lead singer for Nine Inch Nails praised Cahs's version and loved it so much he is believed to have said "this song isn't mine anymore." Both Version are extremely beautiful and heart wrenching in their own ways.
YES! Thanks for what you already said. I wasn't sure of Reznor's exact quote but yeh after he heard Cash's version he gave up writing the song he wrote and said that the new owner was Cash. Classy response from Trent, eh?
Angela Pierce I was reading an article when he did this song and I remember reading that he really didn’t want to do this song but they convinced him to do this song. It was a wonderful cover and I sure do miss his music. He is (and always will be) a idol I look up to. Many of my songs that I have written have been influenced by JC and Elvis. Not to mention my grandpa played with J.C. when he was playing in Memphis before he got big. They grew up very close to one another. J.C. is from Dyess Arkansas and my grandpa was born in Dixie Arkansas
I think it was Reznor's manager or someone like that after he heard Cash's version said Trent was born to write that song, but Cash was born to sing it.
This was the song of a dying man. When I first heard this song and the the whole album it sounded like he was saying goodbye. He always had a somewhat dark side. His most popular themes in his music were violence, addiction and redemption. I even think that there was a retrospective of his music called Sin and Redemption. Once his wife June Carter died he seemed like his will to live ran out I think he died a few months after this album was released.
Everything about Johnny from Day 1 was dark. I'm a Metal guy myself, but Johnny was the man. He was pure Metal, even if his music wasn't. RIP to The Man in Black....
Johnny Cash's life's tale was one about redemption. He ended up being a very spiritual man and his upbringing and religious background became very strong towards the end of his career. He made a lot of bad choices through out his life, and you can see the pain of those choices through out much of his music. One of the best, if not greatest, story tellers in music.
i'm aware of my bible. I luv John but wasn't the prodical. saying that would mean u and I aren't forgived for our sins!!!! prodical son is a parable.Think of it this way, if u was sent to teach 3yr olds how to read, would ya whip out a tome of American Literature?????.....no. sorry dear. J Cash was blessed. def wasn't.
This is not the song of Johnny Cash's life, this is the story of regret most people take to their grave. The man in black just gave it wider understanding through art before his own end.
Imagine the person you have loved your entire life, your saving grace. passes away. It has to be devastating. It makes sense that so many older people die of broken hearts shortly after their loved ones pass away.
Originally this was a Nine Inch Nails song from “The Downward Spiral,” but Johnny made it his own. So much so that NIN took a break from performing it, and it is probably better known as a Cash song now. Johnny was a contemporary (and friend) of Elvis, and although he was a country artist he had a lot of crossover success. As others have said here, he traveled through some dark places, battled addiction, and had a number of marital problems. His first marriage didn’t survive his rise to fame, in part because he wasn’t faithful. He’d had a lifelong crush on June Carter, of The Carter Family, and when he got famous he met her, and they fell in love although both were married to other people at the time. June, a singer and songwriter herself, wrote “Ring of Fire” about falling in love with Johnny. Cash recorded it and had a huge hit with it. That’s June you see with him in the video every time he says “my sweetest friend.” She helped him beat his addiction problems and after several failed marriages of her own, she consented to marry him. They spent the rest of their lives together, had a son named John Carter Cash, and never gave up on each other. Although his health was more obviously failing, June died first and then he went soon after. I guess she always was the best part of him and he couldn’t bear to be without her.
This is the best cover ever, of any song or genre. Cash lived a hard life, and he had a dark side to him but June loved him anyway. He put so much emotion into this, he took it and made it his goodbye. Johnny was diabetic and had other health issues but I really think it was a broken heart that got him, he couldn't live without June.
Johnny Cash was an extremely spiritual man and he and his beloved June are at home with our Heavenly Father. Johnny had a tough life and made a lot of bad decisions but by God’s Grace and through His blood, He found redemption and is with the Lord. He sang old gospel like no one’s business and I love listening to him no matter what he sings. I grew up listening to Johnny Cash with my dad and even after my dad passed away 23 years ago, I always think of him when I listen. I named my black Fender acoustic guitar Johnny. Love your channel. God Bless my brother in Christ. ❤️
He died of natural causes. He was a Christian and he said this song was about his life, his sinfulness, his mistakes but through Christ he was forgiven and because of Christ his accomplishments meant nothing, He died shortly after his wife passed. She was also in the video. Thanks for the reaction.
As others have stated Nine Inch Nails did this originally. When the lead singer and writer of this song found out Johnny Cash was going to do it he didn't think it would work. After he listened and watched this video he was in tears and honored to have Johnny Cash record it! The video was shot in the Cash home in Nashville. June Carter Cash died two months after this video was shot. Johnny follow close behind her!
I had the honor of meeting Johnny and June in about 1998. It was long past the days of Johnny's addiction and wild lifestyle. He had long-since turned his life to Christ. They were absolutely the sweetest couple. Warm, friendly, down-to-earth and humble. The one thing you could tell, more than anything, was how much they loved each other. June still looked at him, the way a young girl looks at her first love...and Johnny treated her with amazing tenderness. We chatted for about 10 minutes and I will never forget it...even if I live to be a hundred. For your benefit MRM, Johnny was as big as they come. He is in both the country and rock & roll halls of fame. He was an international star and transcended genre...or really any box someone tried to put him in. Movie actor, host of a popular TV variety show, gold and platinum albums, sold out arena shows...Johnny did all of that...a true piece of Americana.
This video won a Grammy. It was a Nine Inch Nails song but Johnny Cash's version is way more powerful and he changed some lyrics for his own version. Johnny Cash passed away months after this song/video was released. He was a legend.
As I saw in some of the comments (Didn't read them all) this is a cover of a Trent Reznor song (Nine Inch Nails) when Trent heard Johnny's rendition, Trent said it was no longer his song. The song now belongs to Johnny Cash.
This song always seems to make me well up in tears, everytime I hear it. At the time the song was released, Johnny had just lost his wife, June Carter-Cash (also famous), just a few months before. You could tell he was getting ready to leave the world too. This song just sounded to me like he was singing his own funeral march! I was surprised to later learn that this was a cover of a Nine-Inch-Nails song, because it sounded like it was tailor-made for his life. Even Trent Reznor of the NIN thought this version of the song just had come out of a different soul.
To cap off the sadness of both June and Johnny passing away in the months following Johnny recording this song, the "House of Cash' where most of this was filmed burned to the ground, and all relics and memorobilia were lost...it happened in 2007...rest in peace June and Johnny...the memory of you will live on...
Cash led a hard life. Born poor. Achieved success fought alcohol and drug addiction and in the end he saw all his life from past to present and in opinion was singing about it and all the mistakes he made
Johnny was heartbroken when June died and it wasn't long after she passed that he died. His final public interview was so touching. He was a humble man who had a hard life.
Powerful interpretation. You could feel him reflecting over his life, and the challenges he had to overcome. He passed away a few months after the release of this video. Johnny was and is a music legend. RIP😢
He started Rock n Roll with Elvis Presley at Sun Records. Then he became the main Country Music singer from the 1950's - 1970's. His wife died a few years before and he died just after this video. It was released after he died and it went Platinum. Many Rap and Hip Hop stars gave tribute to Johnny Cash as a main influence on their music. My eyes tear when I watch this, especially when he shows Christ being crucified and he sings, you can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
Know him growing up in Jamaica. First saw him in concert there Dec.14, 1974 at the Rosehall Intercontinental Hotel officials opening, then 3 times in Miami including his last show. Not many people knew he lived in Jamaica for 30 yrs. Last few years he will be there every winter. When Waylon Jennings passed, he was very hurt, but Cash didn't go down hurting. He went home a spiritual man with grace. Love doing his songs at Karaoke.
They say he died of a broken heart as his beloved wife of 35 died just 4 months prior June Carter Cash Died May 15th 2003 ( 3 months after this was filmed), Johnny followed her 4 months later on September 12th 2003 (7 months after this was filmed) Sadly June's daughter from her 2nd marriage (Johnny was her 3rd and final) Rosie, passed away of accidental CO2 poisoning a month after Johnny died on October 24th 2003
Johnny Cash was a musical icon - literally. He died from a broken heart. After the love of his life, June Carter Cash (his wife) died - it was only a matter of time. All of his possessions and his musical empire meant nothing (dirt) to him because everyone he ever loved as passed on. He would have gladly found a way to trade every thing of his for his true love to come back. So sad. RIP Johnny Cash - I miss you.
