This version is pretty good, but the great version came from Johnny's live album "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison." It's at a whole different level, with Johnny's energy kicked up and the actual Folsom prisoners reacting in the background.
true, although for me it's more like "it actually is my style and i love it". Absolutely _cannot_ get into modern contemporary country, but this outlaw type and older stuff is right up my alley. Johnny Cash was always the exception for country music
LOL yep. Pretty much anyone who says they do not like country, like me, but then hears Johnny Cash and says, "This is not normally my thing, but I like it".
Makes me wonder what happened to the young boy who was told by his Mum to always be a good boy, that years later he murdered someone, just to experience death. .
Johnny Cash is an artist that seems to have no boundaries as far as people loving his music. Rockers love him, country people love him, old and young...true legend and ultimate storyteller.
That's so true. I saw him live in 1994 and there were punks, rockers, old folks and young in the crowd. Everyone had a blast and got along great! One of my top 5 concerts of all time!
So true ! I love him very much and June and now I have met a lot more people who like or love Johnny Cash or at least know him. But in my case there are more old than younger people. I am 22 ,I am from Germany and I am very oldschool and proud of it ! 😁😉🙂
Honestly, growing up listening to rap, getting into metal, disco all kinds of music. Johnny Cash’s music is so soothing and makes me feel so wonderful. Even when I’m sad his music picks me up more then anything can
No surprise that Lex likes this. Johnny Cash's music and lyrics have that universal appeal that speaks to everyone. A LOT of rockers like myself are Johnny Cash fans. ✌❤🇨🇦
In 1988, Cash headlined a Saturday night at the hot air balloon rally we have every year in Statesville, NC. I wasn’t there; I was a 22 year old Metalhead, and I had to be at work before 5:00AM on Sundays. But the next morning, his bus pulled up in front of The City Newsstand where I was working, the folding doors opened up, and The Man In Black himself stepped out and into my store. I sold him a package of Goody’s Headache Powders, a Coke in the little glass bottle, and a Car Trader magazine. I was too surprised to be talking to Johnny Cash to think of saying anything else but, “Have a nice day!” as he was leaving. But he was so cool, he knew exactly what to say, he said, in a very deep voice, “Thankya, kindly.” My brush with greatness… Hahaha
"Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" is one of the best concept albums ever recorded. When he did this and "Cocaine Blues" in the prison itself and you can hear all of the prisoners reacting in the background, it's just an amazing sound. You all should listen to the whole album even if you don't react to it. It's one of my favorite road trip albums.
Johnny Cash was an exception to every rule. He was a national institution with an incredibly popular TV show in the 1970s. He was essentially a country singer, but he recorded songs by all sorts of styles of artist, and in some ways you could say he was the first punk rocker - not in musical style, but in attitude. Despite that he had a way of making everyone feel warm and happy. We will not see his like again. You're right about the zydeco-like sound. Try his songs "I walk the line", "Jackson" (recorded with his wife June Carter Cash, a member of the Carter family - country music royalty), or, for his fun side, "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece at a Time".
This takes me way back. I was raised on this. 58 years old and this reminds me of the smell of the cabinet "hi-fi" when it got over heated from playing all those records. This is close to the first song I had memorized. I was around six, I guess.
The clickety clack, clickety clack is the train on the tracks sound...and while this song features a train, this beat/rhythm was featured on the majority of Johny Cash songs in some manner....You definitely need to check out more of him. Johny Cash was The Man in Black and one of the greatest American composers and performers. A genuine hero of working class and oppressed people who was never afraid to kick down a door(or kick in a stage light)...Check out "I Walk The Line" and "Hurt" .
That sound came from Johnny's guitar, they were a trio called the Tennessee Three with no drummer, Cash and Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass. Perkins was the lead guitarist, where as Cash provided the rhythm. It was a trademark sound of Cash's rockabilly era with Sun Records.
1000% I just recommended ,Hurt. Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue. Then you go into The Highwaymen. So much to treat the ears and to treasure.
Outlaw country music! You need to see more of this genre. Other good ones are Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Cole, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, , and many others. Its a mix of country music, rockabilly, honky tonk and blues. Rebel cowboy music. Big during the '60s, '70s, and early '80s. Johnny Cash was well respected by punk rock (influenced (cowpunk groups like Violent Femmes, Social Distortion, etc), metal, rock, and rappers. Many of Cash's songs have been covered over the years as well.
We all love how raw Johnny Cash was. His music reminds me of the first band my dad played in. They cut a couple of 45s, the B side on one from 1960 they did a cover of Kaw-liga where you can tell that musically they were more influenced by Cash than Hank Williams. We played those 45s to death when we were kids.
Merle Haggard was there when Cash performed and Merle later became major recording star with great songs, Mama Tried, Sing me Back HOme, My favorite The Fighting side of Me
I always watch peoples reaction to the part in the lyrics where he says he shot a man just to watch him die and Brad's raised eyebrows said it all... Peace you two & Godspeed...