Johnny Cash blew this away! And the emotion June brought to this....watching her man bring us one of his most powerful performances in their last recording together will last forever! Just wow! And btw...they both passed naturally....beautifully lived lives!
Yes! If you have not watched the movie yet, about his life, titled, "Walk The Line"...oh man, you ought to!! Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix did a PHENOMENAL job at portraying him...and they did all their own singing. Many critics have said that Joaquin sounded, eerily like Johnny Cash in his performance. You should definitely watch it. 💗 In fact... I think I'm going to again!
I didn't like Joaquin's portrayal of Johnny Cash's normal speaking voice. He made it sound too soft and high pitch. Johnny had more bass in his regular speaking voice.
The last line of the song, “I would keep myself, I would find a way,” tells that he knows he would not be the man he became had he not gone through the pain. He has regrets over those he hurt, and realized that the money and expensive things were really worth no more than dirt. The only things that mattered was a man’s internal worth, and the help and love you give others. Just my interpretation after seeing the movie I Walk The Line then seeing the video. Try the movie then watch the video again, brings a whole lot more meaning to it. Btw, I like the eyebrow thing; person gets some great expressions when you can arch just one brow.
Yes, I love that after the Nine Inch Nails gave this gift to the world with Trent's meaning and emotion poured out, Mr. Johnny Cash poured out his own emotions of loss, pain, anger, etc, in particular because of June's passing. Its subjective aspects make the song that much more powerful and special to everyone!! I struggle with almost everything this song speaks of, it's horrifically painful, but both songs give me hope sometimes to try to keep going on too. Take Care, Amanda
A country and pop legend,Johnny Cash rocked the world with this video. It was the Last Hurrah for the Man In Black. He had many crossover country/pop hits, especially in the sixties but still stayed successful on the country chart in the seventies. He was also a member of the country super-group The Highwaymen for a few years. You should hear one of his early big hits, the song called Ring Of Fire. There was no one like Johnny Cash!
Cash suffered through years of addictions, personal and financial loss. He married, divorced and remarried. He is most well known for his songs about prison and his support of reform. The Man In Black is a legend for very good reason. His beloved wife, June Carter Cash, passed away just after this video during heart surgery. Johnny Cash followed her 3 months later due to complications form diabetes and what many was a broken heart from his greatest loss.
He did of a broken heart as his wife June of 35 years had died a few months earlier. He was one of these last few singer still around from the days of 1950. His wife died in May and then he died in September of 2003. There is also a Documentary on June's family as she came from a famous one in Country music history before she married Johnny.
Hey its the 75 year old grandma again, He was a Christian but had lost his wife recently before making this video, He had overcome many addictions in his life, alcohol and drugs, he had a very good marriage and was a close friend to to Reverand Billy Graham, This song is a cover song he didn't write it, but I can understand his feelings, as you get older life can make you feel very much alone.Keep up the good work you are doing and please don't stop talking to us about your faith, people especially the young need to hear it.
June was IN this video so he could not have "lost his wife recently". I see so many people say that but the evidence speaks for itself. She IS A PART OF THIS VIDEO. I know that they jumped back and forth between Johnny and June's younger selves and their older selves so obviously she was in this as her younger self which came from recordings from their earlier lives but she also, as her elderly self, is standing just behind him on the staircase as he sings this song. June died shortly AFTER this video was made and then of course Johnny died a few months after that.
My husband of 44 years died almost two years ago miss him every day so I know how he feels. He is sick and ready to go to his beloved June and his body just stopped fighting. Such a heartbreaking song.
I believe that he is trying to convey love with the added gift of life’s experiences. He’s sharing what all of us should pay attention to, the moment we’re in and quit thinking about stuff we cannot change.
This came out shortly after his wife June Carter Cash died. Cash died of what I believe was a broken heart soon after he released this. He gave her a hard life because of his addictions. Despite that they were a loving couple whose sun rose and set on each other. I think he is reminiscing about what he had done to those he loved the most and how he wishes he could go back and clean the slate. What made Cash such a great singer was that life and the mistakes he made. In this video you can see the great Man in Black broken and all but gone. He is ready to go to the Lord. He is ready to see June and other who left before him. I believe this is his best song. Yes he is weak. His voice isn't as strong and deep as it was. We see Cash at his most vulnerable here, the most truthful. While he didn't write it (it is a Nine Inch Nails song) he lived it and I can feel that regret and loss in his voice but I also see it in his face and body language.
Johnny Cash had this unmistakable voice, much like Elvis. His voice made this song so beautiful and haunting. Johnny officially died of complications from diabetes, but really died of a broken heart. June Carter Cash, who is on the video standing on the stairs, died four months before he did. He couldn't go on without June.
Johnny Cash's version of "Swing low sweet chariot" is by far my favorite hymn so much so that I I played it at my grandma's funeral (she introduced me to Cash's music)...btw keep up the good work and reviews :) And yes it was in Logan, which to me was perfect for that movie and character.
I have been an admirer of The Man in Black since I was a little girl. He had a tumultuous life. A hard life filled with pain and addiction. His wife June Carter Cash meant everything to him. His daughter once told him that this song sounded like he was saying goodbye. His reply..."I am"
June died about 2 months after this came out, then Johnny died about 6 months later. When they are in the scene together, it’s almost as if she has passed on but is looking down, watching his pain and regret, while unable to help him. I think that’s the point of this interpretation of the song, him saying that all the money and accolades he received weren’t enough to make up for the heartache he caused her.
johnny cash, when he started, was a rock 'n' roll artist (instrumentation his music used electric instruments and traditionally country was just drums and acoustic strings) , he became country later on when he was part of the highway men which were three other country singer/songwriters (waylon jennings, willie nelson, and kris kristofferson) and when he began to write and sing music with June.
Johnny Cash's *"Sunday Morning Coming Down"* is great song about *despair,* told from the first-person perspective of an alcoholic who has given up hope. As depressing as that sounds, I think you would like it a lot both for its music and for its deep meaning. For the listener, the song builds empathy, rather than despair, starting out: "Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet, through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt. Then I washed my face and combed my hair, and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day." Johnny describes the happy sights and sounds he hears all around him -- a daddy swinging his laughing little daughter in the park, songs being sung inside a Sunday school he passes -- and it only makes him feel like dying -- and wishing he was "stoned" again -- because of his profound loneliness. Unlike his own life, the song never gets to "redemption" -- only the despair. Here's a RUclips link: ruclips.net/video/ED5s1-Fe9FA/видео.html
Johnny struggled his entire adult life with addiction. He beat it back with the help and love of true friends and family and in the end I feel like he was alone. Everyone that was a true friend had died before him. He left a legacy but I don’t think he ever truly found piece and this song is a reflection of that. Many call it art I think it was a summary of his life the way he saw it. God bless Johnny Cash and everyone that loved you.
You should watch, "I walk the line" starring Joquim Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. It's the amazing story of Johnny And June Carter Cash. Incidentally, Reese and Joquim did their own vocals in the movie, and did very well.
As apparently rooted in country music as Johnny was throughout his career, he had (has) a huge following and respect from us rockers. No one could deny this guy's ability to command attention when he performed and own the material.
Johnny Cash crossed over into several other genera's earning him the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. He was known for wearing all black on stage earning him the nick name of "the man in black" every time he took the stage he would open with his name "hello i'm Johnny Cash"and then would follow it with his biggest hit "Folsom Prison Blues" his music was known for being about moral tribulation and redemption. but he also made some really comical songs as well. like My name is Sue and the song with his wife June Carter "Jackson" .He served in the United States Air Force. Many of his songs where written about his family situation and the economic struggles they faced. In the 1950's cash fell head first into drinking and drugs. very much becoming the stereotypical rock star. It wasn't until June herself laid down the law that he got clean and straitened up. While he never landed in prison himself his song "Folsom Prison Blues" is probably his most well known song. Because he actually went into the prison and performed for the prisoners. He was also a huge activist for native americans. you really should do some research on him. his life was fascinating any whoo sorry my comment is so long but hope it helps ya know good ole Johnny a bit better
Cash was one of the most influential artists we have had, not just a Country artist. He was known for doing things his way, right or wrong, good or bad. I think he was a man of many regrets, but he probably wouldn't have changed most of them even if he had a chance. Learn all you can about him, he deserves it and you won't be disappointed.
Alot of people are missing a big point of what he was trying to say in his final years. Even when June was alive. This song illustrates his regret. He was, by NO means a good husband to June. He treated her poorly, especially when liquored or doped up. He cheated on her countless times. This is his "hurt". And how he will "let her down". He is realizing, sadly far too late, that he was so focused on building his "empire of dirt" or his fame as arguably one of the most well know musicians of all time, a true Rockstar of his time, that he let it hurt (and nearly destroy) what really mattered the most... June. And though he sees his errors in his old age, that doesn't mean you can get that time back. Or take back that hurt you already caused. This song is one of the greatest legends behind a guitar trying to teach us a lesson in life that he (and most others) learn far too late. That Family and the ones you love are the MOST IMPORTANT thing in this world. Not money or fame or pride or pleasure. This is what makes Johnny Cash so amazing in my opinion. His pain, sorrow, and the obstacles in his life paved a way for him so share a "wisdom" in all of his music that we can learn from.
Yes, he cheated on June with her own sister. Also, he cheated on his first wife with June. His first wife had four of his babies and was a good woman. Apparently, his first wife divorced him for his affairs and drug abuse and was excommunicated by the church for doing so, until he explained to the church that he was a poor husband and they let her back in the club. Now that, that my friend is HURT.
Trent Reznor wrote a great song about his past addictions and challenges. When Johnny Cash did it, it was all that but more of a metaphor for ones end of life and regrets. This song always makes me cry.
When I saw Johnny do this song ,it was like you new it was a song straight from the heart .,anybody knowing anything about Johnnys past now's he lived this live for real and we listened and couldn't help but have tears flow,we just knew it was his swan song
While I love Trent Reznor (NIN) singing "Hurt", when I heard Johnny Cash sing it, it took it to another level. Johnny has always reminded me of my dad (similar childhoods and "redemptions" after marrying..my dad married my mom when I was 6, and adopted me shortly afterward..he was an amazing amazing man and father). My dad died shortly before Johnny released "Hurt". I cry every time I hear it/see this video. Every.damn.time.
Johnny Cash is married to Joan Cash. She is Christian praying women who stuck by her husband thru all his fame and dirt. He accepted Christ years ago. It just took him along time to get there. And you can be sure it was Joan's faithfulness and prayers. Johnny came to realize you can gain the whole world and lose your soul. And surrendered to Christ. You might not realize he was one of the greatest country singers who ever lived. Yet found it a waste when he came to Christ.
I'm sorry about the misspelling. I know the Carter's are a Christian music group. They are very good. The point this Johnny,s version makes. Is simple. Life with out God, Jesus, is short and in vain. I'm not preaching. I'm teaching. And I don't agree with main Street evangelism. God doesn't hate anyone. We all have sin. So for any Christian to attack and point out people of sexual difference. Is really sad. Because the sins of the heart ate the hardest to see. And we all have sins of the heart.
It's such a shame that this great video can only be found one place where the music and video are in sync. Really takes away when watching him sing. I guess his story is not unlike others who grew up the way he did, other than his success in music. Sharecropper parents, dirt poor, abusive dad who after his brother died a tragic death said to Johnny "That should have been you", something he carried his entire life. They do show him visiting his childhood home that wound up being flooded out a couple times and eventually destroyed. He and his wife had strong religious convictions that got them through his drug abuse, and relapses, she never leaving, stayed the course and they got to the end somehow now long apart. A real tear jerker that he gave new meaning to the song. That last view of his hands on the piano always gets me....I guess because I was lucky enough to have parents who lived to their 90s, I've seen those hands many times in life and in my mind.....as gnarled and old as my moms hands got, when I think of them, I see pure love in those hands.
Once he lost his wife, June Carter Cash, he was done and “Hurt”. Nothing else mattered to him at that point and as songwriters do, he wrote a song about his feelings. He was an awesome man and was for the people that were not very popular in society. He was an “out law”. RIP Johnny “The Man in Black” Cash.
First out of the gate! That was actually a cover of Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash is THE man in black. He died of old age, and his wife, as shown in that video, died shortly afterwards. Johnny is simply awesome. He's the every man from every age. He's inspired so many people to go into music, but he's also inspired and revered by many established artists. There won't be another like him ever. Go check his life history on Wikipedia, or watch the movie about him with Joaquin Phoenix.
Johnny Cashs's song "13" hits me almost as profoundly as "Hurt". This guy's voice though. when he sings from the ❤ and his experiences, i mean it's just musical magic to me.
Johnny Cash , the man in black, who never gave inch to the system, never walked a mile he didn’t earn, the outsiders outsider. The prison albums remain to this day 2 of the finest live records made & the American recordings are fitting reminder that he crossed so many cultural borders
Johnny Cash was my grandmother's favourite singer. Sadly she passed away 10 days before my wedding, and at the evening reception we had an entertainer who sang several of his songs (not prearranged, just unfortunate coincidence.) Not a dry eye in the house. I find this hard to listen to yet totally compelling. A true star.
Johnny Cash was everywhere in the later 60's and 70's (and probably the 80's ... that decade is a blur to me). He's a legend. He's a rock star country star. Do watch "Walk the Line", the movie based on his life. He also had a variety show a short time in either the 60's or 70's. He gave free concerts to the inmates in Prisons. When you get time, check this legendary, one in a billion type human being out. The easiest way to get an idea of his rise to stardom is nuking some popcorn and watching "Walk the Line". He's in the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
This was originally done by a band named Nine Inch Nails in 1994. Nine Inch Nails got signed to the same record label as dr. Dre and Eminem and then they ended up signing Marilyn Manson. Call me mister snapple facts
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen this exact same thing happen, in my own family. Loved ones dying of a broken heart. Great song and perfect interpretation by Johnny cash!
After June died he didn't have much left to live for. She died just a few months before him if I remember correctly. She really was his everything. His queen, his soul mate, his heart, his savior. She was the one that helped him get off the drugs and took him back to church. Without her there was no life.
this is a good song but not one of his best in my opinion. there's a whole list of songs I could suggest for Johnny Cash, but I'll start with "A Boy Named Sue" 👌
He died Happy He Changed the World and TV And Music. But He knew All is Vanity. He was A SuperStar over Decades. But He knew From Dust we come From Dust we Return. Bye Johnny Cash we miss YOU. Ill see you in Heaven with JESUS CHRIST. What an Awesome Man. Beautiful Video!!!
I can't listen to this song + video without crying. I feel like Johnny's version has so much more emotion. He lived a long full life with many more experiences, more pain, more regrets than any young person could possibly imagine. Between the references to addiction, depression and ending up all alone, I can relate to it all. I will soon be alone too.
The little white house is his family homeplace in Dyess, AR. It's now restored and open for tours. Each Oct. they have a festival/concert in the field the family sharecropped.
I saw a documentary about Johnny cash. In it his daughter said he called her and asked her to come over and watch a video he had done. She did and after it was over he asked her what she thought. She stated my God dad it's sound's like your saying goodbye and he replied I am. He was sick already and he knew his time was short. Everyone figured he would die first but June had a massive heart attack and she went first. It's sweet everyone is saying he died of a broken heart but the facts are he was already sick and this song was his goodbye song. I loved it because it shows June watching him record this just before she passed. They made a movie of his life called walk the line if you haven't seen it and want a little back ground on him. I first heard Johnny cash when I was around 6 . When he would come on my grandpa would say hey Johnny cash give me some cash. Please
He had a colorful life with a lot of trials. big country music star.. and had his own variety show on TV.. He didn't live much longer after his performance of this song.