RIP JOHNNY CASH!! My Dad played his 63 Fender Strat & sang Johnny Cash Elvis George Jones Merle Haggard Willie Waylon Jennings Conway Twitty All the legends.... I miss my dad so much He just passed away to Covid age 73 a year ago! Elvis music and country music is healing to me RIP DAD!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU
he never played a fender strat, his lead guitarist luther perkins did however, johnny only played acoustic gibson j200, martin d-35, fender malibu etc.
I get the similarities between the beats of Zydeco and this. It's cool you mention Zydeco. I'm from Lafayette, LA and I'm a HUGE zydeco fan. Nothing makes me happier than to Zydeco (dance) with my wife to a Keith Frank gig. I understand why we haven't exported it to a large scale, due to some of it being in French/English slang, but I wish more of the country could experience the joy of dancing at a Zydeco gig. The music and the people become one in ways that I've never experienced at other live music events. I'm sure my bias is coming due to my Cajun/Creole roots.
One of his early songs. He always had empathy for the underdog, especially inmates. He was straight up country back then and truly never left his roots. People opened up to a style they thought they didn't like! I was one of them. Thanks to my Momma, I got introduced to him.
This is a great song. One of the most covered songs ever probably. Metal covers, punk covers, famous bands, not so famous bands. And most of them i love. A lot of people give covers a bad name thinking it's a no talent ass clown trying to steal a hit. But usually it's the opposite. A tribute, an homage, a salute to a great song. When one artist tips his hat to another it's respect. Johnny wrote a gem when he wrote this.
Oh HELL yeah Lex!! I cannot remember a time when Johnny Cash's music and image was not in my life. He was EXACTLY like that black-sheep Uncle you couldn't wait to see at your family get togethers. He had the BEST stories, scars because he had lived an interesting life, and manned the grill like NOBODY's business!! He WAS American music to me more than any other single artist I can name. I feel so lucky to have seen him in concert several times before his health declined and he eventually passed. God Bless Johnny Cash and his legacy!!
I have said it to many people,Johnny Cash was the first white rapper. I know that rap wasn't even a genre at that time,but if you listen to the songs he did and how he sang them he was rappin'
Johnny Cash’s voice is a piece of Americana, instantly recognizable like his close friend Willie Nelson or Louis Armstrong. You can hear the history in a voice like that…..
Lex, the sound that you are asking about is a combination of a bass fiddle and an acoustic guitar. With the stand up bass, what some country and early rock and roll players would do was tune their instruments down two or 3 keys so when they picked notes, the strings would slap against the neck, for a percussive effect. Also, Johnny Cash, though I don't think that he did it here, would place the bottom of his palm against the strings to give his playing a more percussive sound as well. He did this in I Walk The Line, the recording. In those days, many performers of this genre did not employ snare drums in their act
This is some old school outlaw country music jaja. Its like rockabilly, rock and country music combined with rebellious lyrics. Punk rockers, hip hop heads, rockers love Johnny Cash, tbw. Many bands cover his songs too. More outlaw country artists are Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Krisstopherson, Hank Williams, David Allan Coe, Margo Price, etc.
You can never go wrong with Johnny Cash that's for sure. Sometime you should check out his two live prison albums. San Quentin and Folsom Prison. You get to hear the audience response to these songs. I love the old train songs and they capture it perfectly. Sometimes Johnny would weave wax paper between his strings to get that plunky sound but most of us just use the palm of our picking hand to do some partial muting of the strings. He has tons of great storytelling songs but one of the greatest is his cover of the old classic John Henry. It's about mining culture and the advent of the steam drill in mining which slowly replaced the tough burly men that would swing pickaxes all day until their backs went out. It's absolutely fantastic and his version is killer. He had a ton of great train songs like Orange Blossom Special and so forth, but one of my favorite is a cover of another hit but I love his version of it. It's called The Spirit of New Orleans, which was a real train line that ran in the south. Every verse packs a million images into it and it's a bit wistful about the dying days of the locomotive for heavy passenger travel.
Oh yeah, we covered this in our Honky Tonk band for a long time and we did it more up-tempo and made it our own but we still kept the same texture and feel. I would take the first guitar solo, the pedal steel would take the second one, and then we would play the third one together. Our frontman had the voice to carry it off as well. It was typically one of the handful of songs that we had that would drive the audience into a frenzy and they went from just having a good time dancing to going nuts. Women dancing on bar tops and tables and so forth. What a blast. You can't go wrong with Johnny Cash.
That sound is Johnny Cash’s signature sound. You will hear that beat in about every one of his songs. For the Bee Gee’s, their signature sound came from driving over an old bridge. I’m glad you guys took a risk on these older artists and especially country. Johnny Cash was a little before his time. He crossed forbidden barriers and didn’t care. He has a fun hit, “I’ve Been Everywhere”
This song has a simple 12 bar blues chord progression, I don't know what key it's in but I've played it as a blues in E to the Rythm of Chuck berry's Johnny B Goode in E blues, then I can flawlessly transition from one to the other at will, it's a cool party trick. 12 bar blues shuffle in E is a good place to start with guitar because there's literally thousands of songs and you can play Rythm guitar to them all with very little variation.
Jonny Cash is one of the corner stones of Rock and Roll. In his earliest day's he played with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other early stars (1955-1959ish). It's hard to imagine now, but some of his earliest songs was considered "rock" back then. In the 60's his music drifted into more of a country and gospel sound. Jonny Cash is universally loved by music lovers of all kinds... country, gospel, rock, rap, punk, grunge, hippies, bikers, young, and old. You should DEFFINATLY check out the video for "God's going to Cut You Down". The video was filmed after he passed away. When people found out that a video was being made for this song, everyone that was anyone wanted to be part of the video. The video has Hollywood stars, country singers, rap artists, rock stars, all singing along while Jonny's voice belts out. Sooo many people wanted to show their love and respect for Jonny Cash, that his video is filled with dozens of artist and actors. Jonny himself is never shown in the video, only the people who loved and admired him.
Johnny Cash is my favorite musician of all time. The man and his guitar. He was such a force of American pain and pride. God centered in his late stages but remained true. My inspiration to play music at all.
Johnny Cash wrote this because of a movie he had seen. Once the song was released and got radio play he started receiving a ton fan mail from prison inmates. He arranged prison performances for inmates and ended up recording a live album, Live At Folsom Prison. The story is… he came on stage and told the inmates they were doing a live recording and he said “you all can’t say shit or damn or anything like that” and of course the crowd went wild. He fought with record execs and everyone did NOT want him to do this. The album immediately went #1 on country charts and #13 on pop charts and also in top 10 on international record charts. It’s basically a career defining moment for Johnny Cash.
This was the version I knew as a kid. It was released the year before I was born. The live version didn't come out until 1968, thirteen years after the studio version. Cocaine Blues is a good one. He kills someone in it too.
Outlaw country 🎶 music. Gangster country music. Lot of punk rockers, rappers, rockers, etc loved Cash, too. His songs are covered a lot, too. Ya, like Zydeco washboard sound.
Definitely a must is Cash's many gospel songs when introducing a new listener. He carried the bad boy image, like Elvis was hooked on drugs (road life was hard), and found redemption thru June Carter. The Carter family was famously musical. Johnny and June had a special love for her to repeatedly forgive and take him back, until the day that John realized what he had.
Hey guys. I grew up going to school and listening to Johnny Cash every morning on the school bus my father drove. I became a rock music fan throughout my life but my all time favourite singer was Johnny. His voice was so authentic. He was not perfect and never pretended he was. He was a man of the people. You love his voice and vibe even though it’s not the type of music you would normally listen to.
Yes Johnny was aOG. OG triple triple from that same prison.. she did not forget what it was like to be there. So he would come back and entertain them. Even brought his beautiful long haired wife June Carter Cash to sing with him I saw them live in Kansas City Kansas back in 1979 loved it
He was a seminal artist, spiritual role model, and a cult of personality. I like Big River and Sunday Morning Coming Down, but Delia's Gone was his comeback hit with the new generation, and Hurt "made music videos a legitimate art form" Rolling Stone. Everybody does a reaction to that one.
Johnny never went to prison though he was arrested for vagrancy, he'd been picking flowers and having no money in his pocket. He partied harder than most rock stars. A reaction nobody has done "Tales From The Tour Bus". It's crazy. Waylon Jennings was a mad man, Prince stories, James Brown rolling up on his bassist Boots Collins and other band members smoking a joint, except it was wet. (PCP) They were scared to say anything as James ran a strict band and they needed the gig. James Brown falls in love with PCP. Crazy show.
the simple but effective guitar played by Luther perkins together with Marshall grant on the double bass made the rhythm section sound like a moving train. they later added a drummer W.s. holland and that was enough.
Love these two!!! My favorite part was @1:40, when Brad says "I can't play anything", Lex say "Right" :-). Shows a couples moment when one person is talking and the other is mentally someplace else and just agreeing to everything. LMAO!!! 2 of my favs on RUclips!!!
I wish he was my uncle! “Hey Uncle Johnny, let me ‘barrow’ $10,000.”🤣 Always loved Mr. Cash. His music is simple, easy to understand and down to earth.
Oh my God, Lex, you are too cute. I love you reaction to the songs. I love the horse riding movement you were doing on this one. Great. I'm from San Antonio, and Johnny spent some time here at one of the bases, but I was never a huge fan of his. Till right before his death, I realized what a huge talent this man was. Now I am a big fan and feel like he was a major star as he should be. Love Johnny Cash, and his music. Love you too Lex...and Brad. Lol.