Two references to those who had "went away in the end", the picture of his Mother on the wall, and his beloved wife, who passed very shortly before this video was released. John's problems with addictions which haunted him all his life, his children whom he adored... and of course, his music. He was of course a deeply religeous man as well.This video captures all of that in one brilliant snapshot.
Hurt was written by 9 Inch Nails and given to Mr. Cash to sing. The song was released in March 2003. The lady on the stairs watching Johnny Cash sing this song is his wife June Carter-Cash. She died on May 15th, 2003, because of complications from a Heart-Valve replacement. Mr.Cash died Sept. 12th, 2003. So this song came out just 9 months after it's release. A lot of people say that Mr. Cash died from a broken heart after June passed away just about 3 months earlier. Great & Powerful song. He did not die from Suicide. Johnny Cashed passed away from complications from Diabetes. He is buried with his wife in Henderson Memory Gardens in Henderson Tennesse
To me, what makes watching this really tragic is the look June Carter -- Johnny's wife -- gives him late in the video. Just from the look, you can tell she loves him greatly, and that she is concerned about him and is at a loss about what to do, because this is Johnny Cash when he was old and very sick and they honestly were not sure how much life was left to him. All during the shoot for this record and the accompanying video, Rick Rubin (the producer) was worried that he'd just die on them. And you can see it in June's eyes, if you rewatch the video. Its the look of a woman who is expecting to become a widow at any moment. But here's the tragedy. She didn't. About four months after the release of this song, June herself died suddenly and unexpectedly. And it tore Johnny's heart out. I honestly think he just didn't have the will to go on much longer without her, because he was the solid rock upon which he had rebuilt a broken life and without her, he felt he had nothing left.
Cash has thousands of great songs...and at the end of his life, he performs one of his greatest, most stirring songs. He just knew how to interpret a song. Yes, he didn't write it, but Trent Reznor has said: "he owns it now." Modern Renaissance Man -- your intense expression says it all. Cash was quite popular -- once a member of the Million Dollar Quartet: Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
When I saw this in the recommended it made me so happy because not a lot of people acknowledge Cash. The respect you showed when you didn’t even know his backstory or let alone anything about him, really warmed my heart. When I first discovered his music video I couldn’t watch it for about 2 years without crying, he’s such a powerful person & every song of his has a story (even though this is a cover, he did it the best because of the emotion) He’s been through hell & back, definitely watch Walk The Line, it’s a great movie! Thank you for this :)
He was on about love. How love hurts, and how he has hurt people who loved him. Legend. The people who are hurt most, are hurt unintentionally. That's what they call life.
Johnny Cash had a hard life, the life of a country musician in a rougher time, alcoholism, drugs, jail, a fiery but lasting marriage to June Carter of The Cartwr Family, a legendary family country band in the early part of the 20th century. He lived those words, all of them, those lyrics could have come from Cash himself, they matched so well, an amazing, heart breaking song. No, Johnny Cash lived until an old age with his wife, she passed, and he soon followed, she was his life-long love and I think, his anchor, when she left, everyone knew he would soon follow, it was just something you understood, eerie but beautiful, true love.
Johnny Cash is maybe the most honest vocalist ever. Everything he sings seems to come from a place of personal pain and empathy that is just deep and profound.
As mentioned elsewhere, he was heartbroken due to the somewhat unexpected death of his wife, June Carter Cash (she was to have an elective surgery, then passed due to unexpected complications). He owed much of his life to her, as she was the person who literally took him by the hand and helped him get away from the very serious substance abuse problems he was having in the 60s. A good film about their love story is "Walk the Line", starring Jaoquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Cash sang rockabilly (early rock and roll) early on and recorded at Sun Records in Memphis at the very same time as Elvis. In fact, Sun had what people called the "Million Dollar Quartet", with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins all being there at the same time....additionally, Roy Orbison and others were also at Sun during the same period. June Carter was part of the famous (in the 30s through the 60s) Carter Family, with mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters. A well known singer in the 80s was Carlene Carter, June Carter's daughter from her marriage to Carl Smith (a famous country singer in the 50s). Johnny Cash also has a daughter who became a popular singer, Rosanne Cash. Johnny Cash will dealing with diabetes when June died and her death really did take a toll on him...he passed less than a year after his wife June.
Johnny Cash had a rough life from childhood thru adult. Drug addiction and broken marriage. June Carter was his "saving grace". Walk the Line is a movie based on Johnny and June. June passed away and 4 months later Johnny did from heart failure (broken heart). But even though this song is a cover, it is very suiting for his life story. In the end, all he wanted was June. Nothing else mattered to him. Their love story is a topic of many other artists songs.
Oh and thank you for all your reactions. They get me thru the long nights at work 😁
he died from diabetes complications
Don’t forget about his childhood, his brother died and his father blamed it on him and also said that the wrong son died
Tara Tacker When you lose the love of your life when you are elderly, no matter what the true cause of his death (diabetes and heart failure) you stop trying to live so you can be reunited with your love. So yes, I do believe in deaths due to broken hearts. For @DOM10
That was really thoughtful. Didn't know much till now. Thanks.
Very well put Tara, a friend of mine worked for Roseanne as a teacher nanny for her kids, She said the one thing she always waited on was for the phone to ring and at the other end John would say.. hello this is Johnny Cash. So Roseanne I guess told her dad that and sure enough she got the call one day and he said that when she picked up the phone
This song gives me chills, he is considered by most to be the greatest country artist of all time. They say he died from a broken heart bc his wife passed not too long before he did
That is true he very much missed his wife June Carter. His love for her is what most would desire in their Marriage.
As a little kid when Johnny was just starting his career back in the 50's I met Johnny and got his autograph. I was fortunate to have seen him perform twice. He was special.
@@RobertWorthLexus300 that would have been great! I'm 38 never got the chance..when i was young i listen to punk, rap and hip-hop..a older friend turned me on to cash, in late 90s he changed my whole outlook on music and been a fan ever since..the song hurt helped me through my drug recovery...as well as many more of his.
Hey Nathan thanks for sharing your story. Johnny was a great man. I'm glad he made a difference in your life. All the best to you.
Thank you..all the best to you as well.
While this song is a cover. The way he brings his own interpretation to this song make it more powerful to me than the original version. Johnny did that alot.
It's not more powerful, its different. Both are great.
Same deal with hung my head - Sting
The problem with Reznor's original recording, is that he was only 27 when he wrote the song. Go and listen to Reznor preforming it live these days. He's making it his own again.
Yeah, when asked what he thought about Cash's cover of his song, Trent said "it's Johnny's song now". :-)
big guy the fact he wrote such an amazing song at 27 is pretty amazing in and of itself.
Johnny Cash was once asked "Are you a country singer or a rock singer? Or both?" The Man in Black cocked his head stared the interviewer dead in the eye and intoned in that unmistakable baritone of his: "I'm an American singer."
Johnny Cash is one of those musicians that transcends genre. Is it country, blues, rock, or something else? He's Johnny Cash.
Long live the memory of The Man In Black!
@@garionfan1 One artist is in the Rock N Roll, Country, Rockabilly, Songwriters, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Johnny Cash. Elvis Presley is the only other in 4 of the 5 (not Songwriters, of course!). That's a music icon far greater than a country star!
He caresses the closed piano as if a casket of a loved one.
@@FFVison have you heard his cover of Bob Marley's Redemption Song, as a duet with the Clash's Joe Strummer, Country Punk Reggae, truly genre transcending. And Johnny sings it in Bob Marley's Jamaican Patois lyrics.
Maybe I'm just reading something into it but when he closed the piano keyboard, I think of closing a casket and then he rubs the top the way I've seen people stroke the top of a casket.
If I remember correctly.. it was stated that he closed the piano att he end as a symbolic gesture. It was meant to represent the end. He knew his time was coming, and closing the piano was his curtain call.
That's exactly what I thought also.
Yeah I thought that too
THAT was very inciteful.
@ Clyde - Good observation....
This song was originally done by the band Nine Inch Nails. Trent wrote it in relation to his drug addiction and the pain that comes with it. In 2003 it was covered by Johnny Cash as one of the last songs he ever recorded prior to his death. It is said Trent Reznor the lead singer for Nine Inch Nails praised Cahs's version and loved it so much he is believed to have said "this song isn't mine anymore." Both Version are extremely beautiful and heart wrenching in their own ways.