This is a metaphor. He wrote it before he was famous. He joined the Air Force. It was the days of the draft, so he joined the Air Force and they sent him to Germany. While in Germany, he saw a documentary on Folsom Prison. A prison with a passenger train that passes by. He felt it was a metaphor on his life. He was stuck in one place (prison or Germany) being forced to watch the world go on without him. That is why this song resonated with people. Not because they were all criminals. But the average guy felt he was stuck in his circumstances, watching the world move pass.
I know that this has nothing to do with Johnny Cash but this is how my train of thought works. Johnny Cash - Charlie Daniels, Charlie Daniels - Devil went down to Georgia, Devil went down to Georgia - OMG you have to hear the cover of Devil went down to Georgia that Steve Ouimette did. Anyone who is a fan of amazing guitarists has to check out Steve Ouimette.
You must hear both Johnny Cash live prison albums. And the Merle Haggard one. Before you die. You have time. Both are legend and were hits on the radio.
FYI, Cash played Rhythm Guitar, when he had the Tennessee Three backing him. When playing by himself, he would put a piece of Paper high up on the strings, cause to him it sounded like a Snare, and he liked the sound of a Snare
I was told years ago that when Johnny Cash first started out recording for whatever the reason the backup people failed to show up so Johnny took a couple of people,showed them a couple of chords and told them to just repeat them until he quit playing. Supposedly that’s how he got his back up group the Tennessee Two, who later became the Tennessee Three but for a long time his songs had that simple repeated rhythm in the background until the performers learned how to play guitar.
This version is pretty good, but the great version came from Johnny's live album "Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison." It's at a whole different level, with Johnny's energy kicked up and the actual Folsom prisoners reacting in the background.
And Johnny taking the piss with the guards on the album lol, and his San Quentin live album too
Cash is always better live
Agree 100%.
When they cheer when he says about shooting the man in Reno... brilliant!!
Absolutely this!
"It's absolutely not my style but I like it."
That's an almost universal reaction to Johnny Cash.
He was a man telling a man's story. Hard not to get on that wavelength.
true, although for me it's more like "it actually is my style and i love it". Absolutely _cannot_ get into modern contemporary country, but this outlaw type and older stuff is right up my alley. Johnny Cash was always the exception for country music
Yes. Yes it is cause Johnny Cash is the shiznit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL yep. Pretty much anyone who says they do not like country, like me, but then hears Johnny Cash and says, "This is not normally my thing, but I like it".
Johnny Cash, The Man In Black, a true American legend and treasure. RIP Johnny.
Check out Zappa doing Ring of Fire live on Greatest Band You Never Heard...album.👍
"I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die" has got to be one of the coldest things ever written
Makes me wonder what happened to the young boy who was told by his Mum to always be a good boy, that years later he murdered someone, just to experience death.
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True but I think his Delias Gone would give it a good run for it's money, MTV banned that one.
True that.
"I commented a deep thought on RUclips, just to watch it die"
Got me wondering they stayed emotionless through it, and am thinking they are illiterate 😂😂😂
Johnny Cash is an artist that seems to have no boundaries as far as people loving his music. Rockers love him, country people love him, old and young...true legend and ultimate storyteller.
if you don't love him it's a problem lol
That's so true. I saw him live in 1994 and there were punks, rockers, old folks and young in the crowd. Everyone had a blast and got along great! One of my top 5 concerts of all time!
The original “ OG”. There will Only be one Jonny Cash
So true ! I love him very much and June and now I have met a lot more people who like or love Johnny Cash or at least know him.
But in my case there are more old than younger people. I am 22 ,I am from Germany and I am very oldschool and proud of it ! 😁😉🙂
I believe there is only one requirement to love Johnny Cash: have a pulse.
There's a reason Johnny Cash is beloved by almost everyone, from rappers and rockers, grunge and R&B and punk.
Pink or punk?
@@jeffreekoch9298 punk, thanks.
Honestly, growing up listening to rap, getting into metal, disco all kinds of music. Johnny Cash’s music is so soothing and makes me feel so wonderful. Even when I’m sad his music picks me up more then anything can
No surprise that Lex likes this. Johnny Cash's music and lyrics have that universal appeal that speaks to everyone. A LOT of rockers like myself are Johnny Cash fans.
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Johnny Cash is all our grandpa. His music unites punks, metalheads, hip-hop heads, etc.
Man had a gift!
In 1988, Cash headlined a Saturday night at the hot air balloon rally we have every year in Statesville, NC.
I wasn’t there; I was a 22 year old Metalhead, and I had to be at work before 5:00AM on Sundays.
But the next morning, his bus pulled up in front of The City Newsstand where I was working,
the folding doors opened up, and The Man In Black himself stepped out and into my store.
I sold him a package of Goody’s Headache Powders,
a Coke in the little glass bottle, and a Car Trader magazine.