YES! Thanks for what you already said. I wasn't sure of Reznor's exact quote but yeh after he heard Cash's version he gave up writing the song he wrote and said that the new owner was Cash. Classy response from Trent, eh?
Angela Pierce I was reading an article when he did this song and I remember reading that he really didn’t want to do this song but they convinced him to do this song. It was a wonderful cover and I sure do miss his music. He is (and always will be) a idol I look up to. Many of my songs that I have written have been influenced by JC and Elvis. Not to mention my grandpa played with J.C. when he was playing in Memphis before he got big. They grew up very close to one another. J.C. is from Dyess Arkansas and my grandpa was born in Dixie Arkansas
I think it was Reznor's manager or someone like that after he heard Cash's version said Trent was born to write that song, but Cash was born to sing it.
plus they filmed and recorded it all from his hospital room...
I was at a Nine inch nails show, and heard Trent say that.
This was the song of a dying man. When I first heard this song and the the whole album it sounded like he was saying goodbye. He always had a somewhat dark side. His most popular themes in his music were violence, addiction and redemption. I even think that there was a retrospective of his music called Sin and Redemption. Once his wife June Carter died he seemed like his will to live ran out I think he died a few months after this album was released.
scott mcgregor I said the same thing. He was saying goodbye and that the material things don't matter at the end.
I think he died 7 months after JUne Carter Cash did
He died 5 months after his wife passed on. Truly of a broken heart
Everything about Johnny from Day 1 was dark. I'm a Metal guy myself, but Johnny was the man. He was pure Metal, even if his music wasn't. RIP to The Man in Black....
Johnny Cash's life's tale was one about redemption. He ended up being a very spiritual man and his upbringing and religious background became very strong towards the end of his career. He made a lot of bad choices through out his life, and you can see the pain of those choices through out much of his music. One of the best, if not greatest, story tellers in music.
Agree 100%
Powerful song. I truly believe that he died from a broken heart. He and June were remarkable people.
Penny Tumey He did! He loved June so much!
If you know your Bible, Johnny Cash was the Prodigal Son. He was the man in Black. Died of a broken heart of his wife's passing.
i'm aware of my bible. I luv John but wasn't the prodical. saying that would mean u and I aren't forgived for our sins!!!! prodical son is a parable.Think of it this way, if u was sent to teach 3yr olds how to read, would ya whip out a tome of American Literature?????.....no. sorry dear. J Cash was blessed. def wasn't.
@ NW Monk - Nice observation... (ignore Rebecca).
my bad. thought he wore the color for inmates. not being a smartass. I don't know. luv to learn.
This is not the song of Johnny Cash's life, this is the story of regret most people take to their grave. The man in black just gave it wider understanding through art before his own end.
The reason he covered the song was he fell in love with it. He said it was the most powerful anti drug song he ever heard.
It's not an anti drug song, but its art so read into it what you will. The important thing is the way it makes you feel.
Imagine the person you have loved your entire life, your saving grace. passes away. It has to be devastating. It makes sense that so many older people die of broken hearts shortly after their loved ones pass away.
Originally this was a Nine Inch Nails song from “The Downward Spiral,” but Johnny made it his own. So much so that NIN took a break from performing it, and it is probably better known as a Cash song now.
Johnny was a contemporary (and friend) of Elvis, and although he was a country artist he had a lot of crossover success.
As others have said here, he traveled through some dark places, battled addiction, and had a number of marital problems. His first marriage didn’t survive his rise to fame, in part because he wasn’t faithful. He’d had a lifelong crush on June Carter, of The Carter Family, and when he got famous he met her, and they fell in love although both were married to other people at the time.
June, a singer and songwriter herself, wrote “Ring of Fire” about falling in love with Johnny. Cash recorded it and had a huge hit with it.
That’s June you see with him in the video every time he says “my sweetest friend.”
She helped him beat his addiction problems and after several failed marriages of her own, she consented to marry him. They spent the rest of their lives together, had a son named John Carter Cash, and never gave up on each other.
Although his health was more obviously failing, June died first and then he went soon after. I guess she always was the best part of him and he couldn’t bear to be without her.
This is the best cover ever, of any song or genre. Cash lived a hard life, and he had a dark side to him but June loved him anyway. He put so much emotion into this, he took it and made it his goodbye. Johnny was diabetic and had other health issues but I really think it was a broken heart that got him, he couldn't live without June.
Johnny Cash was an extremely spiritual man and he and his beloved June are at home with our Heavenly Father. Johnny had a tough life and made a lot of bad decisions but by God’s Grace and through His blood, He found redemption and is with the Lord. He sang old gospel like no one’s business and I love listening to him no matter what he sings. I grew up listening to Johnny Cash with my dad and even after my dad passed away 23 years ago, I always think of him when I listen. I named my black Fender acoustic guitar Johnny. Love your channel. God Bless my brother in Christ. ❤️
He died of natural causes. He was a Christian and he said this song was about his life, his sinfulness, his mistakes but through Christ he was forgiven and because of Christ his accomplishments meant nothing, He died shortly after his wife passed. She was also in the video. Thanks for the reaction.
As others have stated Nine Inch Nails did this originally. When the lead singer and writer of this song found out Johnny Cash was going to do it he didn't think it would work. After he listened and watched this video he was in tears and honored to have Johnny Cash record it! The video was shot in the Cash home in Nashville. June Carter Cash died two months after this video was shot. Johnny follow close behind her!
And then the building it was filmed in burned down.
I had the honor of meeting Johnny and June in about 1998. It was long past the days of Johnny's addiction and wild lifestyle. He had long-since turned his life to Christ. They were absolutely the sweetest couple. Warm, friendly, down-to-earth and humble. The one thing you could tell, more than anything, was how much they loved each other. June still looked at him, the way a young girl looks at her first love...and Johnny treated her with amazing tenderness. We chatted for about 10 minutes and I will never forget it...even if I live to be a hundred. For your benefit MRM, Johnny was as big as they come. He is in both the country and rock & roll halls of fame. He was an international star and transcended genre...or really any box someone tried to put him in. Movie actor, host of a popular TV variety show, gold and platinum albums, sold out arena shows...Johnny did all of that...a true piece of Americana.
This video won a Grammy. It was a Nine Inch Nails song but Johnny Cash's version is way more powerful and he changed some lyrics for his own version. Johnny Cash passed away months after this song/video was released. He was a legend.
As I saw in some of the comments (Didn't read them all) this is a cover of a Trent Reznor song (Nine Inch Nails) when Trent heard Johnny's rendition, Trent said it was no longer his song. The song now belongs to Johnny Cash.
You saw it but repeated it anyway
This song always seems to make me well up in tears, everytime I hear it. At the time the song was released, Johnny had just lost his wife, June Carter-Cash (also famous), just a few months before. You could tell he was getting ready to leave the world too. This song just sounded to me like he was singing his own funeral march!
I was surprised to later learn that this was a cover of a Nine-Inch-Nails song, because it sounded like it was tailor-made for his life. Even Trent Reznor of the NIN thought this version of the song just had come out of a different soul.
To cap off the sadness of both June and Johnny passing away in the months following Johnny recording this song, the "House of Cash' where most of this was filmed burned to the ground, and all relics and memorobilia were lost...it happened in 2007...rest in peace June and Johnny...the memory of you will live on...
Cash led a hard life. Born poor. Achieved success fought alcohol and drug addiction and in the end he saw all his life from past to present and in opinion was singing about it and all the mistakes he made
Johnny was heartbroken when June died and it wasn't long after she passed that he died. His final public interview was so touching. He was a humble man who had a hard life.