I was too surprised to be talking to Johnny Cash to think of saying anything else but,
“Have a nice day!” as he was leaving.
But he was so cool, he knew exactly what to say, he said, in a very deep voice,
“Thankya, kindly.”
My brush with greatness…
Hahaha
LoL, great story, I would probably shit my pants too if I woulda had an encounter with him
"Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" is one of the best concept albums ever recorded. When he did this and "Cocaine Blues" in the prison itself and you can hear all of the prisoners reacting in the background, it's just an amazing sound. You all should listen to the whole album even if you don't react to it. It's one of my favorite road trip albums.
Johnny Cash was an exception to every rule. He was a national institution with an incredibly popular TV show in the 1970s. He was essentially a country singer, but he recorded songs by all sorts of styles of artist, and in some ways you could say he was the first punk rocker - not in musical style, but in attitude. Despite that he had a way of making everyone feel warm and happy. We will not see his like again. You're right about the zydeco-like sound. Try his songs "I walk the line", "Jackson" (recorded with his wife June Carter Cash, a member of the Carter family - country music royalty), or, for his fun side, "A Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece at a Time".
Johnny has his own sound. A true inventive genius. Check out "I walk the line". Cash was considered rockabilly by many in the 50s.
Y'all need to check out the live version Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash live at San Quentin
You two should be given an honorary degree in music history. What an education you have given yourselves. Congrats. I enjoy your reactions.
Johnny Cash is one of the most Transcendent and universally liked artists of all time. Cannot Define his style. That voice is indescribable.
This takes me way back. I was raised on this. 58 years old and this reminds me of the smell of the cabinet "hi-fi" when it got over heated from playing all those records. This is close to the first song I had memorized. I was around six, I guess.
The Man in Black. An American Icon. RIP. So many Artist’s influenced by Him, whether they knew or not.
A great Johnny Cash song and a great song for the Outlaw stream. Also check out I Walk the Line and God's Gonna Cut You Down.
The clickety clack, clickety clack is the train on the tracks sound...and while this song features a train, this beat/rhythm was featured on the majority of Johny Cash songs in some manner....You definitely need to check out more of him. Johny Cash was The Man in Black and one of the greatest American composers and performers. A genuine hero of working class and oppressed people who was never afraid to kick down a door(or kick in a stage light)...Check out "I Walk The Line" and "Hurt" .
Don't forget "Ring of Fire" ...
That sound came from Johnny's guitar, they were a trio called the Tennessee Three with no drummer, Cash and Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass. Perkins was the lead guitarist, where as Cash provided the rhythm. It was a trademark sound of Cash's rockabilly era with Sun Records.
1000% I just recommended ,Hurt.
Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue.
Then you go into The Highwaymen.
So much to treat the ears and to treasure.
That beat is Morse code. He heard it in the army when Stalin was killed.
His Live At Folsom album is a must listen.
Outlaw country music! You need to see more of this genre. Other good ones are Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Cole, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, , and many others. Its a mix of country music, rockabilly, honky tonk and blues. Rebel cowboy music. Big during the '60s, '70s, and early '80s. Johnny Cash was well respected by punk rock (influenced (cowpunk groups like Violent Femmes, Social Distortion, etc), metal, rock, and rappers.
Many of Cash's songs have been covered over the years as well.
We all love how raw Johnny Cash was. His music reminds me of the first band my dad played in. They cut a couple of 45s, the B side on one from 1960 they did a cover of Kaw-liga where you can tell that musically they were more influenced by Cash than Hank Williams. We played those 45s to death when we were kids.
Oh y’all just gotta see the live version of this- he’s playing for the prisoners in Folsom County - really something else! 👍
Merle Haggard was there when Cash performed and Merle later became major recording star with great songs, Mama Tried, Sing me Back HOme, My favorite The Fighting side of Me
I always watch peoples reaction to the part in the lyrics where he says he shot a man just to watch him die and Brad's raised eyebrows said it all... Peace you two & Godspeed...
RIP JOHNNY CASH!! My Dad played his 63 Fender Strat & sang Johnny Cash Elvis George Jones Merle Haggard Willie Waylon Jennings Conway Twitty All the legends.... I miss my dad so much He just passed away to Covid age 73 a year ago! Elvis music and country music is healing to me RIP DAD!!!!! I LOVE AND MISS YOU
he never played a fender strat, his lead guitarist luther perkins did however, johnny only played acoustic gibson j200, martin d-35, fender malibu etc.
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I get the similarities between the beats of Zydeco and this. It's cool you mention Zydeco. I'm from Lafayette, LA and I'm a HUGE zydeco fan. Nothing makes me happier than to Zydeco (dance) with my wife to a Keith Frank gig. I understand why we haven't exported it to a large scale, due to some of it being in French/English slang, but I wish more of the country could experience the joy of dancing at a Zydeco gig. The music and the people become one in ways that I've never experienced at other live music events. I'm sure my bias is coming due to my Cajun/Creole roots.