Powerful interpretation. You could feel him reflecting over his life, and the challenges he had to overcome. He passed away a few months after the release of this video. Johnny was and is a music legend. RIP😢
He started Rock n Roll with Elvis Presley at Sun Records. Then he became the main Country Music singer from the 1950's - 1970's. His wife died a few years before and he died just after this video. It was released after he died and it went Platinum. Many Rap and Hip Hop stars gave tribute to Johnny Cash as a main influence on their music. My eyes tear when I watch this, especially when he shows Christ being crucified and he sings, you can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
Know him growing up in Jamaica. First saw him in concert there Dec.14, 1974 at the Rosehall Intercontinental Hotel officials opening, then 3 times in Miami including his last show. Not many people knew he lived in Jamaica for 30 yrs. Last few years he will be there every winter. When Waylon Jennings passed, he was very hurt, but Cash didn't go down hurting. He went home a spiritual man with grace. Love doing his songs at Karaoke.
These lyrics really have meaning if you know his story. Drug addiction and letting family and friends down. Very sad.
They say he died of a broken heart as his beloved wife of 35 died just 4 months prior
June Carter Cash Died May 15th 2003 ( 3 months after this was filmed), Johnny followed her 4 months later on September 12th 2003 (7 months after this was filmed)
Sadly June's daughter from her 2nd marriage (Johnny was her 3rd and final) Rosie, passed away of accidental CO2 poisoning a month after Johnny died on October 24th 2003
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Johnny Cash was a musical icon - literally. He died from a broken heart. After the love of his life, June Carter Cash (his wife) died - it was only a matter of time. All of his possessions and his musical empire meant nothing (dirt) to him because everyone he ever loved as passed on. He would have gladly found a way to trade every thing of his for his true love to come back. So sad. RIP Johnny Cash - I miss you.
Johnny Cash blew this away! And the emotion June brought to this....watching her man bring us one of his most powerful performances in their last recording together will last forever! Just wow! And btw...they both passed naturally....beautifully lived lives!
Yes!
If you have not watched the movie yet, about his life, titled, "Walk The Line"...oh man, you ought to!!
Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix did a PHENOMENAL job at portraying him...and they did all their own singing.
Many critics have said that Joaquin sounded, eerily like Johnny Cash in his performance.
You should definitely watch it.
💗 In fact... I think I'm going to again!
JT's Channel I couldn’t agree more !
I felt like that movie did not do him justice. I glossed over his 'return to the Lord' in the later parts of his career and life.
Incredible job by Joaquin, also check out the movie Ray, Jamie Fox is Ray Charles reincarnated. Another great one is Garey Busey playing Buddy Holly.
I didn't like Joaquin's portrayal of Johnny Cash's normal speaking voice. He made it sound too soft and high pitch. Johnny had more bass in his regular speaking voice.
I agree. Joaquin is a fantastic actor. None better than him atm.
The last line of the song, “I would keep myself, I would find a way,” tells that he knows he would not be the man he became had he not gone through the pain. He has regrets over those he hurt, and realized that the money and expensive things were really worth no more than dirt. The only things that mattered was a man’s internal worth, and the help and love you give others. Just my interpretation after seeing the movie I Walk The Line then seeing the video. Try the movie then watch the video again, brings a whole lot more meaning to it. Btw, I like the eyebrow thing; person gets some great expressions when you can arch just one brow.
@D C The Nine Inch Nail?!😜
Yes, I love that after the Nine Inch Nails gave this gift to the world with Trent's meaning and emotion poured out, Mr. Johnny Cash poured out his own emotions of loss, pain, anger, etc, in particular because of June's passing. Its subjective aspects make the song that much more powerful and special to everyone!! I struggle with almost everything this song speaks of, it's horrifically painful, but both songs give me hope sometimes to try to keep going on too.
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A country and pop legend,Johnny Cash rocked the world with this video. It was the Last Hurrah for the Man In Black. He had many crossover country/pop hits, especially in the sixties but still stayed successful on the country chart in the seventies. He was also a member of the country super-group The Highwaymen for a few years. You should hear one of his early big hits, the song called Ring Of Fire. There was no one like Johnny Cash!
Cash suffered through years of addictions, personal and financial loss. He married, divorced and remarried. He is most well known for his songs about prison and his support of reform. The Man In Black is a legend for very good reason. His beloved wife, June Carter Cash, passed away just after this video during heart surgery. Johnny Cash followed her 3 months later due to complications form diabetes and what many was a broken heart from his greatest loss.
He did of a broken heart as his wife June of 35 years had died a few months earlier. He was one of these last few singer still around from the days of 1950. His wife died in May and then he died in September of 2003. There is also a Documentary on June's family as she came from a famous one in Country music history before she married Johnny.
Hey its the 75 year old grandma again, He was a Christian but had lost his wife recently before making this video, He had overcome many addictions in his life, alcohol and drugs, he had a very good marriage and was a close friend to to Reverand Billy Graham, This song is a cover song he didn't write it, but I can understand his feelings, as you get older life can make you feel very much alone.Keep up the good work you are doing and please don't stop talking to us about your faith, people especially the young need to hear it.
June passed after this video - she's in it.
June is in the video as Jeff says - she's the woman watching him from the stairs.
June was IN this video so he could not have "lost his wife recently". I see so many people say that but the evidence speaks for itself. She IS A PART OF THIS VIDEO. I know that they jumped back and forth between Johnny and June's younger selves and their older selves so obviously she was in this as her younger self which came from recordings from their earlier lives but she also, as her elderly self, is standing just behind him on the staircase as he sings this song. June died shortly AFTER this video was made and then of course Johnny died a few months after that.
My husband of 44 years died almost two years ago miss him every day so I know how he feels. He is sick and ready to go to his beloved June and his body just stopped fighting. Such a heartbreaking song.
I believe that he is trying to convey love with the added gift of life’s experiences. He’s sharing what all of us should pay attention to, the moment we’re in and quit thinking about stuff we cannot change.
The song is a cover. Trent reznor of nine inch nails wrote it. Johnny cash died shortly after his wife passed.
I was told he wrote it and did the video before he died and it was released after he died.
It's a nine inch nails song, but Trent said that it's Cashs' song after this cover was made.
May be a cover but better than NIN original :p
Absolutely is. Even NIN agrees with that.
fun fact: Johnny Cash was the first U.S. citizen to know that Joseph Stalin had died.
He was a Morse code decrypter during his military service.
This came out shortly after his wife June Carter Cash died. Cash died of what I believe was a broken heart soon after he released this. He gave her a hard life because of his addictions. Despite that they were a loving couple whose sun rose and set on each other. I think he is reminiscing about what he had done to those he loved the most and how he wishes he could go back and clean the slate. What made Cash such a great singer was that life and the mistakes he made. In this video you can see the great Man in Black broken and all but gone. He is ready to go to the Lord. He is ready to see June and other who left before him. I believe this is his best song. Yes he is weak. His voice isn't as strong and deep as it was. We see Cash at his most vulnerable here, the most truthful. While he didn't write it (it is a Nine Inch Nails song) he lived it and I can feel that regret and loss in his voice but I also see it in his face and body language.
Johnny Cash had this unmistakable voice, much like Elvis. His voice made this song so beautiful and haunting. Johnny officially died of complications from diabetes, but really died of a broken heart. June Carter Cash, who is on the video standing on the stairs, died four months before he did. He couldn't go on without June.
Johnny Cash's version of "Swing low sweet chariot" is by far my favorite hymn so much so that I I played it at my grandma's funeral (she introduced me to Cash's music)...btw keep up the good work and reviews :) And yes it was in Logan, which to me was perfect for that movie and character.
Listen to him sing “When the Man Comes Around” if you want to hear a powerful song!
yes!
I have been an admirer of The Man in Black since I was a little girl. He
had a tumultuous life. A hard life filled with pain and addiction. His
wife June Carter Cash meant everything to him. His daughter once told
him that this song sounded like he was saying goodbye. His reply..."I
am"
June died about 2 months after this came out, then Johnny died about 6 months later. When they are in the scene together, it’s almost as if she has passed on but is looking down, watching his pain and regret, while unable to help him. I think that’s the point of this interpretation of the song, him saying that all the money and accolades he received weren’t enough to make up for the heartache he caused her.
Try Johnny Cash song God Will Cut You Down.
i agree powerful song as is GODwill cut you down remarkable ...............GOD BLESS.MELISSA chico says hi
They say he died of heart failure not long after his wife passed not sure the story but he is one of the fathers of country music
johnny cash, when he started, was a rock 'n' roll artist (instrumentation his music used electric instruments and traditionally country was just drums and acoustic strings) , he became country later on when he was part of the highway men which were three other country singer/songwriters (waylon jennings, willie nelson, and kris kristofferson) and when he began to write and sing music with June.
Johnny Cash's *"Sunday Morning Coming Down"* is great song about *despair,* told from the first-person perspective of an alcoholic who has given up hope.
As depressing as that sounds, I think you would like it a lot both for its music and for its deep meaning.
For the listener, the song builds empathy, rather than despair, starting out:
"Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled through my closet, through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair, and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day."
Johnny describes the happy sights and sounds he hears all around him -- a daddy swinging his laughing little daughter in the park, songs being sung inside a Sunday school he passes -- and it only makes him feel like dying -- and wishing he was "stoned" again -- because of his profound loneliness.
Unlike his own life, the song never gets to "redemption" -- only the despair.
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Johnny struggled his entire adult life with addiction. He beat it back with the help and love of true friends and family and in the end I feel like he was alone. Everyone that was a true friend had died before him. He left a legacy but I don’t think he ever truly found piece and this song is a reflection of that. Many call it art I think it was a summary of his life the way he saw it. God bless Johnny Cash and everyone that loved you.
You should watch, "I walk the line" starring Joquim Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. It's the amazing story of Johnny And June Carter Cash. Incidentally, Reese and Joquim did their own vocals in the movie, and did very well.
I love this song. He had respiratory failure complicated by diabetes.
As apparently rooted in country music as Johnny was throughout his career, he had (has) a huge following and respect from us rockers. No one could deny this guy's ability to command attention when he performed and own the material.
Johnny Cash crossed over into several other genera's earning him the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. He was known for wearing all black on stage earning him the nick name of "the man in black" every time he took the stage he would open with his name "hello i'm Johnny Cash"and then would follow it with his biggest hit "Folsom Prison Blues" his music was known for being about moral tribulation and redemption. but he also made some really comical songs as well. like My name is Sue and the song with his wife June Carter "Jackson" .He served in the United States Air Force. Many of his songs where written about his family situation and the economic struggles they faced. In the 1950's cash fell head first into drinking and drugs. very much becoming the stereotypical rock star. It wasn't until June herself laid down the law that he got clean and straitened up. While he never landed in prison himself his song "Folsom Prison Blues" is probably his most well known song. Because he actually went into the prison and performed for the prisoners. He was also a huge activist for native americans. you really should do some research on him. his life was fascinating any whoo sorry my comment is so long but hope it helps ya know good ole Johnny a bit better
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as do I!! Would love to see a reaction to Johnny Cash's "When the Man comes around"... Please?
CASH is King!
Cash was one of the most influential artists we have had, not just a Country artist. He was known for doing things his way, right or wrong, good or bad. I think he was a man of many regrets, but he probably wouldn't have changed most of them even if he had a chance. Learn all you can about him, he deserves it and you won't be disappointed.
Alot of people are missing a big point of what he was trying to say in his final years. Even when June was alive. This song illustrates his regret.
He was, by NO means a good husband to June. He treated her poorly, especially when liquored or doped up. He cheated on her countless times.
This is his "hurt". And how he will "let her down". He is realizing, sadly far too late, that he was so focused on building his "empire of dirt" or his fame as arguably one of the most well know musicians of all time, a true Rockstar of his time, that he let it hurt (and nearly destroy) what really mattered the most... June.
And though he sees his errors in his old age, that doesn't mean you can get that time back. Or take back that hurt you already caused.
This song is one of the greatest legends behind a guitar trying to teach us a lesson in life that he (and most others) learn far too late. That Family and the ones you love are the MOST IMPORTANT thing in this world. Not money or fame or pride or pleasure.
This is what makes Johnny Cash so amazing in my opinion. His pain, sorrow, and the obstacles in his life paved a way for him so share a "wisdom" in all of his music that we can learn from.
Yes, he cheated on June with her own sister. Also, he cheated on his first wife with June. His first wife had four of his babies and was a good woman. Apparently, his first wife divorced him for his affairs and drug abuse and was excommunicated by the church for doing so, until he explained to the church that he was a poor husband and they let her back in the club. Now that, that my friend is HURT.
I’ve been stuck in the bath for 2 hours now watching all your videos... I’m so pruned 😖
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Even though I am far out of the typical fan demographics for NIN, Trent Reznor earned a lot of my respect when he said "that song isn't mine anymore".
Trent Reznor wrote a great song about his past addictions and challenges. When Johnny Cash did it, it was all that but more of a metaphor for ones end of life and regrets. This song always makes me cry.
When I saw Johnny do this song ,it was like you new it was a song straight from the heart .,anybody knowing anything about Johnnys past now's he lived this live for real and we listened and couldn't help but have tears flow,we just knew it was his swan song
His cover of Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is really good, as well.
June, his wife, died 6 months earlier. Some say he grieved himself to death.
That he did
She died 3 months after this, he died 4 months after her.
June did NOT die before this video. She is IN this video as her older self. She died a few months LATER.
While I love Trent Reznor (NIN) singing "Hurt", when I heard Johnny Cash sing it, it took it to another level. Johnny has always reminded me of my dad (similar childhoods and "redemptions" after marrying..my dad married my mom when I was 6, and adopted me shortly afterward..he was an amazing amazing man and father). My dad died shortly before Johnny released "Hurt". I cry every time I hear it/see this video. Every.damn.time.
Can't get much more popular than Johnny Cash.
"I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair."
Nine Inch Nails said Johnny Cash made their song his own.
Johnny Cash is married to Joan Cash. She is Christian praying women who stuck by her husband thru all his fame and dirt. He accepted Christ years ago. It just took him along time to get there. And you can be sure it was Joan's faithfulness and prayers. Johnny came to realize you can gain the whole world and lose your soul. And surrendered to Christ. You might not realize he was one of the greatest country singers who ever lived. Yet found it a waste when he came to Christ.
I think you meant June Carter-Cash
June...not Joan
I'm sorry about the misspelling. I know the Carter's are a Christian music group. They are very good. The point this Johnny,s version makes. Is simple. Life with out God, Jesus, is short and in vain. I'm not preaching. I'm teaching. And I don't agree with main Street evangelism. God doesn't hate anyone. We all have sin. So for any Christian to attack and point out people of sexual difference. Is really sad. Because the sins of the heart ate the hardest to see. And we all have sins of the heart.
And he was a close friend with Billy Graham
June
It's such a shame that this great video can only be found one place where the music and video are in sync. Really takes away when watching him sing. I guess his story is not unlike others who grew up the way he did, other than his success in music. Sharecropper parents, dirt poor, abusive dad who after his brother died a tragic death said to Johnny "That should have been you", something he carried his entire life. They do show him visiting his childhood home that wound up being flooded out a couple times and eventually destroyed. He and his wife had strong religious convictions that got them through his drug abuse, and relapses, she never leaving, stayed the course and they got to the end somehow now long apart. A real tear jerker that he gave new meaning to the song. That last view of his hands on the piano always gets me....I guess because I was lucky enough to have parents who lived to their 90s, I've seen those hands many times in life and in my mind.....as gnarled and old as my moms hands got, when I think of them, I see pure love in those hands.
Once he lost his wife, June Carter Cash, he was done and “Hurt”. Nothing else mattered to him at that point and as songwriters do, he wrote a song about his feelings. He was an awesome man and was for the people that were not very popular in society. He was an “out law”. RIP Johnny “The Man in Black” Cash.
take a listen to the band Rush live in Rio playing the song YYZ.
Anything by Rush, my man
First out of the gate!
That was actually a cover of Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails. Johnny Cash is THE man in black. He died of old age, and his wife, as shown in that video, died shortly afterwards. Johnny is simply awesome. He's the every man from every age. He's inspired so many people to go into music, but he's also inspired and revered by many established artists. There won't be another like him ever. Go check his life history on Wikipedia, or watch the movie about him with Joaquin Phoenix.
She passed first, he passed a few months later from Heart Failure..or heart break. Either way he is a Legend and a gift to music period!
Johnny Cashs's song "13" hits me almost as profoundly as "Hurt". This guy's voice though. when he sings from the ❤ and his experiences, i mean it's just musical magic to me.