LOVE ZYDECO!!;)) And, Yes! I agree with you that Johnny Cash’s music often had the Zydeco ‘soul’ In It!;)✌️♥️
One of his early songs. He always had empathy for the underdog, especially inmates. He was straight up country back then and truly never left his roots. People opened up to a style they thought they didn't like! I was one of them. Thanks to my Momma, I got introduced to him.
This is a great song. One of the most covered songs ever probably. Metal covers, punk covers, famous bands, not so famous bands. And most of them i love. A lot of people give covers a bad name thinking it's a no talent ass clown trying to steal a hit. But usually it's the opposite. A tribute, an homage, a salute to a great song. When one artist tips his hat to another it's respect. Johnny wrote a gem when he wrote this.
Oh HELL yeah Lex!! I cannot remember a time when Johnny Cash's music and image was not in my life. He was EXACTLY like that black-sheep Uncle you couldn't wait to see at your family get togethers. He had the BEST stories, scars because he had lived an interesting life, and manned the grill like NOBODY's business!! He WAS American music to me more than any other single artist I can name. I feel so lucky to have seen him in concert several times before his health declined and he eventually passed. God Bless Johnny Cash and his legacy!!
I have said it to many people,Johnny Cash was the first white rapper. I know that rap wasn't even a genre at that time,but if you listen to the songs he did and how he sang them he was rappin'
johnny cashs song writing combined with his unique voice is unmatched
Johnny Cash’s voice is a piece of Americana, instantly recognizable like his close friend Willie Nelson or Louis Armstrong. You can hear the history in a voice like that…..
The live from Folsom version is sooo good. Johnny Cash is the boss! RIP Johnny.
I've always liked Johnny Cash, but I appreciate him more and more as I get older.
Lex, the sound that you are asking about is a combination of a bass fiddle and an acoustic guitar. With the stand up bass, what some country and early rock and roll players would do was tune their instruments down two or 3 keys so when they picked notes, the strings would slap against the neck, for a percussive effect. Also, Johnny Cash, though I don't think that he did it here, would place the bottom of his palm against the strings to give his playing a more percussive sound as well. He did this in I Walk The Line, the recording. In those days, many performers of this genre did not employ snare drums in their act
This is some old school outlaw country music jaja. Its like rockabilly, rock and country music combined with rebellious lyrics. Punk rockers, hip hop heads, rockers love Johnny Cash, tbw. Many bands cover his songs too. More outlaw country artists are Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Krisstopherson, Hank Williams, David Allan Coe, Margo Price, etc.
You can never go wrong with Johnny Cash that's for sure. Sometime you should check out his two live prison albums. San Quentin and Folsom Prison. You get to hear the audience response to these songs. I love the old train songs and they capture it perfectly. Sometimes Johnny would weave wax paper between his strings to get that plunky sound but most of us just use the palm of our picking hand to do some partial muting of the strings. He has tons of great storytelling songs but one of the greatest is his cover of the old classic John Henry. It's about mining culture and the advent of the steam drill in mining which slowly replaced the tough burly men that would swing pickaxes all day until their backs went out. It's absolutely fantastic and his version is killer. He had a ton of great train songs like Orange Blossom Special and so forth, but one of my favorite is a cover of another hit but I love his version of it. It's called The Spirit of New Orleans, which was a real train line that ran in the south. Every verse packs a million images into it and it's a bit wistful about the dying days of the locomotive for heavy passenger travel.
Oh yeah, we covered this in our Honky Tonk band for a long time and we did it more up-tempo and made it our own but we still kept the same texture and feel. I would take the first guitar solo, the pedal steel would take the second one, and then we would play the third one together. Our frontman had the voice to carry it off as well. It was typically one of the handful of songs that we had that would drive the audience into a frenzy and they went from just having a good time dancing to going nuts. Women dancing on bar tops and tables and so forth. What a blast. You can't go wrong with Johnny Cash.
That sound is Johnny Cash’s signature sound. You will hear that beat in about every one of his songs. For the Bee Gee’s, their signature sound came from driving over an old bridge. I’m glad you guys took a risk on these older artists and especially country. Johnny Cash was a little before his time. He crossed forbidden barriers and didn’t care. He has a fun hit, “I’ve Been Everywhere”
Johnny Cash is a giant…
Check out “Jackson” duet with his wife June Carter, she’s in the background in the video of his version of “Hurt” by NIN..
She's so adorable. She doesn't even understand how deep this song is. Killing someone and going to PRISON for that
This song has a simple 12 bar blues chord progression, I don't know what key it's in but I've played it as a blues in E to the Rythm of Chuck berry's Johnny B Goode in E blues, then I can flawlessly transition from one to the other at will, it's a cool party trick.
12 bar blues shuffle in E is a good place to start with guitar because there's literally thousands of songs and you can play Rythm guitar to them all with very little variation.
She looked so cute when she began diggin it and 💃 . She looked like a cute little girl riding her first broomstick 🧹 horse, straight cheesin. 😃😃😁
Love Johnny Cash!!! So many great songs!!
Jonny Cash is one of the corner stones of Rock and Roll. In his earliest day's he played with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other early stars (1955-1959ish). It's hard to imagine now, but some of his earliest songs was considered "rock" back then. In the 60's his music drifted into more of a country and gospel sound. Jonny Cash is universally loved by music lovers of all kinds... country, gospel, rock, rap, punk, grunge, hippies, bikers, young, and old. You should DEFFINATLY check out the video for "God's going to Cut You Down". The video was filmed after he passed away. When people found out that a video was being made for this song, everyone that was anyone wanted to be part of the video. The video has Hollywood stars, country singers, rap artists, rock stars, all singing along while Jonny's voice belts out. Sooo many people wanted to show their love and respect for Jonny Cash, that his video is filled with dozens of artist and actors. Jonny himself is never shown in the video, only the people who loved and admired him.
Johnny Cash is my favorite musician of all time. The man and his guitar. He was such a force of American pain and pride. God centered in his late stages but remained true. My inspiration to play music at all.
Greatest lyric ever written: “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
Even better is when it's followed by the whoop from the audience in one of his live prison albums!
Johnny Cash wrote this because of a movie he had seen. Once the song was released and got radio play he started receiving a ton fan mail from prison inmates. He arranged prison performances for inmates and ended up recording a live album, Live At Folsom Prison. The story is… he came on stage and told the inmates they were doing a live recording and he said “you all can’t say shit or damn or anything like that” and of course the crowd went wild. He fought with record execs and everyone did NOT want him to do this. The album immediately went #1 on country charts and #13 on pop charts and also in top 10 on international record charts. It’s basically a career defining moment for Johnny Cash.
I would have loved to see him perform this at the prison! It was crazy, the inmates loved it!😂❤❤
Yeah, those lucky bastards got to see him in the raw! I bet it was amazing.
Yeah between the grapes and hardcore race politics, I'm sure it was COOL!
You wish you were in prison? I wouldn't even want to live in the year 1953...you're hardcore.
@@pistonburner6448 🤣🤣🤣 Not quite what I meant but touche!
Check out the 'Live at Folsom Prison' and the 'Live at San Quentin' albums, his best stuff is on those two albums.
got to get to the live version from Folsom Prison. Up the manic energy and the crowd loving it. I love Luther's guitar playing on this.
My son is 8 years old and when he was 5 learned every lyric to this song! Still a fav around our house❤
This was the version I knew as a kid. It was released the year before I was born. The live version didn't come out until 1968, thirteen years after the studio version. Cocaine Blues is a good one. He kills someone in it too.
"I'll never forget that day I shot that bad bitch down" is simply a badass lyric!
Johnny Cash was a great singer/song writer. He had so many great GREAT songs, this is probably my favorite.
among one of the first songs i learned to play on a guitar as a teen. 3 chords.....E, A, and Bb (B flat)
Outlaw country 🎶 music. Gangster country music. Lot of punk rockers, rappers, rockers, etc loved Cash, too. His songs are covered a lot, too. Ya, like Zydeco washboard sound.
Try "God's gonna cut you down" from Johnny Cash. It has a more modern sound with his unique voice. It's really great.
Definitely a must is Cash's many gospel songs when introducing a new listener. He carried the bad boy image, like Elvis was hooked on drugs (road life was hard), and found redemption thru June Carter. The Carter family was famously musical. Johnny and June had a special love for her to repeatedly forgive and take him back, until the day that John realized what he had.
Hey guys. I grew up going to school and listening to Johnny Cash every morning on the school bus my father drove. I became a rock music fan throughout my life but my all time favourite singer was Johnny. His voice was so authentic. He was not perfect and never pretended he was. He was a man of the people. You love his voice and vibe even though it’s not the type of music you would normally listen to.
Man, love her energy, have no idea why these reaction vids make me smile
Yes Johnny was aOG. OG triple triple from that same prison.. she did not forget what it was like to be there. So he would come back and entertain them. Even brought his beautiful long haired wife June Carter Cash to sing with him I saw them live in Kansas City Kansas back in 1979 loved it
He was a seminal artist, spiritual role model, and a cult of personality. I like Big River and Sunday Morning Coming Down, but Delia's Gone was his comeback hit with the new generation, and Hurt "made music videos a legitimate art form" Rolling Stone. Everybody does a reaction to that one.
Luther Perkins is the guitarist. He had a unique playing style that was perfect for Johnny's music.
Johnny never went to prison though he was arrested for vagrancy, he'd been picking flowers and having no money in his pocket.
He partied harder than most rock stars.
A reaction nobody has done "Tales From The Tour Bus".
It's crazy.