Johnny Cash , the man in black, who never gave inch to the system, never walked a mile he didn’t earn, the outsiders outsider. The prison albums remain to this day 2 of the finest live records made & the American recordings are fitting reminder that he crossed so many cultural borders
I think it is about the regrets in his life.
React to George Strait "Babys Gotten good at goodbye" or Kid Rock "Picture"
Jacob Gentry as long as it’s the unedited version of Picture, 100% yes!
Johnny Cash was my grandmother's favourite singer. Sadly she passed away 10 days before my wedding, and at the evening reception we had an entertainer who sang several of his songs (not prearranged, just unfortunate coincidence.) Not a dry eye in the house. I find this hard to listen to yet totally compelling. A true star.
Johnny Cash was everywhere in the later 60's and 70's (and probably the 80's ... that decade is a blur to me). He's a legend. He's a rock star country star. Do watch "Walk the Line", the movie based on his life. He also had a variety show a short time in either the 60's or 70's. He gave free concerts to the inmates in Prisons. When you get time, check this legendary, one in a billion type human being out. The easiest way to get an idea of his rise to stardom is nuking some popcorn and watching "Walk the Line". He's in the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
Can you react to dancing in the sky by Dani and Lizzy
This was originally done by a band named Nine Inch Nails in 1994. Nine Inch Nails got signed to the same record label as dr. Dre and Eminem and then they ended up signing Marilyn Manson. Call me mister snapple facts
You sure it was Tool? I was pretty sure it was Nine Inch Nails.
You're right I get them mixed up all the time sorry
@@SilverbladeDagger fixed it lol
No worries, I get stuff mixed up too. :D
@@SilverbladeDagger I always try to remind myself Nine Inch Nails is the band that doesn't suck. But some reason I always get it mixed up
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen this exact same thing happen, in my own family. Loved ones dying of a broken heart. Great song and perfect interpretation by Johnny cash!
After June died he didn't have much left to live for. She died just a few months before him if I remember correctly. She really was his everything. His queen, his soul mate, his heart, his savior. She was the one that helped him get off the drugs and took him back to church. Without her there was no life.
this is a good song but not one of his best in my opinion. there's a whole list of songs I could suggest for Johnny Cash, but I'll start with "A Boy Named Sue" 👌
Huh? Isn't that like saying that the McDonald's jingle is better than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?
He died Happy He Changed the World and TV And Music. But He knew All is Vanity. He was A SuperStar over Decades. But He knew From Dust we come From Dust we Return. Bye Johnny Cash we miss YOU. Ill see you in Heaven with JESUS CHRIST. What an Awesome Man. Beautiful Video!!!
I can't listen to this song + video without crying.
I feel like Johnny's version has so much more emotion. He lived a long full life with many more experiences, more pain, more regrets than any young person could possibly imagine.
Between the references to addiction, depression and ending up all alone, I can relate to it all. I will soon be alone too.
The little white house is his family homeplace in Dyess, AR. It's now restored and open for tours. Each Oct. they have a festival/concert in the field the family sharecropped.
I saw a documentary about Johnny cash. In it his daughter said he called her and asked her to come over and watch a video he had done. She did and after it was over he asked her what she thought. She stated my God dad it's sound's like your saying goodbye and he replied I am. He was sick already and he knew his time was short. Everyone figured he would die first but June had a massive heart attack and she went first. It's sweet everyone is saying he died of a broken heart but the facts are he was already sick and this song was his goodbye song. I loved it because it shows June watching him record this just before she passed. They made a movie of his life called walk the line if you haven't seen it and want a little back ground on him. I first heard Johnny cash when I was around 6 . When he would come on my grandpa would say hey Johnny cash give me some cash. Please
He had a colorful life with a lot of trials. big country music star.. and had his own variety show on TV.. He didn't live much longer after his performance of this song.
Two references to those who had "went away in the end", the picture of his Mother on the wall, and his beloved wife, who passed very shortly before this video was released. John's problems with addictions which haunted him all his life, his children whom he adored... and of course, his music. He was of course a deeply religeous man as well.This video captures all of that in one brilliant snapshot.
Hurt was written by 9 Inch Nails and given to Mr. Cash to sing. The song was released in March 2003. The lady on the stairs watching Johnny Cash sing this song is his wife June Carter-Cash. She died on May 15th, 2003, because of complications from a Heart-Valve replacement. Mr.Cash died Sept. 12th, 2003. So this song came out just 9 months after it's release. A lot of people say that Mr. Cash died from a broken heart after June passed away just about 3 months earlier. Great & Powerful song. He did not die from Suicide. Johnny Cashed passed away from complications from Diabetes. He is buried with his wife in Henderson Memory Gardens in Henderson Tennesse
To me, what makes watching this really tragic is the look June Carter -- Johnny's wife -- gives him late in the video. Just from the look, you can tell she loves him greatly, and that she is concerned about him and is at a loss about what to do, because this is Johnny Cash when he was old and very sick and they honestly were not sure how much life was left to him. All during the shoot for this record and the accompanying video, Rick Rubin (the producer) was worried that he'd just die on them.
And you can see it in June's eyes, if you rewatch the video. Its the look of a woman who is expecting to become a widow at any moment.
But here's the tragedy. She didn't. About four months after the release of this song, June herself died suddenly and unexpectedly. And it tore Johnny's heart out. I honestly think he just didn't have the will to go on much longer without her, because he was the solid rock upon which he had rebuilt a broken life and without her, he felt he had nothing left.
Cash has thousands of great songs...and at the end of his life, he performs one of his greatest, most stirring songs. He just knew how to interpret a song. Yes, he didn't write it, but Trent Reznor has said: "he owns it now." Modern Renaissance Man -- your intense expression says it all.
Cash was quite popular -- once a member of the Million Dollar Quartet: Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
When I saw this in the recommended it made me so happy because not a lot of people acknowledge Cash. The respect you showed when you didn’t even know his backstory or let alone anything about him, really warmed my heart. When I first discovered his music video I couldn’t watch it for about 2 years without crying, he’s such a powerful person & every song of his has a story (even though this is a cover, he did it the best because of the emotion) He’s been through hell & back, definitely watch Walk The Line, it’s a great movie! Thank you for this :)
The Man In Black always does a wonderful interpretation of any song given to him. This one shows that.
He was on about love. How love hurts, and how he has hurt people who loved him. Legend. The people who are hurt most, are hurt unintentionally. That's what they call life.
Johnny Cash had a hard life, the life of a country musician in a rougher time, alcoholism, drugs, jail, a fiery but lasting marriage to June Carter of The Cartwr Family, a legendary family country band in the early part of the 20th century. He lived those words, all of them, those lyrics could have come from Cash himself, they matched so well, an amazing, heart breaking song.
No, Johnny Cash lived until an old age with his wife, she passed, and he soon followed, she was his life-long love and I think, his anchor, when she left, everyone knew he would soon follow, it was just something you understood, eerie but beautiful, true love.
Johnny Cash is maybe the most honest vocalist ever. Everything he sings seems to come from a place of personal pain and empathy that is just deep and profound.
As mentioned elsewhere, he was heartbroken due to the somewhat unexpected death of his wife, June Carter Cash (she was to have an elective surgery, then passed due to unexpected complications). He owed much of his life to her, as she was the person who literally took him by the hand and helped him get away from the very serious substance abuse problems he was having in the 60s. A good film about their love story is "Walk the Line", starring Jaoquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Cash sang rockabilly (early rock and roll) early on and recorded at Sun Records in Memphis at the very same time as Elvis. In fact, Sun had what people called the "Million Dollar Quartet", with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins all being there at the same time....additionally, Roy Orbison and others were also at Sun during the same period. June Carter was part of the famous (in the 30s through the 60s) Carter Family, with mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters. A well known singer in the 80s was Carlene Carter, June Carter's daughter from her marriage to Carl Smith (a famous country singer in the 50s). Johnny Cash also has a daughter who became a popular singer, Rosanne Cash. Johnny Cash will dealing with diabetes when June died and her death really did take a toll on him...he passed less than a year after his wife June.