Waylon Jennings was a mad man, Prince stories, James Brown rolling up on his bassist Boots Collins and other band members smoking a joint, except it was wet. (PCP)
They were scared to say anything as James ran a strict band and they needed the gig.
James Brown falls in love with PCP.
Crazy show.
So many different types of people who you would never imagine liking JOHNNY CASH love him.
You understand that Johnny Cash is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He is the real deal.
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down...next please 🙏
Johnny was a artist who transcends genres because he loved them all, and they loved him in return.
Kind of like Willie Nelson, crosses boundaries.
the simple but effective guitar played by Luther perkins together with Marshall grant on the double bass made the rhythm section sound like a moving train.
they later added a drummer W.s. holland and that was enough.
This man is a legend. ❤️❤️❤️
I love Johnny Cash singing " Sunday Morning Coming Down ".
Love these two!!! My favorite part was @1:40, when Brad says "I can't play anything", Lex say "Right" :-). Shows a couples moment when one person is talking and the other is mentally someplace else and just agreeing to everything. LMAO!!! 2 of my favs on RUclips!!!
Legend..icon...alpha chad.. all words to describe the man in black! There will only ever be one big Johnny Cash
Johnny signed my arm--I was 5--when he came to our local record shop in So-Cal in the late 50's. Mom was a big fan.
I wish he was my uncle! “Hey Uncle Johnny, let me ‘barrow’ $10,000.”🤣 Always loved Mr. Cash. His music is simple, easy to understand and down to earth.
Oh my God, Lex, you are too cute. I love you reaction to the songs. I love the horse riding movement you were doing on this one. Great. I'm from San Antonio, and Johnny spent some time here at one of the bases, but I was never a huge fan of his. Till right before his death, I realized what a huge talent this man was. Now I am a big fan and feel like he was a major star as he should be. Love Johnny Cash, and his music. Love you too Lex...and Brad. Lol.
Johnnys voice, and stories in the lyrics make up most of the songs
Great reaction Lex, always find your comments fun and entertaining.
This is a metaphor. He wrote it before he was famous. He joined the Air Force. It was the days of the draft, so he joined the Air Force and they sent him to Germany. While in Germany, he saw a documentary on Folsom Prison. A prison with a passenger train that passes by. He felt it was a metaphor on his life. He was stuck in one place (prison or Germany) being forced to watch the world go on without him.
That is why this song resonated with people. Not because they were all criminals. But the average guy felt he was stuck in his circumstances, watching the world move pass.
Just such a great song, this was a hit that put Cash on the charts. Love the sound of the train the guitar work so great and his voice is wonderful
Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison. Classic. "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.."
her energy has me smitten. you both have such good taste in music, great job on the channel
These just something about Jonny that you can’t help but love.
I know that this has nothing to do with Johnny Cash but this is how my train of thought works. Johnny Cash - Charlie Daniels, Charlie Daniels - Devil went down to Georgia, Devil went down to Georgia - OMG you have to hear the cover of Devil went down to Georgia that Steve Ouimette did. Anyone who is a fan of amazing guitarists has to check out Steve Ouimette.
The story in this song is simple but the psychology of the prisoner is immense.
Can't go wrong with Johnny Cash. When he played this actual track in Folsom Prison you can hear the whooping going up. He was a strong male empath.
You must hear both Johnny Cash live prison albums. And the Merle Haggard one. Before you die. You have time. Both are legend and were hits on the radio.
I just found your channel a few days ago and I cannot stop watching your reactions. lol
Worked there for 23 yrs. in Folsom, Calif. Wasnt there when Johnny Cash played there.
Awesome tune. Great reaction you guys
Johnny Cash...BOSS level songwriter and musician!
FYI, Cash played Rhythm Guitar, when he had the Tennessee Three backing him. When playing by himself, he would put a piece of Paper high up on the strings, cause to him it sounded like a Snare, and he liked the sound of a Snare
FINALLY....so cool to see ya get it right for once! Thank you, guys. Peace.
Love you two!!!
My uncle taught me how to play the guitar with this song! Thanks for the reaction
Lex gets good music. Pure and simple.
I was told years ago that when Johnny Cash first started out recording for whatever the reason the backup people failed to show up so Johnny took a couple of people,showed them a couple of chords and told them to just repeat them until he quit playing. Supposedly that’s how he got his back up group the Tennessee Two, who later became the Tennessee Three but for a long time his songs had that simple repeated rhythm in the background until the performers learned how to play guitar.
I think it's awesome that you guys are taking your love for music up to the next level by learning to play an instrument!!!
Johnny Cash is one of the greatest of singers. He was "The Voice."
Absolutely absolutely amazing song think about it all the time play it all the time LOL Johnny Cash legend legend
There’s something you should know about Johnny Cash he sings about prison even though he’s never been an inmate
Imagine buying a ticket in the 50's and watching Johnny Cash,Elvis,Conway,Jerry Lee,Buddy Holly,with Waylon Jennings in his band